284 DECANDRIA— DIGYNIA. Saponaria. 



genera the same; also n. 241 — 244, and n. 63, 64. See 

 Grammar 159. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, without angles, naked at the 

 base, five-toothed at the summit, permanent. Pet. 5, 

 with narrow angular claws the length of the calyx ; limb 

 flat, dilated towards the extremity, obtuse. Filam, awl- 

 shaped, the length of the calyx, attached alternately to 

 the claws of the petals ; 5 of them later than the rest. 

 Aiitk. oblong, obtuse, incumbent. Germ, somewhat 

 stalked, nearly cylindrical. Styles 2, erect, parallel, as 

 long as the stamens. Stig^nas acute, unilaterally downy. 

 Caps, ovate-oblong, concealed in the calyx, of 1 cell, 

 opening with 4 teeth. Seeds numerous, roundish-kidney- 

 shaped, roughish, attached horizontally to a central, un- 

 connected, columnar receptacle. 



Herbaceous, smooth or hairy, often viscid. Leaves oppo- 

 site, undivided. Stem or panicle forked, bracteated. Fl. 

 white, reddish, or yellowish. S. Vaccaria of Linnaeus, 

 Gcertn. t. 1 30, is evidently a GypsopJiila, m habit and 

 genei'ic chai-acter. 



[I believe the teeth, or valves, of the capsule are, in this 

 whole order, either just as many as the styles, or more 

 frequently double the number ; never bearing any relation 

 in that respect to the calyx, corolla, or stamens, except 

 incidentally. Linnaeus therefore has greatly erred in his 

 descriptions of several of the genera, which many writers, 

 and even excellent draughtsmen, have followed, instead 

 of looking at the plants before them. J 



1. S. officinalis. Common Soapwort. 

 Calyx cylindrical. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate. 



S. officinalis. Linn. Sp. PI. 584. irUld. v. 2. 667. Fl. Br. 459, 



Ejigl. Bot. v.\o.t. 1060. Curt. Land. fuse. 2. t. 29. Woodv. 



suppl. f. 251. Hook. Scot. 134. Fl. Dan. t.543. Bull. Fr. 



t. 257. 

 S. n.908. Hall. Hut. v.\.S^5. 



Saponaiia. Ger. £m. 444. /". Dod. Pempt.\79.f. Lob. Ic.Sl'i-f. 

 S. major. Dalech. Hist. 822./. 

 Lychnis Saponaria dicta. Rail Syn. 339. 

 Struthium. Fuchs. Hist. 780./, veiy bad, copied in Trag.Hist. 900, 



and Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 346. 

 /3. Saponaiia concavaanglica. Bauh. Pin. 206. Prodr. 103. Moris. 



V.2.54S. sect. 5. t.22.f.o3. 

 Lychnis Saponaria dicta, folio convoluto. Raii Syn, 339. 

 Gentiana concava. Ger. Em. 435. f. 



