AFT. BOT. 



chot. strrato, fol. obi. vel. ellipt. acutis scabriusc. 

 panicula dichot. bract, lanceol. caps, conicis 

 the most common European sp. flowers white. 



236, Physoc. capitatum Raf. piloso, caule 

 simplex sufcato, fol, cuneatis obovatisque acu- 

 tis. ciliatis reticulatis, fl. capit. involucratis, caps. 

 subrot. Germania, fl. incarnatis, a smaller 

 plant. 



237, Physoc. vespertinum Raf. caule piloso 

 angulato subdichot. fol. lanceol. glabriusc. acu- 

 tis, fl. term, paucis pedunculatis, caps, ovatis 

 Sent me as Lychnis vespestina and noctnrna 

 from England and Germany, although no such 

 names in books ; pedal leaves longer and nar- 

 rower than in others, flowers incarnate. 



288, SILENE (Viscago) furcata Raf. pubes- 

 cens, caule bifloro vel furcato, ramis unifl. fol. 

 cuneatis acutis, superis lanceol. remotis paucis, 

 cal. brevis teretis, dentib. latis, petalis brevis 

 angustis bifidis Labrador and Hudson Bay, 

 remarkably like the last plant, but a real Silene 

 not diorcal and with 3 styles, smaller 4 to 

 inches high, calix and petals shorter, incar- 

 nate. 



239, ATOCION Ad. Otth ^c, differs from &i~ 

 lene by capsule uniiocular, calix clavate lOner- 

 ved. The G. Silene requires a total revision 

 and reform, of which I show the bases here ; it 

 was preposterous to unite 150 sp. with calix 

 swelled, campanulate. oval, oboval, clavate, 

 terete &,c, smooth or nerved or winged, petals 

 entire or divided, with or without crowns, cap- 

 sule 1 or 3 locular. The subg. of Ottho and Dec. 

 are more by habit than characters and often 

 badly named. The real Sllene Raf. ought to 

 have calix tubular obi, or terete, capsule Slocu- 

 lar, with some subg. yet Viscago calix striate 



