SILENE^. (pink family.) 123 



2 D. multipunctatus, 3 polycladus. 



* * Calyx striate, hut not warty, 



t Linib white, yellowish, or pinh, entire, crenate or dentate, but never 

 fringed or bearded. 



\ Scales 4 or less. 

 4 D. pallens, 5 Judaicus, 6 Auraniticus. 



X X Scales 4-8. 



7 D. lactiflorus, 8 floribundus. 



1 1 Limbpinlc or white, fringed, glabrous or bearded at base. 



X Scales 4-8. 



9 D. Libauotis, 10 superbus, 11 fimbriatus, 12 pogonopetalus. 



X X Scales 10-16, imbncated, elongated from lowest to highest. 



13 D. Sinaicus. 



1 1 1 Limb pinlc or purple, dentate, always bearded. Involucre 



not scarious. 



X Scales 10-12. 



14 D. pendulus. 



X X Scales 4-10. 



15 D. actinopetalus, 16 zonatus, 17 liypocblorus. 



1 1 1 Limb pink or purple, dentate, generally bearded. Flowers 



capitate ; involucre scarious, long-awned. 

 18 D. calocepbalus. 



§ 1. VERRUCUI.OSI. 



1. I>. tripuiictatu§, Sibth. .3 to .4, glabrous, erect, with 

 spreading branches. Leaves somewhat rigid, membranous-margined, 

 ciliate at base, those of branches appressed, with setaceous tip. 

 Flowers solitary at apex of rigid, somewhat incurved branches ; scales 

 4, ovate, with broad, membranous margin, tapering into aiol-shaped, 

 rigid, appressed awns, a little shorter than calyx ; calyx-teeth lanceolate ; 

 limb obovate-cuneate, dentate, Z-lined at base — May and June — 

 Fields ; Acre. 



2, I>. iunltipunctatu§, Ser. % .3 to .5, glabrous, or sonae- 

 what pubescent at base ; stems ascending, simple or sparingly stiff- 

 branched at apex. Leaves ciliate at base, with scabrous margin. 

 Flowers .02 broad, nearly solitary ; calyx .015 to .02 long ; scales 4-6, 

 scarious, pale, ovate, obtuse, ending in a slender, short, appressed awn ; 

 limb pink, obovate-icedge-shaped, dentate, generally dotted with deep 

 crimson spots — May to July — Common in dry and rocky places. 



Var. gracilior, Boiss. Stems slender — Beirut. Amanus to 

 Aint^b. 



Yar. axilliflorus, Boiss. Stems racemose, owing to the subses- 

 sile, nearly solitary, lower flowers — Lebanon. 



