(6) F. N. WILLIAMS. EUROPEAN VARIETIES OF SILENE INFLATA. 407 
S. inflata var. 7 uniflora Oth in Cand., Prodr. I. 368 ( (1824). — Humilis, 
glabra, floribus solitariis raro geminis aut ternis. 
S. inflata var. prostrata Gaudin, Fl. lee III. 164 (1828). 
S. Willdenowii Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 51 (1830). 
S. inflata, varr. ß, s, glauca, chlorophylla Reichb., Fl. Germ. excurs. 
823 (1832). 
S. Persoont: Schott ex Reichb. 1. c. (1832). 
Cucubalus erassifolius Tenore, Viagg. Abruzz. 67 (1832). 
S. alpına Thomas. Cat. pl. Suisses, 45 (1837). — Also kept up asa 
species in Gren. et Godr., Fl. de France, I. 203. 
Cucubalus Persoonii Spreng. ex Steud.. Nomencl. ed. 2, 1. 451 (1840). 
S. uniflora var. y, Bertol., Fl. Italica, IV. 633 (1841). 
S. inflata var. mici ophylla Boiss., Fl. Orientalis, I. 629 (1867). 
S. commutata var. microphylla Boiss. I. €. 
S. Cucubalus var. alpina Rohrb., Monogr. gatt. Silene, 87 (1868). 
S. marilima var. alpina Ges. Pass. Gib., Comp. fl. Ital. 795 (1870). 
S. brachyantha Schur. Reiseb. ex Linnæa, 1870, 259. 
S. Cucubalus var. microphylla Haussk., Symb. fl. Grac. 23, ex Mittheil. 
Thüring. Bot. Ver. 1893, 42. 
. alpina var. Baldaccii Terracc.. in Malpighia, 1895, 68. 
. inflata var. pauciflora Beyer, Beitr. fl. Gris. et Rhemes, 16 (1893). 
. megalospermaSartoriinSched. Heldr. Herb. Grac.norm.n.1215 (1894). 
. Cucubalus var. ambigua Rouy et Fouc., Fl. de France, II. 108 (1896). 
. alpina var. auriculoides Murr in Deutsch. Bot. Monatschr. 1898, 62. 
. venosa var. y megalosperma Halacsy, Consp. fl. Græc. I. 160 (1900). 
— Folia 15-25 mm. Semina submajora. 
f. rupicola. 
Folia 2 cent., viridia ovato-lanceolata utrinque verrueuloso-punctala. 
Calyx fructifer 14-16 mm. Styli filiformes, apice haud incrassati. These 
differential characters are laken from authentic specimens in Herb. Kew. 
collected by Puget at Mageriaz above Annecy-le-Vieux, in the department 
of Haute-Savoie, growing on serpentine rocks. The plant has also been 
found in the depts. of Haute-Vienne, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Isère, Basses- 
Pyrenées. and Pyrenées-Orientales. The stems vary from 8-15 cent. 
Syn. S. rupicola Boreau, Fl. Centr. France, ed. 3, Il. 95 (1857). 
Var. %# minor Moris Fl. Sardoa, I. 246 (1837); Gren. et Godr. Fl. de 
France, I. 203 (1847). 
Humilis. Caules 11/4-27/1 dm., plurimi. Folia angusta linearia acuta. 
Flores solitarii, vel interdum cyma triflora. Petala vix calycem superanlia. 
Styli apice haud incrassati. 
Deseribed from Gay’s authentic specimens in Herb. Kew. 
Hab. France: Chätillon-sur-Seine, in the dept. of Côte-d'Or (Godron), 
the northern limit of the plant, Angers, in the dept. of Maine-et-Loire 
(Gènevier), the western limit of the plant, — and probably elsewhere. 
Switzerland: the plant was first discovered by Nocca near the hamlet of 
Pregola on the schistose hill of Groppetto, in the canton of Ticino, on 
on rough soil among stones in company with Aethionema saxatıle and 
‚also Armeria plantaginea. Italy: the Lepontine Alps (Bertoloni), on high 
rocks between Amalfi and Vietri above the gulf of Salerno (Levier), and 
in Sardinia at 1400 m. (Moris). 
Cucubalus angustissimus Nocca et Balbis, Fl. Ticinens. L 199, 1.7 (1816). 
: — À very good figure of the form of S. inflata With narrowest leaves. 
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