136 SILENEiE. (pink FAMILY.) 



§ 2. ITIELANDRIFORlflES. 



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

 Lower leaves obovate to oblong, upper lanceolate. Cymefew-Jlowered; 

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

 tube ; limb pale pink, yellowish below, bifid ; carpophore short ; c&^ 

 sviXt ovate — Summer — Woods; middle zone of Amanus and north- 

 ward. 



§ 3. COI^IPACTiE. 



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

 stem thick, simple or sparingly branched above. Lowest leaves 

 spathulate-lanceolate, the others ohlong to oblmig-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. Reutcriana, 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 Dery 

 short, linear. Flowers subsessile, the lower generally solitary at the apex 

 of the branches, the terminal capitate ; calyx club-shaped, teeth ovate, 

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

 what shorter than carpophore — Summer — Sandy places ; Lebanon, 

 about 1000 m. 



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

 probably an escape from gardens. 



§ 3. LEIOCAIiYCIN-aS. 



7. S, inu§cipula, 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. Liflorescence dichotomous ; all the flowers 

 short-peduncled ; calyx club-shaped from an 

 uml)ilicate base, teeth triangular, acute, white- 

 margined ; limb small, cuneate, 2-lobed ; cap- 

 sule oblong-elliptical, once and a half to twice 

 as long as carpophore — Spring — Fields, along 

 coast. 



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



glaucescent. Leaves obovate, acute, to oblong- „ 



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

 loosely ^ racemed, stibsessile ; calyx oblong from ^^ s. muscipula, 

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

 obtuse, membranous-margined ; limb pink, minute, Upartite almost to 

 hase into obovate-obloug lobes ; capsule ovate, short-stijntate — Spring 

 — Fields and rocky places ; common. 



§ 4. L.ASIOCAl,YCIN^. 



9. _S. sqnamig^era, Boiss. .3 to .5, pubescent-scabrous ; 

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



