291 DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 



when propagated by seed in a garden. The root creeps exten- 

 sively. The stems are about a span high ; prostrate and branched 

 in the lower part ; the flowering extremities ascending, or erect. 

 Leaves lanceolate, not ovate, scarcely above an inch long ; al- 

 ways smooth, as far as 1 have seen. Fl. larger and handsomer 

 than the foregoing, more upright, often solitary, sometimes 2 or 

 3 together, never perhaps more. Calyx strongly reticulated. 

 Pet. broader, in general less deeply cloven, each with an acute 

 divided scale at the base of the limb. Styles occasionally 4 or 5. 

 Caps, almost globular, not half so long as the permanent calyx. 

 The edges of the leaves are often finely and sharply toothed. 



*** Stem, and branches ifani),forhed, leafy. 



5. S. conica. Striated Corn Catchfly. 



Stem forked. Petals cloven, each with a cloven acute scale. 

 Leaves softly downy. Calyx when in fruit conical, with 

 thirty furrows. 



S. conica. Linn. Sp. PL 598, Willd. v. 2. 698. Fl. Br. 470. Engl. 



Bat. V. 13. t. 922. H. Grac. v. 5. t. 423. Jacq. Austr. t. 253. 



Dicks. H. Sice. fasc. 18. 11. 

 S. conoidea. Huds. 189. 

 Lychnis sylvestris angustifolia, caliculis turgidis striatis. Bauh. Pin. 



205. Dill, in Raii Sijn.34l. 

 L. sylvestris altera incana, caliculis (not cauliculis) striatis. Lob. 



Ic. 338./; bad, all the flowers tetrapetalous. 

 L. sylvestris incana Lobelii. Ger. Em. 470./. the same. 

 Muscipulae majori, calyce ventricoso^ similis. Bauh. Hist. v. 3.350. 



/. with the same fault. 



In sandy fields, rare. 



A little to the north of Sandown castle plentifully. J. Sherard and 

 Rand. Opposite the warren house at New Romney, Kent. 

 Rev. Mr. Stacy. 



Annual. July. 



Root small, tapering. Herbage soft and downy, of a dull greyish 

 green. Stem upright, from 3 inches to 2 feet high, usually re- 

 peatedly forked ; in a starved state sometimes single-flowered ; 

 always leafy, round, finely downy. Leaves sessile, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, acute, single-ribbed, downy, combined and slightly 

 membranous at the base. Fl. from the forks of the stem, stalked, 

 solitary, erect, fragrant in an evening with the scent of a honey- 

 suckle. Cal. cylindrical, with deep taper teeth ; abrupt at the 

 base J and having 30 close, longitudinal, downy, green ribs, 

 which as the fruit advances become separated by the pale, some- 

 what downy, membranous body of the calyx, then become turgid 

 and ovate, or conical. Petals small, each with a red cloven 

 limb, and a deeply divided scale j the claw also terminating up- 



