SILENE^ (pink family.) 137 



thulate to linear. Flowers short-pedicelled, in one sided racemes ; calyx 

 ,012 to .015 long, club-shaped from umbilicate base, whitish ; scales 

 with 1-4, oblong, obtuse teeth ; limb white, deeply obcordate ; cap- 

 sule ovate, a little shorter than carpophore — May — Fields ; Aintab 

 to Marash. 



10. S. crassipe§, Fenzl. .3 to .4, scabrous or scabridulous 

 with elevated dots, pubescent. Leaves oblong- 



spathulate to lanceolate-linear, the floral often FiG. 68. 



equalling or overtopping the calyx. Flowers sub- 

 sessile, the alar solitary, the terminal more or less 

 densely cymose, 3-5 ; calyx cylindrical from um- 

 bilicate base, scabridulous with conical papillcB^ 

 especially along nerves, in fruit club-shaped, teeth 

 oxiate, obtuse, membranous ; limb minufe, purple, 

 linear-cuneate, retuse ; capsule ovate, less than 

 thrice as long as carpopjhore — Fields ; common. 

 (Includes 8. gonocalyx, Boiss., see supplement to 

 Fl. Or. Boiss. p. 93). 



11. S. dicliotoma, Ehr. .3 to .5, ^^^^^^ ^, 

 puberulent ; stem stiff, dichotomous. Leaves spa- what densely cymose 

 thulate to linear, acuminate. Peduncles very short ; terminal flowers, 

 calyx more or less hirsute loith bristly papillm along the green, pro- 

 minent nerves, oblong-cylindrical, in fruit oblong, teeth short, lanceo- 

 late, acute ; limb white, bipartite beyond its middle into ovate-oblong 

 lobes ; capsule oblong, with short carpophore — Spring — Galilee. 

 Gilead. 



Var. raceino§a, Boiss. Canescent with crisp hairs. Racemes 

 loose, long. Bracts membranous. Capsule ovate — Spring — Fields 

 to 1000 m ; much commoner with us than type. {S. raceniosa, Otth.) 



Var. glabre§ceiis, Post. Glabrescent. 



12. S. oxyodonta, Barbey. .3, sparingly puberulent with 

 crisp hairs. Leaves oblong-spathulate to oblong-linear, the upper 

 somewhat clasping. Fowers subsessile, solitary ; calyx with broad, 

 green, sparingly pubescent nerves, and lanceolate, acute teeth, ending 

 in a recurved tip ; limb purple, oblong, bifid, into ovate, obtuse lobes ; 

 capsule twice as long as carpophore — April — Plain of Esdraelon. 



13. S. Oallica, L. .3 to .4, sparingly hirsute, viscid above ; 

 stem simple or dichotomous. Leaves obovate-spathulate to oblong or 

 oblong-linear, upper awl-shaped. Lower flowers peduncled, upper 

 subsessile ; calyx rounded at base, cylindrical, in fruit ovate, with lan- 

 ceolate-subulate, somewhat recurved teeth ; limb pink or white, obovate, 

 entire, retuse, or denticulate ; capsule subsessile — Spring — Fields and 

 hillsides ; not rare to 1000 m. 



§ 5. BIPARTITE. 



14. S. Mcseeii8i§, all. Ped. to d) .3 to .4, papillose-viscid. 

 Leaves fleshy, linear-oblong obtuse, to linear acute. Flowers in com- 

 pound racemes or irregularly cymose, more or less peduncled ; calyx 



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