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r ; lant is common 
there propagated; and the plant is 
peat thofe who love thefe things. It 
keeps pretty conftant to its hollow-leaved con- 
dition, but not with perfect regularity. 
6. Wild Campion, called Cockle. 
Lychnis fegetum nigellaftrum diftum. 
The root is long, flender, fimple, and furnifhed 
with few fibres. : 
The ftalk is upright, round, hairy, fearce at 
all branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves grow two at a joint; and they are 
long, narrow, hairy, not at all indented, and of 
a pale green. 
"The flowers ftand at the top of the ftalk, and 
of fome few fhoots rifing from the bofoms of 
the upper leaves: they are large, and of a fine 
deep red. 
The feed-veffel is large, as are alfo the feeds. 
It is common in our corn-fields, and flowers 
in July. re : 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis fegetum major. 
thers, Nigellaftrum, and Pfeudomelanthium. 
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7. Common, wild, white Campion. 
Lychnis fylveftris alba vulgaris. 
The root is long and thick, and has few 
fibres. 
The firft leaves are numerous: they rife in a 
large, thick, upright tuft, and are oblong, broad, 
of a frefh green, not indented, and fharp- 
"pointed. P 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, very much 
branched toward the top, and two foot high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs: they are oblong, 
broad, undivided, and fharp-pointed. 
The flowers are large and white; and the cups 
ftriated, but not fo much {welled as thofe of the 
white ben. ' 
The feed-veffel is large, as arealfo the feeds, 
It is common in paftures and about hedges. 
Jt flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis fylveftris alba fimplex. 
It is fometimes found with the fower naturally 
double: it frequently owes that advantage to 
culture, and is thence called the double white cam- 
pion ; or, in the gardeners language, white Latche- ° 
lors buttons. 
8. Common red wild Campion. 
Lychnis flore rubello. 
The root is long, flender,’ and has few fibres. 
The firft thoots are full of leaves ; and thofé 
are long, broad, and of a deep green, 
The ftalks are numerous, round, hairy, branch- 
ed, and weak, 
The leaves are placed two at a joint; and they 
are broad and hairy, and of a freth green, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches; 
and are large, and of a pale red. 
The feed-veffels are large and oval 
feeds alfo are large. 
; It is common in damp hedges, and flowers in 
une. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis flveftris five aqua- 
3 and the 
tica purpurea fimplex. Others, Lychuis fylucftris 
rubello flore. 
This fpecies is taken into gardens, and ‘ren- ° 
dered double by culture ; in which ftate it makes ~ 
a very beautiful appearance, and is called red 
batchelors buttons ; or, by others, double red cam- 
pion. ' 
g. Small flowered Corn Campion. 
Lychnis arvenfis flore minimo. 
The root is fmall, oblong, white, and fur- 
nifhed with a few fibres. 
The ftalks aré round, hairy, weak, jointed, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves grow in pairs, and are oblong and 
narrow: they are hairy alfo, and of a pale co- 
lour. : 
The flowers are very fmall, ufually white, but 
fometimes redifh, 
The feed-vefiél is large, as are alfo the feeds, 
Ic is not uncommon in the corn-fields of Kent 
and Suffex ; and flowers in July. 
Ray calls it Lychnis fylueftris flore albo minimo. 
Others, Lychnis arvenfis flore minimo rubente. 
10. White-flowered clammy Campion. 
Lychnis vifcofa flore albo. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed’ with: 
a few fibres, 
The leaves that firft grow from it are oblong, 
broad, and of a pale green : they rife in a con- 
fiderable number, and have long footftalks, 
The ftalks are’ numerous, flender, upright, 
round, and jointed. 
The leaves grow in pairs, and have long foot- 
ftalks: they are oblong, broad, not at all in- 
dented at the’ edges, and pointed at the ends. 
The flowers grow at the top of the ftalk, and 
on fhoots rifing from’ the bofoms of the upper 
leaves: they are white, and the petals are very 
deeply divided from the top: they quickly fall off, 
The feed-veflél is large, and the feeds are 
brown. 
It is found on ditch-banké, and on Walls in 
fome parts of thé kingdom, but is not com- 
mon. It flowers in July, 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis montana vifcofa alba 
latifolia. . 
The tops of the ftalks in this plant are clam- 
my, principally juft under the flowers, and hence 
has rifen the name of vi/cofa and clammy. 
11. Great night-flowering Campion. 
Lychnis noétiflora major. 
The root is long and thick, and ig furnifhed 
with many fibres, 
The firft fhoots are numerous, round, firm, 
and Jointed ; One or more in the middle ufually 
ftands upright; and {everal ‘others trail upon 
the ground all round it. 
The leaves grow in pairs, and are thick, of a 
deep green, hairy, not at all dented, and blunt 
at the ends. 
The flowers grow on the tops of the ftalks, 
and of numerous branches that rife from the bo- 
foms of the'leaves al] the way up the plant: they 
are 
