60 ENGLISU BOTANY. 



Sub-Species I. — Silene anglica. Linn. 



Plate CCII. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. G«rm. et Ilelv. Vol. VI. Caryoph. Tab. CCLXXIII. Fig. 50j6. 

 y. gallica, var. /3, Auct. Plur. 



Stem erect or ascending, flexuous, with spreading branches. 

 B-accmes lax. Fruiting pedicels (or at least the lower ones) gene- 

 rally longer than the calyx, spreading or reflexed. Lamina of the 

 petals elliptical, scarcely half as long as the claw, white or tinged 

 wdth pink. 



In sandy fields, dry places, and gravel-pits. Not uncommon 

 in the South of England, more rare in the North, and scarce in 

 Scotland, Avhero, however, it is not unfrequent in Haddingtonshire, 

 and is also found in Moray on the East, and Ayr on the "West side 

 of that country. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer. 



Stem 9 to 18 inches long, more or less distinctly dichotomously 

 or trichotomously branched, with the branches spreading. Leaves 

 varying in breadth, the lower ones narrowing at the base. Flowers 

 white, sometimes tinged with pink, f inch long by x^s inch across, 

 in a lax raceme, AA'ith a pair of leaf-bke bracts at the base of each 

 pedicel. Calyx with long white shaggy hairs, teeth about half as 

 long as the tvibe. Petals very small and inconspicuous, elliptical 

 or oblong-oblanceolate. Fruit peduncles variable in length and 

 direction, but the lower ones generally exceeding the calyx, and 

 spreading or deflcxed. Capsule ovate-ovoid, opening by slightly 

 diverging triangular teeth. Seeds small, reniform, with the edges 

 not rounded of!', the sides depressed so as to leave a raised margin, 

 covered with minute tubercles. Whole plant more or less hairy, 

 cs])ecially the stems, peduncles, and calicos, which have long white 

 hairs. The stem is sticky in the upper part ; leaves deep green, 

 not at all glaucous. 



EnQlish Catchjly or Campion. 



French, SiUtie (PAngUterre. 



Sub-Species II.— Silene quinquevulnera. 



Plate CCIII. 



S. sylvestris, Schott. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, ct Ilelv. Vol. VI. Curyoph. Tab. CCLXXII. 



Fig. 50.J.J. 

 S. anglica, var. fl, Bah. Wan. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 40. IIuoL & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viiL 



p. 59. 



Stem erect, straight, with ascending branches. Racemes dense. 

 Fruiting pedicels shorter than the calyx, erect. Lamina of the 



