296 DECANDRIA— TRIGYNIA. Silene. 

 **** Panicle forked, corymbose, leafless. 



7. S. Anneria. Common, or Lobel's, Catchfly. 



Panicles forked, level-topped, many-flowered. Petals cloven, 

 each with a double awl-shaped scale. Calyx and leaves 

 smooth. Capsule not longer than its stalk. 



S.Armeria. Lmn. Sp. PZ.601. Willd.v.2.705. FLBr.47l. Engl. 



Bot. V. 20. t.i398. H. Dan. t. 559. 

 Viscago n. 916. Hall. Hist. t). 1. 398. 

 Lychnis viscosa purpurea latifolia laevis. Bauh. Pin. 205. Dill, in 



Rail Syn. 341. 

 L. sylvestris prima. Clus. Hist. v. 1 . 288./. 

 Armerius flos quartus. Dod. Pempt. 176./. 

 Muscipula, sive Armoraria altera, et Armerius flos tertius Dodonaei. 



Loh. Ic. 454./. 

 M. sive Armaria altera. Dalech. Hist. 809./. 

 M. Lobelii. Ger. Em. 601 ./. 



In fields, or on banks, or old walls, a doubtful native. 



On the banks of the river, half a mile below Chester. Dr. Rich- 

 ardson. 



Annual. July, August. 



Root tapering. Herb smooth, glaucous. Stem erect, round, alter- 

 nately branched, leafy, with a brown, hairy and glutinous ring, 

 under 2 or 3 of the upper joints, by which small flies are caught. 

 Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong, of a light glaucous green, very 

 smooth. Panicles terminal, erect, repeatedly forked, dense, 

 corymbose, with a pair of small acute bracteas under each sub- 

 division. Fl. on very short stalks, except the lowermost, erect, 

 crowded, inodorous. Cal. tubular, swelling upwards, very 

 smooth, often reddish, with 10 ribs, and 5 teeth, not 10 as de- 

 scribed in Engl. Bot. ; the base abrupt. Limb of the petals rose- 

 coloured, varying to white, obovate, cloven, always spreading, 

 with an upright, tapering, acute, reddish pair of scales at the 

 base. Caps, ovate, within the calyx, elevated on a columnar 

 stalk, often more than its own length. 



Often cultivated, as a hardy annual, in flower-gardens, from whence 

 it may occasionally escape into the country. 



***** Stem panicled, imperfectly forked. 



8. S. nutans. Nottingham Catchfly, 



Panicle with drooping, unilateral, partly forked, branches. 

 Petals deeply cloven, with linear segments, and an acute 

 cloven scale. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, downy. 



S. nutans. Liyin. Sp. PI. 596. fVilld. v. 2. 694. Fl. Br. 466. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 7. «.465. Hook. Scot. 135. Fl. Dan. f. 242. Ehrk. Herb, 

 155. 



