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Zermatt, and which exactly agrees with the description given by Rohr- 
bach (Monogr. p. 87). Some Pyrenean specimens in herbaria labelled 
”alpina” also belong here, which have short leaves pubescent on both 
sides. 
Cucubalus marginatus Kit. ex Schultes, Oesterr. Fl. ed. 2, 1. 674 (181%). 
S. microloba Schott in Anal. Botanica, 59 (1854). 
Varietates excludendæ. 
S. inflata var. cæsia Baldacci (1894) = S. cæsia Sibth. et Smith (1806). 
S. inflata var. fabaria Otih (1824) — S. Thorei Dufour (1825). 
S. inflata var. maritima Otth (1824) = S. maritima With. (1796). 
S. inflata var. petræa Fries (1842) — S. maritima var. petræa Rouy et 
Fouc. (1896). 
S. inflata var. Athoa (1843) — S. commutala Guss. (1827). 
S. inflata var. Balcanica Velen., Fl. Bulgaricæ suppl. 37 (1898). — This 
is a tall plant witb the middle leaves cordate, which I can not distin- 
guish from the last, to which it should be transferred. 
S. inflata var. alpina Tenore, Syll. Plant. vase. Fl. Neapol. 210 (1831), 
non Mert. et Koch (1831) — S. commutata Guss. (1827). 
S. inflata var. minor Gaudin. Fl. Helvetica, III, 163 (1828), non Moris 
(1837) = S. glareosa Jord. (1852). 
Of the 16 varieties enumerated by Gürke in Richter, Plant Europe, 
II. 286 (1899), two belong to S. commutata, one to S. glareosa, and the 
remaining 15 are distributed among the six varieties described in this 
paper. Successive compilers of plant-lists seem to outvie one another in 
the endless changes of name which they propose for this species (one of 
the most common European plants), though several of the names are 
barred, by inability to survive Prof. Schinz’s elusive interpretation of the 
posthumous influence of ” totgeborenen Namen”. 
The name of Silene inflata for the white-bottle is in all but universal 
- use, and has been so for 108 years, and is therefore here kept up. It has 
the further advantage that, as far as the European forms are concerned, 
there has been no necessity in this paper for proposing new combina- 
tions in varietal names. 
In the English Midlands the average date of flowering is 6 June. 
Iusect Visitors to S. inflata. — Platychirius manicalus, Cordylura, 
Anthomyids, Eristalis pertinax, Chortophila (Elliot Fl. Dumfriesshire, 
p. 23, 1896), also Noctuidæ, but rarely Bombus (Poppius in Act. Soc. Faun. 
Fl. Fennicæ. XXV, n. À, 1903). 
Fungi which attack the species. — According to Saccardo, the stem, the 
leaves, and the flower are subject to mycological parasitism : — 1. The 
siem, by Helotium fumigatum, Phomamelæna, Pleospora herbarum, Puc- 
cimia Silenes, Schizothyrium cornubatum, Uromyces Behems, 2. the leaves, 
by Marsonia Delastrei, Peronospora Dianthi, Ramularia didymaroides, 
Septoria Saponariæ, Uredo Cucubali, 3. the flower, by Sorosporium Sapo- 
nariæ, Ustilago violacea. 
