SILENE. O;> 



l_S. ital'ica (Pers.) ; pubescent, panicle nearly erect with oppo- 

 site trichotomous viscid branches, cal. clavate with blunt teeth, 

 pet. bifid not crowned, segments broad, lower 1. lanceolate spa- 

 thulate, stem-1. linear-lanceolate, carpophore as long as capsule. 

 S. patens E. B. S. 2748. St. 2 ft. high. An escape. P. 

 VI. VII.] E. -S. 



3. S. Otites (Wibel) ; panicle long with opposite tufted 

 ivhorled-racemose branches, whorls many-flowered, ped. glabrous, 

 cal. faintly veined mooth with blunt teeth, pet. linear undivided 

 not crowned, 1. lanceolate-spathulate, stem-1. small linear erect. 

 E. B. 85. Fl. subdmcious, small, yellowish. Caps, sessile. 

 St. viscid at about the middle, 1 foot high. L. mostly radical. 

 Sandy and gravelly places in Sufi' Norf . and Cambridgeshire. 

 P. VI. " E. 



4. S. Cucubalm (Wibel) ; panicle terminal, fl. many drooping, 

 cal. inflated netted, pet. deeply cloven scarcely ever crowned, 

 segments narrow, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, stem erect. E. B. 164. 

 S. inflata (Sm.) ed. viii. Glabrous, smooth. St. 2 3 ft. 

 high. No barren procumbent stems. Inflorescence between 

 corymbose and panicled. Pet. white. Cal. inflated especially be- 

 low, its mouth narrower than its base. Bracts ^carious. Branches 

 of panicle unequal. Scented at night. Sometimes (S. puberula, 

 .lord.) the st. and 1. are rouyrh with hairs and cal. downy. 

 Fields and roadsides. P. VI. VIII. Bladder Campion. 



White-bottle. E. S. 1. 



5. S. marit'ima (With.) ; panicle terminal,^, feiv usually soli- 

 tary erect, cal. inflated netted, pet. crowned, segments broad, lT~ 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, barren st. spreading decumbent, 

 fl.-shoots ascending. E. B. 957. Barren procumbent shoots 

 forming a cushion. Fl. larger than those of Sp. 4. Cal. elliptic, 

 its mouth broader than its base, mostly inflated above the middle. 

 Bracts herbaceous. Near the sea, also by alpine rills. P. VI. 



viii. E. s. i. 



6. S. con'ica (L.) ; st. erect forked, fl. from the forks or ter- 

 minal, cal. with SO furrows conical in fruit, teeth subulate acute, 

 pet. obcordate crowned, 1. linear subulate downy, caps, oblong- 

 ovate. E. B. 922. St. 3 12 in. high, simple or branched. 

 Cal. of the flowers conical-tubular, rounded below ; of the fruit 

 very broad at the base. Carpophore very short. Fl. reddish. 

 Sandy fields, rare. A. V. VI. E. 



7. noctiflora (L.) ; st. erect repeatedly forked, fl. from the 

 forks or terminal, cal. veined and with 10 hairy glandular ribs 

 in fruit elliptic-oblong, teeth long subulate, pet. deeply bifid 



