198 12. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



of the Mersy ; but how far this apparent scarcity may arise 

 fi"om our deficient infbnnation about the botany of the 

 western counties, more extended obsen ation will eventually 

 determine. 



SiLENE QUINQUEVULNERA, Linn. 



Ai-ea (* 2 3 4). 



Alien. Reported to have been found in Sussex, Kent, 

 SmTey, Berkshii-e, Suffolk and Bedfordshii-e. It is possible 

 that some of these localities may belong to a spotted va- 

 riety of om- wild S. anglica ; while others probably owe their 

 origin to seeds of the plant cultivated in gardens as an 

 ornamental annual. In the Flora of Tunbridge, Mr. Jenner 

 writes : — "At the Moat, on the Forest, between Timbridge 

 Wells and Frant, in abundance in 1840, shewn to me by Mr. 

 Maddock, who states he cannot account for its appearance, 

 unless it was introduced with the manure earned up fi-om 

 the town. This was most probably the case at Wrotham 

 and other places where it has been foimd." There appeal's 

 no little probability, however, that S. anglica and S. quin- 

 quevulnera are both of them varieties of the Continental and 

 Azoric Silene gallica. Except in the small flowers of the 

 English plants, I can find no certain difference between 

 them. 



156. Silene nutans, Linn.^f^l^l -/i-^j^' 

 "Silene italica." 

 " Silene patens." 



Area^l? 2 3 [4] 5 * 7 8 * 10 * * * (14) 15 * * [18]. 

 South limit in Isle of Wight and Kent. 



