Lychnis.] VI, CAEYOPHTLLEAE . 55 



* S. CuGubalus, Wibel, Prim. Fl. Werth. 241. An erect or spreading perennial, 

 lft.-3ft. high, much branched, glabrous or downy. Leaves ovate, oblong, or lanceo- 

 late. Flowers drooping, in few- or many-flowered panicles. Calyx inflated. Petals 

 deeply cleft, white; segments narrow. Capsule globose, conical. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : naturalised in cultivated and grassy lands in Auckland and 

 Otago, but local. Bladder-campion. Nov., Deo. Europe. 



■■' S. conica, L., Sp. PL 418. An erect annual, stem simple or dichotomously 

 branched, 6in.-12in. high, hirsute. Leaves linear, upper acute, often appressed to 

 the stem. Flowers in the forks of the branches or terminal. Calyx with 30 furrows, 

 conical; teeth subulate, acute, enlarged in fruit. Petals small, cleft. Capsule oblong- 

 ovoid. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : naturalised. Petrie ! Europe. 



* S. gOiUica, L., Sp. PI. 417. An erect or spreading annual, 6in.-18in. high, 

 hirsute, often viscid. Lower leaves obovate or spathulate ; upper leaves oblong or 

 linear, obtuse or acute. Flowers in terminal leafy racemose cymes. Pedicels very 

 short. Calyx hirsute, at first tubular, afterwards ovoid and contracted at the mouth ; 

 teeth setaceous. Petals entire, small, white or pink. 



Var. quinquevulnera. Petals entire, white with a broad red blotch. 



NOETH Cape to STEWART Island : naturalised in cultivated and grassy land, &c. Spotted 

 catchfly. Nov., Dec. Europe. 



* S. nocturna, L., Sp. PL 416. An erect pubescent perennial herb. Eadical 

 and lower cauline leaves on long petioles, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at 

 both ends, acute, uppermost sessile. Flowers few in 1-2-flowered lateral cymes. 

 Calyx 10-furrowed; teeth short, glandular, hirsute. Petals 2-fid. Capsule ovoid. 



NORTH Island : naturalised, Karori, Wellington. Dec. Europe. 



♦LYCHNIS, Linn. 

 Calyx 5-toothed. Petals with an appendage. Styles 5, rarely 4. Teeth of 

 capsule twice the number of styles. Erect annual or perennial herbs. 

 Calyx tubular. Petals 4-lobed . . . . . . . . . . . . * L. Flos-cuculi. 



Calyx inflated. Petals 2-fid 



Calyx coriaceous. Segments short . . 



Calyx coriaceous. Segments foliaceous 



* L. vespartina. 



* L. coronaria. 



* L. Githago. 



*L. Flos-cuculi, L., Sp. PL 436. An erect perennial herb, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent above. Leaves petioled, oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in loose open panicles or 

 cymes, drooping. Calyx tubular, 5-toothed ; teeth acuminate. Petals cleft into 

 4 linear lobes, crowned. 



NOETH Island: naturalised at Whangarei, Auckland. Oheeseman. Ragged robin. Oct., 

 Nov. Europe, &c. 



*L. vespartina, Sibth., FL Oxon 146. A viscid pubescent biennial, erect or 

 spreading, usually dioecious, 1ft. -2ft. high. Lower leaves petiolate, upper lanceolate, 

 sessile. Calyx with 5 linear teeth. Petals 5, white, expanding at sunset. Capsule 

 conical, with 10 teeth. 



SOUTH Island : sparingly naturalised in Otago. Petrie ! White campion. Nov., Deo. 

 Europe. * 



* L. coronaria, Desr. in Lam. Encyc. iii. 643. An erect dichotomously- 

 branched perennial, clothed with loose white tomentum in all its parts. Radical 

 leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong ; petioles as long as the blade. Calyx coria- 

 ceous, strongly ribbed ; teeth short. Petals entire, large, crowned, rosy-purple. 



NORTH Island: naturalised at Karori, Porirua, &c. ; plentiful. SOUTH Island: near 

 Blenheim, &c. Nov., Dec. South Europe. 



