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7. S. 



XIV. CARYOPHYLLACE^ : SILENEiE. 



{Italian C.) 



[ SiUne, 



nearly erect, branches opposite; calyx long clavate the tP.!. 

 blunt, petals deeply bifid not crowned the segmen s b oad 

 carpophore half as long as the capsule, radical leaves snathX' 

 on long stalks, cauline one sessile linear-lanceolate. tl^t 



Mr. 



11 . 6, 7. 



known from S. nutans by the much longer and more cLa e ea " 

 the absence of a crown to its petals, and their broader segments Th" 

 petals. r. wh.te. The whole plant is more or less down^y, Zpall 



shghtly v.scid. Teeth of the capsule reflexed. It has, we fear! escan t 

 from gardens. ' tis'tapea 



8 S. conical., {striated Corn C.) ; panicle forked, petals 

 b.fid crowned, leaves linear downy, calyx in fruit conicaf vJh 

 numerous furrows, the teeth long subulate. E B t 9^2 



At New Romney and Sandown Castle, Kent 

 Thetford, Suffolk. Dirleton, Haddingtonshire. ^. 5_7.__p^ 



Cahjx of the flower almost tubular and imbrt 



9 "^ -« — ^^ - «^B 



tals purple, small. 



Near Bury and 



0. 5—7. 



cated at the base, of the fruit so broad and swollen at its base! to 

 be nearly conical ; it is moreover finely striate. 



6. Stems elongated. Flowers corymbose. Calyx clavate. 



9. S * Armeria L. {common or LoheVs C.) ; panicles forked 

 corymbose with crovvned flowers, petals notched and crowned 

 with awl-shaped scales calyx clavate and as well as the leaves 

 glabrous, leaves ovato-lanceolate, stem viscid. E. B. t. 1398 



Banks of the Dee, half a mile from Chester; now extinct.' 



mg, Kent. 



©. 7, 8. 



Extremely common in gardens. 



Yald- 



*« 



Capsule \ -celled from the very base. 



tee h oblong m fruit with 10 connected hairy ribs, leaves la7 

 ceolate lower ones spathulate, capsule ovate. E. B. t. 291. 



land. Coast of Forfarshire; Dirleton, Haddingtonshire; N. Queent 



nl7LT' \ ®- '' TT-^^"'^ ' ''■ °^ --^ ^-»h. Xea.^ much 

 hke the last pubescent. Upper part of the stem many times dicho- 



ZZT- '^K r;^1 terminated with a single flowerf and a solitary 



!r . Z-\' T f 'Y- ^"''^- ^^"''''•' '''^''' l^^g^' sweet-scented; 

 pale-reddish, almost white. Peduncles viscid 



(5 alpestris which has also the capsule perfectlv l-celled, was 

 said by the late Mr. Geo. Don to have been discovered by him on a 

 rock on a mountain to the east of Clova in Angusshire ; and specimens 

 from him are preserved m Mr. Borrer's and Dr. Walker Arnott's 

 herbaria; but they appear certainly to have been obtained from a 

 garden If discovered it may be recognised by the calyx-teeth ovate 

 blunt, hmb of the petals broad and 4- deft, and the seeds ciliated.) 



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