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CARYOPHYLLE.3E. VI. SILENE. VII. VISCARIA. 



* * Annual or biennial. 



245 S. ORCHI'DEA (Lin. fil. suppl. 241.) plant clammy; stem 

 branched, pubescent ; leaves ovate, ciliated, lower ones on short 

 footstalks ; flowers in dense corymbs ; calyx long clavated ; 

 petals deeply 2-lobed, furnished with a lobe on each side at the 

 base, crowned with bifid entire appendages. Q.H. Native of 

 the Levant and the Grecian Islands. Smith, fl. graec. t. 427. 

 Calyx and petals rose-coloured. The petals have the appear- 

 ance of the labellum of some species of Orchis. The S. Atbcion 

 of Murr. p. 413. no. 203. has been considered by many botanists 

 identical with this species, but it is truly distinct. It ought, 

 however, to have been placed in the present section. 



Orchis-like-petaUed Catchfly. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1781. 

 PI. ^ to 1 foot. 



246 S. PSEU'DO-ATO'CION (Desf. atl. 1. p. 353.) plant clammy; 

 stem much branched ; leaves glabrous, lower ones obovate- 

 spatulate ; flowers in lax corymbs ; calyx long clavated ; petals 

 very entire, linear, crowned. 0. H. Native of the north of 

 Africa. Petals rose-coloured. 



False- Atocion Catchfly. Fl. Ju. July. Clt. 1820. PI. \ to | ft. 



247 S. CRI'SPA (Poir. diet. 7. p. 1 62.) root slender ; stem 

 erect, almost simple, hairy ; leaves oblong-linear, obtuse, with 

 curled spinulose margins ; flowers solitary, disposed in close 

 bundles ; calyx long, clavated ; petals bifid. Q. H. Native of 

 Barbary. Flowers pink ? 



Curled-leaved Catchfly. Fl. July, Sept. PI. 1 foot. 



248 S. ARME'RIA (Lin. spec. 601.) plant quite smooth, glau- 

 cous ; stem branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, rather cordate at 

 the base ; flowers in corymbose panicles ; calyx long, clavated ; 

 petals obcordate, crowned. O- H. Native of France and 

 Switzerland. In England in fields, or on banks, or on old walls, 

 a doubtful native. Smith, engl. bot. t. 1398. Fl. dan. t. 559. 

 Cucubalus fasciculatus, Lam. Flowers pink. 



Var. ft, alba (D. C. prod. 1. p. 384.) flowers white. 

 Sweet-William or Lobel's Catchfly. Fl. July, Sep. PI. 1 to 

 li foot. 



249 S. LERCHENFELDIA'NA (Baumg, stirp. trans. 1. p. 398.) 

 glabrous ; stem filiform, decumbent ; leaves oblong or linear- 

 lanceolate, cauline ones ovate-lanceolate, quite smooth, rather 

 crenulated ; panicle simple, corymbose, few-flowered ; petals 

 emarginate, crowned. Q. H. Native of Transylvania on the 

 Alps. Flowers red ? 



Lerchenfeld's Catchfly. PI. decumbent. 



250 S. SIEGE'RI (Baugm. stirp. trans. 1. p. 400.) stem 

 erect, simple, furrowed ; radical leaves numerous, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, channelled, stalked ; cauline leaves 2, linear ; flowers 

 terminal, solitary, or 2-3 in an umbel ; calyx clavated, campa- 

 nulate ; petals obcordate, crowned? Q ? H. Native of Tran- 

 sylvania on the Alps about Rodno. Flowers pink ? 



Sieger's Catchfly. Fl. June, July. PI. i to 1 foot. 



251 S. CONGE'STA (Sibth. and Smith, prod. fl. graec. p. 300.) 

 plant pubescent ; stem rather branched, nakedish, rather clammy 

 near the top ; leaves obovate, obtuse, green, stalked, crowded at 

 the base of the stem ; flowers disposed in dense tufted corymbs ; 

 calyx very long, clavated; petals 2-parted, naked. Q. H. 

 Native of the Pyrenees and Greece. Flowers greenish. 



Crowded-flowered Catchfly. Fl. July, Sept. Clt. 1818. PI. 

 1 to 1^ foot. 



252 S. COMPA'CTA (Fisch. in Horn. hafn. 1. p. 417.) plant 

 glabrous, glaucous ; stem erect, branched ; leaves ovate-cordate, 

 sessile, with 2 large ones like an involucre near the corymb, ap- 

 pearing as if they were connate ; bracteas narrow, shorter than the 

 pedicels ; flowers crowded into dense corymbs ; calyx very long, 

 clavated ; petals oboval, entire, crowned. $ . H. Native of Rus- 

 sia. S. Armeria, Bieb. fl. taur. no. 837. Flowers pink. This 



is very like S. Armeria, but easily distinguished by its entire 

 petals. 



Compact-flowered Catchfly. Fl. July. Clt. 1810. PI. lift. 



253 S. PERFOLIA'TA (Otth, mss. in D. C. prod. 1. p. 384.) 

 plant very smooth, glaucous ; stems slender, filiform, almost 

 simple ; leaves roundish, perforate ; flowers in capitate corymbs, 

 with a 1 -leaved concave involucrum, which is larger than the 

 leaves; calyx rather inflated, oblong; petals small. $. H. 

 Native of the Levant. Cucubalus chlorsefolius, Poir. diet. 2. 

 p. 416. Flowers red? 



Perfoliate Catchfly. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1817. PI. 1^ foot. 



254 S. UNDULATIFOLIA (Mor. ex Spreng. syst. append, p. 

 182.) stem erect, glabrous; leaves spatulate, oblong, obtuse, 

 waved, smooth ; flowers in terminal fascicles ; calyx smooth, 

 coloured ; petals 2-lobed. Q. H. Native of Sardinia. Flowers 

 red. 



Wavy-leaved Catchfly. Fl. June, July. PI. 1 foot. 



255 S. FCE'TIDA (Link, ex Spreng. syst. 2. p. 406.) stem 

 erect, nearly simple, villous, clammy ; leaves ovate, acute, also 

 villous and clammy ; flowers tern, terminal, peduncled, erect ; 

 calyx cylindrical. $ . H. Native of Portugal. This plant 

 ought perhaps to be placed in section Siphonomorpha. 



Foetid Catchfly. PI. 1 foot ? 



f A plant belonging to section Behendntha, which ought to 

 follow S. angustifolia, no. 29, p. 400. 



256 S. DOUGLA'SII (Hook. fl. bor. amer. p. 88.) pubescent ; 

 stems erect, flexuous, slender ; leaves remote, long, linear ; 

 flowers panicled ; calyx obovate, at length inflated, striated, 

 pubescent; petals bifid. 3. H. Native of North America 

 above the grand rapids of the Columbia, and on the western 

 declivity of the Rocky Mountains. Flowers white. 



Douglas's Catchfly. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. The few green-house kinds of this genus thrive well 

 in a rich light soil, and young cuttings of the -shrubby species, 

 planted under a hand-glass, strike root readily. The hardy her- 

 baceous kinds only require to be planted in the open border, but 

 the dwarfer species are well adapted for rock-work. Some of 

 them will not live long unless kept in pots, as alpines, that they 

 may be sheltered with ease in the winter, particularly Silene 

 cordifolia perfoliata, Catesbaea, Virginica, acaulis, quadriden- 

 tata, rupestris, glaucifblia, rtlgia, pumilio, pusilla, Pennsylvd- 

 nica, &c. ; these may be grown in a mixture of loam and peat, 

 as well as those marked frame. The seeds of the hardy annual 

 and biennial kinds only require to be sown in the beginning of 

 April where they are intended to remain. All the species may 

 be easily increased by seeds, but all the truly perennial kinds 

 are easier increased by dividing the plants at the root in spring. 

 The sections Nanosilene, Siphonomorpha, Rupifraga, andAtocion, 

 contain the most elegant species. 



VII. VISCARIA (from viscus, bird-lime; because the stems 

 of the plants are covered with clammy gluten.) Roehler. 



LIN. SYST. Decandria, Pentagynia. Calyx cylindrical, 

 clavated at the apex, 5-toothed, naked. Petals 5, unguiculated, 

 with scales in the throat. Stamens 10. Styles naturally 5. 

 Capsule 5-celled. Anthophorum long. Evergreen tufted plants, 

 with glassy leaves, and long clustered or corymbose racemes 

 of red or white flowers. 



1 V. VULGA'RIS (Roehl.) stem viscid about the joints ; petals 

 slightly cloven ; leaves linear-lanceolate, fringed at the base. 

 Tl . H. Native throughout the whole of the north of Europe 

 in dry meadows and in fissures of rocks. In Britain on Arthur's 

 seat, and on rocks by the hermitage a mile south of Edinburgh ; 

 on the sides of Craig Wreidhin, Montgomeryshire, &c. Lychnis 

 viscaria, Lin. spec. 625. Smith, engl. bot. 788. Fl. dan. t. 



