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Silene.'] 



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Frequent upon the sea-shore in sandy and stony places, as well as 

 by alpine rills. %. 6— 8. — This, although it has smaller stems and 

 leaves than the last, has larger flowers ; yet we will not assert we 

 have done right in again raising it to therank of a species. In this 

 and the preceding, the styles are variable in number. 



3. Stems elongated. Flowers in racemes, and whorhd. 



4. S. Otites Sm. {Spanish C) ; stems erect nearly simple 

 ■with few leaves, flowers in whorls subdioecious, petals linear en- 

 tire not crowned, leaves spathulate. Cucubalus, E. B. t, 85. 



Sandy fields, chiefly in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. 

 6—8. 



2^. 



Remarkable for its small unassuming, AJvt&cioxxs, flowers, with 

 their linear entire yellowish petals. 



4. Stems elongated, branched. Flowers in leafy racemes, alternate. 



5. S. A'nglica L. {English C.) ; hairy and viscid, petals 

 (small) crowned slightly bifid or obovate entire, calyces with 

 setaceous teeth ovate in fruit.— a", flowers white or tinged with 

 red, petals usually bifid. E. B. t. 1178. — /3. flowers white 

 with a red spot on each obovate usually entire petal, b. qum- 

 quevulnera L.: E. B. t. 86. 



Sandy and gravellv fields, a. in Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Hert- 

 fordshire, Devonshire, Norfolk, Lancashire, North Wales, Essex, 

 Cornwall, and Isle of Wight. In most of the counties on the east 

 coast of Scotland, and in Ayrshire, but certainly introduced. ^. near 

 Wrotham, Kent, and Duppa's Hill, by Croydon, Surrey. 0. 6—11. 

 — More or less viscid. Leaves lanceolate, the lower ones spathulate. 

 Flowers solitary from the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx at first 

 cylindrical, scarcely shorter than the petals, erect ; at length the lower 

 ones, when in fruit, have their pedicels often singularly reflected. 

 Our var. )3 is a common annual in gardens ; it derives its Latin 

 specific name from the 5 deep red spots sometimes observable on its 

 petals, resembling marks of blood, but which are often more or less 

 faint. 



5. Stems panicled, leafy 



CNottinghai 



Calyx not bladdery. 



secund cernuous, branches opposite, calyx cylindrical ventricose 



the teeth acute, petals deeply cloven crowned their segments 



as the capsule, leaves (of the stem) 



S. Daradoxa Sm. Fl. Br. (not L.) 



lanceolate. E. B, t. 465. 



England, 



Dover Cliffs 



Limestone rocks, and chalky cliffs in ^ 

 about Nottingham; Ormeshead, Caernarvonshire; Isle of Wight, 

 and Brown down, near Gosport, Hampshire ; Knaresborough, York- 

 shire; Dove Dale, Derbyshire. N. Queensferry; St. Cyrus, Kincar- 

 dineshire; and near Arbroath, Scotland, %> 5 — 7, Stem 1 ^ 

 high. Eoot'leaves spathulate, acute. Petals rather large, white 



Uft. 



paiiding in the evening. 



Teeth of the capsule reflexed. 



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