94 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



as long as the laminre ; upper leaves ovate or broadly elliptical, 

 sessile. Flowers numerous, in terminal dichotomous cymes. Sepals 

 lanceolate, with narrow scarious margins, the herbaceous part with 

 articulated hairs, some of them terminating in small glands, rarely 

 glabrous. Petals as long as, or shorter than, the calyx, sometimes 

 abortive. Stamens variable in number, but often fewer than 10. 

 Fruit-stalks spreading or reflexed. Capsule slightly drooping, a 

 little longer than the sepals, conic-ovoid. Stem with articulated, 

 hairs in a narrow strip down one side. 



Var. a, genuina. 



S. media, " Sm." Edch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXII. 



Fig. 4904. 

 S. media, Boreau, Fl. dii Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. p. 104. 



Stem much branched, decumbent. Leaves acute, or very shortly 

 acuminated. Pedicels hairy on one side. Sepals lanceolate, scarcely 

 acute, hairy. Petals a little shorter than the sepals. Stamens 

 usually 5. Seeds about -^^^ inch across, yellowish-brown, punctate- 

 rugose, with rather distant slightly-raised rounded tubercles, which 

 are puckered at the base. 



Var. 3, Borceana. 



S. Borseana, Jord. Pug. PL Nov. p. 33. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. 

 Vol. II. p. 104. 



Stems slender, slightly branched. Leaves and pedicels as in 

 var. a. Sepals lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, hairy. Petals none. 

 Stamens usually 3. Seeds half the size of those of var. a, indis- 

 tinctly punctate-rugose, with distant slightly-raised tubercles of an 

 irregular form. 



Var. 7, neglecta. 



S. neglecta, Weihe. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. VoL V. Caryoph. Tab. CCXXII. 



Fig. 4905. 

 Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii Vol. II. p. 104. 



Stem sub-erect, branched at the base. Leaves acute. Pedicels 

 hah*y on one side. Sepals broadly lanceolate, rather obtuse, hairy. 

 Petals as long as the sepals. Stamens generally 10. Seeds reddish- 

 brown, about the size of those of var. a, punctate-rugose, with 

 numerous rather prominent rounded tubercles, which are irregu- 

 larly puckered at the base. 



