144 SILENE^. (PINK FAMILY.) 



panicles. Lower leaves ovate or oblong-spathiilate, tapering into a 

 petiole, upper lanceolate to linear. Caljx 2)y^escent-gla7ididar, .02 long, 

 obconical-cj'lindrical, in fruit club-shaped, teeth triangular, obtuse 

 limb white, bifid to or below middle into oblong-spathulate lobes 

 capsule oblong-ovate, ojice and a half to twice as long as carpophore — 

 Summer — Fields ; lower and middle zones of mountains. 



47. S. A§tarte8, Bl. If .2 to .25, sparingly pubescent-viscid ; 

 stems erect. Leaves puberulent, pale green, those of sterile stems ovate- 

 oblong, acute, petioled, those of fertile linear. Flowers 3-5 ; calyx 

 .02 long, red-veined, glahrous, obconical-cylindrical, in fruit club-shaped, 

 teeth oblong, obtuse, white-margined ; limb white, deeply bilobed ; 

 capsule oblong, as long as or ticice as long as carpophore — Summer — 

 Ruins ot Afka ; Ain Sofar (Lebanon.) Too near the last. 



§ 14. VIRIDIFIiOR^, 



48. S. Alliaiia, Boiss. If .6 to 1, green, pubescent, glandular- 

 viscid above ; stem leafy. Leaves petioled, ovate-obloog, acutish. 

 Flowers of depauperated panicle nodding ; calyx glandular, with 

 branching, green nerves, cylindrical, in fruit glabrescent. club-shaped, 

 teeth lanceolate, membranous-margined ; claws included ; limb whit- 

 ish-green, bifid into linear lobes ; capsule ovate, somewhat shorter than 

 carpophore, projecting beyond the calyx — May and June — Woody 

 zone of Cassius and Amanus. 



49. S. leiicopliylla, Boiss. If .4 to .6, wooUy-canescent , 

 densely tufted at base, stems slender, viscid above. Radical leaves 

 crowded, obovate-spathulate ; stem-leaves linear-spathulate and linear, 

 very short. Flowers 3-5, terminal, long peduncled, nodding ; calyx 

 .13 long, glandular, cylindrical, tapering below, in fruit club-shaped, 

 teeth ovate, obtuse ; limb linear-cuneate, bifid into linear lobes ; cap- 

 sule oblong, long exsertedfrom calyx, as long as carpophore — May and 

 June — Jebel Katarina, (Sinai). 



§ 15. liASIOSTEMONES. 



50. S. longipetala. Vent. 1^ .4 to .6, sparingly puberulent 

 below, glabrous-viscid above. Lower leaves oblanceolate, acute, ta- 

 pering into a petiole, floral lanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Branches 

 of the somewhat one-sided broad panicle long, spreading, 3-7-flowered ; 

 calyx .008 to .01 long, in fiotcer oiconical, in fruit turMnate, teeth ovate, 

 obtuse ; claw ciliate ; limb white, bipartite into long, linear loljes ; 

 csips^lQ someichat exserted, ovate-sjjherical, four times as long as carpo- 

 phore — April and May — Common throughout to 1800 m. 



Var. purpura§ceii§, Boiss. Petals purple — Aleppo. Wilder- 

 ness of Judea. 



§ 16. SCLiEROCAIiYCIN^ . 



51. S, STvertisefolia, Boiss. 2^ .4 to .5, glaucescent, viscid 

 above. Lower leaves obovate-spathulate, acute, petioled ; middle 

 ovate-acute to lanceolate, upper often linear. Peduncles long ; calyx 

 .03 long, cylindrical-obconical. in fruit club-shaped, teeth triangular, 

 acuminate ; claws dilated, exserted ; limb greenish-yellow, bifid into 



