134 DECAND. TR1GYN. 



9. SAPONARIA. 



1. S. officmalis (Soapwort), leaves ovato-lanceolatc, calyces 

 cylindrical glabrous. E. B. t. 1060, 



HAB. Road-sides. Between Dean and Ravelston ; near Rosslyn cha- 

 pel 5 banks of the Esk, above Coalpits j and side of the Mill-Lead, 

 opposite the old bridge at Musselburgh, Maugh. Cliesh woods, 

 Kinross-shire, Mr. Arnott. Fl. July, Aug. I/ . 



One to one foot and a half high, with rather a stout cylindrical stem, 

 Leaves ribbed, opposite and connate. Panicle of numerous large 

 rose-coloured flowers. Limb of the cor. obcordate. Makes a lather 

 with water, whence the name of Soapwort, 



10. DIANTHUS 3 . 

 * Flowers clustered. 



1 . D. Armeria (Deptford Pink), flowers clustered fascicled, caly- 

 cine scales lanceolate downy as long as the tube. E. B. t. 3 1 7 



HAB. In fields near the seat of Charles Gray, Esq. of Carse, Angus- 

 shire, but sparingly, G.Don. Fl. July, Aug. Q. 



One or one foot and a half high, branched upwards. Leaves linear, 

 opposite and connate, slightly pubescent, upper ones acute. Limit 

 of the petals rose colour, with white (not red as mentioned in E. B.) 

 dots, crenate at the margin. 



** Flowers solitary, many on the same stem. 



2. D. deltoides (Maiden Pink)) flowers solitary, calycine scales 

 mostly 2 lanceolate acute, petals notched. Liglitf. p. 22,") t 

 E.B. /.61. 



/3. cal. scales 4, flowers white. D. glaucus, Lightf. p. 225. 



HAB. King's Park, Edinb., Light/, both a. and /3. Blackford and 

 Pentland hills, Maugh. N. bank of the loch of Forfar, and other 

 spots in Angus- shire, G. Don. Rocks near Newburgh, Fifeshire, 

 D. Don. Sandy-know Craigs, Mr. Borrer. Fl. July. I/ . 



A small plant from 6 9 inches high, glaucous. Leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, slightly hairy. Flowers in a. rose colour, with a deeper 

 circle in the middle. 



3. TRIGYNIA, 



11. SILENE. 



* Calyx glabrous. 

 \. S. inflata (Bladder Campion), flowers panicled, cal. inflated 



glabrous reticulated with veins, leaves ovate. 

 . larger, stems erect many-flowered, petals scarcely crowned, 



S. inji., Sm. Comp. Cucubalus Behen, Lightf. p. 226. 



. J5. /. 164. 



3 1 fear the D.barbatus, of which 3 stations are given in the vicinity of Edin- 

 burgh by my friend Mr. Maughan in the Wernermn Trans., can only be con- 

 sidered the outcast of gardens, and not of sufficiently general occurrence to 

 be introduced into a Scottish Flora. The D. arenariius of Lightfoot, p. 22t>. 

 that author suspects is only the D. deltoides. 



