SILENE^ (pink family.) 145 



obovate lobes ; capsule oblong, once and a half as long as carpophore — 

 June — Woods ; Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



Var, steuopliylla, Boiss. .2 to .4. Lower leaves oblanceolate, 

 upper linear. Cymes few-1-flowered. Subalpine and alpine Lebanon 

 and Antilebanon. Aintab. {S. Mahmeliana, Boiss.) 



52. S. Sdiimperiaiia, Boiss. 71 .5, glaucescent-viscid above, 

 shrubby at base ; steais rigid, knotted, forked, long-branch-ed. Lower 

 leaves linear-spathulate, acute, upper linear. Flowers solitary, short- 

 peduncled ; calyx .03 long, nearly nerveless, cylindrical-club-shaped, 

 teeth triangular, acute ; limb linear-cuneate, bifid into linear-oblong 

 lobes ; capsule oblong, adout as long as carpophore — El Bustan 

 (Sinai.) 



53. S. L<il>anotica, Boiss. 21 .2 to .6, glaucescent, somewhat 

 viscid above ; trimk short, naked, woody ; stems slender, leafy ; 

 branches often alternate, 1 -flowered. Leaves oblong-spathulate ob- 

 tuse, to lanceolate and linear acute. Peduncles as long as calyx ; calyx 

 .015 long, nearly nerveless, obconical-cylindrical, in fruit club-shaped, 

 teeth triangular, the alternate ones acuminate ; limb linear-cuneate, 

 bifid ; crown ; capsule oblong, tioice as long as carpophore — August 

 and September — Hebron. Alpine and subalpine Lebanon. 



54. S. Porteri, Post. 2^ (Trans. Linn^an Society, London, 

 1888, p. 426) .1 to .3, tufted at base ; stems slender, 1-3-flowered. 

 Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate to linear and subulate, the upper minute. 

 Calyx .03 long, obconical-cylindrical, in fruit club-shaped, with greenr 

 uh-red nenes, and triangular, scarious-margined, ciliolate teeth ; cap- 

 sule oblong, shorter than .015 long carpophore — September — Alpine 

 region of Ziaretdagh (Amanus) . 



§ 17. BRACHYPOD^. 



55. S. gigantea, L. 2|! .6 to 1.5, pubescent- viscid ; stem 

 thick, quadrangular. Root-leaves densely resetted, obovate-spathulate, 

 mucronate, stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, the floral linear-lanceolate, 

 all pubescent. Panicle long, toith dense, verticillate cymes, the upper 

 sessile ; calyx sparingly-hairy, .005 long, obconical, in fruit oMong- 

 turUnate, teeth ovate, obtuse ; limb white, bipartite into oblong lobes ; 

 capsule .008 iong, ovate, at length ricpturing the calyx, four to five times 

 as long as very short carpophore — June to September. 



Var. Tiridescens, Boiss. Sparingly scabrous-pubescent. Panicle 

 very viscid ; cymes more or less open — Rocky places ; middle zone 

 of Lebanon, Amanus, and northward. 



56. S. s^risea, Boiss. .2 to .4, velvety, grey, shrubby at base, 

 tufted ;^ stems slender, angled, often geniculate below, viscid above, 

 endingina 1-7-flowered raceme-like panicle or raceme. Radical and 

 lower leaves oblong-spathulate, the upper linear. Branches of raceme 

 short, 1-3-flowered ; calyx glandular, cylindrical-obconical, in fruit 

 short-club-shaped, Twdding, teeth triangular, acutish ; limb yellowish- 

 green, somewhat bipartite into linear lobes ; capsule oblong, some- 

 what exserted, four times as long as short carpophore — Summer — 

 Rocky places ; alpine and subalpine Lebanon. 



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