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In moist, shady places, woods and hedge-banks, with the same geogra- 

 phical range as the tohite L. Equally common in Britam. Fl. all summer, 

 commencing in spring. 



3. Corn Iiychnis. Iiychuis Githago, Lam. 

 {Agrostemma, Eng. Bot. t. 741. Corn Cockle.) 



A tall, erect annual, simple or slightly branched, clothed with long, soft, 

 whitish appressed hairs. Leaves long and narrow. Flowers on long leaf- 

 less pediuicles, rather large, red, and inodorous, remarkable for the long, 

 green, linear lobes of the calyx, projecting much beyond the petals ; tlie 

 latter are broad, undivided, and without any scales on the lamina. Capsule 

 opening in 5 teeth. 



Probably of south-eastern origin, but now a common cornfield weed, all 

 over Europe and Russian Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in 

 British cornfields. Fl. with the corn. 



4. meadow Iiychnis. Lychnis Flos-cuculi, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 573. Ragged Eohin.) 



Stock short and perennial, but not of long duration, stems erect, not 

 much branched, 1 to 2 feet high, shghtly downy below and viscid above. 

 Leaves few, narrow-lanceolate, the lower ones stalked. Flowers in loose 

 terminal panicles, red and scentless, but remarkable for their petals cut 

 into 4 linear lobes, the two middle ones the longest. Calyx short, glabrous, 

 ■with 10 ribs and 5 short teeth. Capsule nearly globular, opening in 5 

 teeth. 



In moist or marshy meadows and pastures, ditches, etc., tliroughout 

 Europe and Eussian Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in Britain. 

 Fl. spring and swnmer. 



5. Viscid Iiychnis. Iiychnis Viscaria, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 788.) 



Stock perennial, usually tufted, the flowering stems erect, 6 inches to a 

 foot high, glabrous, but very viscid in the upper part. Leaves long and 

 narrow, the lower ones contracted into long stalks, which are often fringed 

 with a few woolly liairs. Flowers red, in close, sessile or shoi-tly-stalked, 

 opposite clusters, forming an oblong panicle, or sometimes a termmal head. 

 Calyx tubular, about 6 lines long, with 10 veins and 5 short teeth, rather 

 swoUen above the middle as the fruit ripens. Petals shghtly notched. 



On rocks and rather diy hilly pastures, m northern and central Europe 

 and a great part of Russian Asia, but not an Arctic plant, and yet rare in 

 southern Europe. In Britain, confined to a few localities in North Wales 

 and Scotland, especially about Edinbm-gh and in Perthshu-e. FL June. 



6. Alpine Iiychnis. Iiychnis alpina, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 2254.) 



Like the viscid L. in habit and foliage, but smaller and not viscid. Stems 



seldom 6 inches high. Flowers puik, smaller than in the viscid L., in 



compact heads, the calyx much shorter, and the petals narrow and deeply 



2- cleft. 



In rocky situations, at high latitudes or great elevations, in Arctic and 

 northern Europe and Asia, and in the higher mountain-ranges of central 



