13tt SILENE^. (pink FAMILT.) 



§ 2. MEIiANDRIFORMES. 



4. S. uoctiflora, L. © .5 to 1, pubescent, viscid above- 

 Lower leaves obovate to oblong, ujDper lanceolate. Cyme few-fioicered; 

 calyx truncate at base, with awl-sbaped teeth one-third as long as 

 tube ; limb pale pink, yellowish below, bifid ; carpophore short ; ck^- 

 %\x\e ovate — Summer — Woods; middle zone of Amanus and north- 

 ward. 



§ 3. COMPACTS. 



5. S. compacta, Horn. (g> .3 to .6, glabrous, glaucescent ; 

 stem thick, simjile or sparingly branched above. Lowest leaves 

 spathulate-lanceolate, the others oblong to dhlong-ovate^ connate at lase ; 

 leaves of involucre oblong-ovate. Flowers sessile ; calyx club-shaped 

 from umbilicate base, teeth ovate, obtuse, greenish ; limb pink, ob- 

 ovate, entire ; capsule oblong, half as long as carpophore — Summer — 

 Shrubby places ; Amanus. 



6. S. Reiiteriana, Boiss. (D .6 to .8, glabrous, glaucescent; 

 stem with opposite, slender branches almost from base. Lower leaves 

 crowded, somewhat connate, lanceolate-linear, acutish, the others very 

 shorty linear. Flowers subsessile, the loicer generally solitary at the apex 

 of the h^mches, the terminal capitate ; calyx club-shaped, teeth ovate, 

 obtuse ; limb pink, wedge-shaped, bilobed ; capsule oblong, some- 

 what shorter than carpophore — Summer — Sandy places ; J^ebanon, 

 about 1000 m. 



S. Arnieria, L., said by Tristram to grow along the coast. It is 

 probably an escape from gardens. 



§ 3. LiEIOCAIiYCIN^. 



7. S. iiiu§cipiila, L. .3 to .5, glabrous, viscid above. 

 Leaves oblong-spathulate to linear-lanceolate, 



the floral awl-shaped, as long as or longer than Fig. 67. 



calyx. Inflorescence dichotomons ; all the flowers 

 short-peduncled ; calyx club-shaped from an 

 umliilicate base, teeth triangular, acute, white- 

 margined ; limb small, cuneate, 3-lobed ; cap- 

 sule oblong-elliptical, once and a half to twice 

 as long as carpophore — Spring — Fields, along 

 coast. 



8. S. BeheD, L. .3 to .4, glabrous, 

 glaucescent. Leaves obovate, acute, to oblong- 

 lanceolate. Alar flowers peduncled, the upper Fruiting calyx of alar flower 

 loosely racemed, subsessile ; calyx oblong from °f ^' muscipuia, 

 umbilicate base, inth reddish veins, in fruit inflated, ovate, teeth ovate, 

 obtuse, membranous-margined ; limb pink, minute, bipartite alnmt to 

 base into obovate-oblong lobes ; capsule ovate, shart-stipitate — Spring 

 — Fields and rocky places ; common. 



§ 4. liASIOCAIiYCIN^. 



9. S. squamig^era, Boiss. .3 to .5, pubescent-scabrous ; 

 stems dichotomously panicled almost from base. Leaves oblong-spa- 



