CAllYOPIIYLLACE^. 5!) 



Thctford, and Ercswcll, Suffolk; Brandon, Xoi-folk ; and also on 

 Dii'leton Common, Haddingtonshire, and Montrose Links, Torfar- 

 sLire ; though possibly not native in the Scotch localities. 



England, [Scotland]. Annual. Summer. 



Crown of the root producing one or more stems, wliich are 2 to 

 15 inches high, irregularly dichotomously branched towards tlie 

 top. Leaves all very narrow ; the lower ones attenuated at the 

 base, and less acute than the upper; the uppermost of all (or 

 bracts) with numex'ous ribs and long acuminate points. Plowers 

 -^ inch long by | inch across. Calyx truncate, intruded or umbi- 

 licate at the base (above which it swells out very much as the 

 capsule increases in size), teeth nearly one-third the length of the 

 whole. Petals with the claw dilated into 2 auricles at the top, 

 and much longer than the lamina, which is rose-colour. Capsule 

 ovoid-conical, nearly filling the calyx. Seeds roundish-reniform, 

 with the edges of the parallel sides not rounded off, so as some- 

 what to resemble a vertebra, covered with very small tubercL-s. 

 Plant green, with small hairs and sticky glands towards the upper 

 part of the stem and on the calyx ribs. 



Striated Campion or Catchjly. 



French, Silene Conique. Gei'mau, Kegelkdchigcr Tauhenhi-opf. 



SectioxX III.— VISCAGO. 



Inflorescence pseudo-racemose or -spicate; sometimes forked, 

 with a single flower in the fork (primary axis short). Calyx 

 not bladdery; at first sub-cylindrical, afterwards ovoid, strongly 

 10-nerved, without anastomosing veins, tightly enclosing the 

 capsule. Capsule with imperfect partitions. 



SPECIES I V -S ILENE GALLIC A. Eoch. 

 Pl.a.te,s ecu. CCIII. 

 No perennial rootstock or barren shoots. Stem erect or de- 

 cumbent. Lower leaves oblanceolate or obovate ; upper ones 

 oblong or linear. Flowers erect, in terminal racemes, alternate, 

 sub-secund. Calyx at first cylindrical, afterwards ovoid, not 

 umbilicate at the base, with 5 rather long triangular acuminate 

 teeth at the apex, and 10 hairy ribs. Lamina of the petal oblong- 

 obovate or -oblanceolate or elliptical, entire, denticulate or slightly 

 notched at the tip, with 2 distinct scales at the base. Pilaments 

 hairy. Gynophore rudimentary. Capsule ovoid, about as long as 

 the calyx teeth. 



