-")-!: 14. CAKYOPHYLLACE^I. 



high, branched. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, minutely ciliate. Fl. 

 r<>s --coloured, with a darker circle round the mouth, scentless. 

 Hilly pastures, rare. P. VI. IX. Maiden Pink. E. 8. 



2. SAPONA'RIA Linn. Soap wort. 



*1. S. officinal is (L.) ; fl. in corymbose cymes, cal. cylindrical, 

 pet. retire crowned, 1. elliptic-lanceolate ribbed glaucous, st. 

 erect. E. B. 1060. R. vi. 245. St. 6. 10. St. 13 ft. hiuh, 

 stout, leafy. Fl. flesh-coloured or pale pink, large. Upper 1. 

 connate and sheathing. Upper part of st. sometimes pubescent 

 (pubernla, Wierzb.). Hedges near Tillages, but probably in- 

 troduced. Banks of streams on the borders of Wales, perhaps 

 indigenous. P. VIII. E. 



[& Vaccnria (L.) ; st. much branched above, cal. with 5 

 angles, has been found as an escape.] 



3. CUCU'BALUS Linn. 



[C. baccifer (L.) ; st. branched spreading, 1. ovate acute, cal. 

 bellshaped, pet. distant. E. B. 1577. Fruit fleshy. Isle of 

 Dogs near London, not native. P. VIII.] 



4. SILE'NE Linn. Catchfly. 



1. S. any'lica (L.) ; racemes terminal, fl. alternate, cal. hairy 

 with setaceous teeth ovate when in fruit, pet. slightly cloven or 

 entire obovate, 1. lanceolate lower ones spathulate. E. B. 1178. 

 Hairy and viscid. St. 12 in. high, simple or branched, 

 erect. Fl. solitary, secund, axillary, white or reddish. Fr.-st. 

 often reflexed. j3. S. quinquevulnera (L.) ; fl. white with a large 

 crimson spot on disk of each petal. E. B. 86. Sandy and 

 gravelly fields. About forms of this, see J. of B. xviii. 14(5. 

 A. VI. X. English Catchfly. E. S. I. 



2. S. nutans (L.) ; pubescent, glandular-viscid above, panicle 

 secund with drooping trichotomous opposite 3 7-floicered 

 branches, cal. ventricose with acute teeth, pet. bifid crowned, 

 segments linear, lower 1. lanceolate-spathulate, stem-1. sessile 

 lanceolate, carpophore scarcely half as long as the capsule, teeth 

 of the cap. reflexed. E. B. 465. St. 1 j foot high. Fl. white, 

 most expanded and sweetest in the evening. /3. S. paradoxa 

 (Sm.) : rt.-l. roundly spathulate mucronate with lon^ hafts. 

 On limestone and chalky places. . Dover Cliffs. P. VI. VII. 

 Nottingham Catchfly. E. S. 



