Silene.] DECANDRIA — TRIGYNIA. 179 



Sandy fields, chiefly in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. FL 

 July, Aug. 11.. — Remarkable for its small, unassuming, dioecious Jiowers, 

 with their linear, yellowish, entire petals, 



**** Stems elongated, branched. Flowers in leafy racemes, 



alternate. 



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5. S. Anglica, L. {English Catchjly') ; hairy and viscid, petals 

 (small) crowned slightly bifid, calyces with setaceous teeth ovate 

 in fruit and sometimes reflexed. E.Bot.t. 1178. 



Sandy and gravelly fields ; in Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, 

 and Norfolk ; South Port, Lancashire, and North Wales. Cornwall. 

 Between Dundee and St Andrew's ; near Perth. FL June, July. 0. — 

 More or less viscid. Leaves lanceolate, the lower ones spathulate. 

 Flowers solitar}' from the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx at first 

 cylindrical, scarcely shorter than the petals, erect ; at length the lower 

 ones, when in fruit, have their pedicels often sintrularly reflected. Petals 

 mostly white, sometimes with a faint tinge of red in the middle, in which 

 case the whole plant much resembles the following species. 



6. ^.* quinquevuhiera, L. (variegated Catchfly^ ; pubescent, 

 limb of the petals roundish entire, flowers secund, calyces with 

 setaceous teeth and alwstys erect very hairy. E. Bot. t. 86. 



Sandy corn-fields, near Wrotham, Kent. Duppa's Hill, by Croydon. 

 Fl. June, July. 0. — A common annual in our gardens, which derives 

 its Latin specific name from the 5 deep red spots on its petals resem- 

 bling marks of blood, but which become more or less faint in cultivation. 



***** Stems panicled, leafy. Calyx not bladdery. 



7. S. nutans, L. (Nottingham, Catchjly) ; flowers panicled se- 

 cund cernuous, branches opposite, calyx cylindrical ventricose, 

 petals deeply cloven their segments linear crowned, leaves (of 

 the stem) lanceolate pubescent. E- Bot. t. 465. 



Limestone rocks, and chalky cliffs in England. About Nottingham. 

 Ormeshead, Caernarvonshire. Knaresborough, Yorkshire ; Dove Dale, 

 Derbyshire. North Queensferry and near Arbroath, Scotland. Fl. 

 June, July. 11- — 1 — li|- ft. high. iJoo^/eayes spathulate, acute. Petals 

 rather large, white, (exjjanding only at night.) Talbot. 



8. S.*Jtdlica, DC. (^Italian Cutchjly) ; flowers panicled nearly 

 erect, branches opposite, calyx long clavate, petals deeply bifid 

 not crowned the segments broad, radical leaves spathulate on 

 long stalks, cauline ones sessile linear-lanceolate. — S. puradoxa, 

 Sm. Fl. Brit. p. 467, (not of Linn.) Reichenb. Icon. Bot. t. •192, 

 (excellent). — aS'. patens, Peete, i?i E. Bot. Suppl. t. 2748. 



Cliffs at Dover, Mr Peete. Fl. June, July. if. .—This may be at 

 once known from S. nutans by the much longer and more clavate calyx, 

 the absence of a crown to its petals, and their broader segments. These 

 petals are w hite. The whole plant is more or less downy, the panicles 

 slightly viscid. 



9. S. conica, L. (striated Corn Catchjly) ; panicle forked, 

 petals bifid crowned, leaves linear downy, calyx in fruit conical 

 with numerous furrows. E. Bot. t. 922. 



