THE DISINTEGRATION OF LYCHNIS. 169 
Melandryum (both having fig es characters which separate them 
from Lychnis proper), was founded by Reichenbach in 1841 on 
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hpbiaes. A. Bra ag a circumscribed the limits of Lychnis by 
to revive the Linnean genus Coronaria, which, s far a the 
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L. paerina. So that thi ould, ie the genus Fah ee 
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mmissural nerves of the calyx are wanting, and as this is a 
primary racter in A. Faerie tribe of ogi pier cope 
— that this species should be the type 
ich he called pte it certainly howl be excluded se 
the Lychnis group, and seems to have affinities with Sapona 
us Coronaria, witch it is proposed to revive, is ths defined 
by anes :—* Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, claveforme, 
striatum, erectum, coriaceum "5. -angulare, 5-dentatum, persistens: 
anguli inoribus interjectis. ' Corolla. Petala 5: ungues longit. 
unilocularis, apice ‘te sade ‘Senedak ra fern abidtaieds 
enus has been taken up by Garcke in the Forres saisions of 
Deutschlands Flora, who uses it in very much the same sense as 
A. Br. Engler and Prantl § ate ly sehiih into two op meni 
Eu-lychnis and peebertere If we consider each of these as a genus 
Lychnis in this very limited sense a 1 almost exactly correspond 
with the Hedone || of Loureiro, who recorded L. coronata under the 
‘name of Hedone sinensis. 
We ow to the Silene group, including the species in which 
the capsule is plurilocular at the base. The s species referable to 
this group can be divided into two sections,—(1) ) those in which 
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* Flora, 1843, p. si 
+ Flora, 1843, p. 3 
t Analecta Bot. i. as 54), p 
§ Die Natiirlichen Pann Theil iii. (1889), P 73, 
|| Fl. Cochinch. p. 3 
