50 '14. CAKYOPHTLLiCE^. 



cal. bellshaped, pet. distant.— -E. B. 1577.— Fruit fleshy.— Isle 

 of Dogs near London, not native. P. VIII.] • B. 



4. Sile'ke LirM,, ,,Qatcli&y. 



1. S. an^Kca (L.) ; racemes terminal, fl. alternate, cal. hairy 

 with setaceous teeth' ovate whe'n in fruit, pet. slightly cloven 

 or entire obovate, 1, lanceolate; lovs^er ones spathulate. — Hairy 

 and viscid. St. 6 — 12 in. high, simple or branched, erect. Fl. 

 solitary, secund, axillary, vrhite or reddish. Fr.-st, often re- 

 flexed. — 0. S. quinquevuhiera (L.) y fl. white vrith a large crim- 

 son spot upon the disk of each usually entire petal. E. B. 86. 

 — Sandy and gravelly fields. /3. Duppas FliU, Surrey, and 

 Wrotham, Kent. A. VJ.— X. English Catchfy. E. S. I. 



2. 8. nutans (L.) ; pubescent, glandular-viscid above, panicle 

 secund with -.drooping, ,trichotonious, opposite 3 — 7-flowered 

 branches, cal. ventricose with acute teeth, pet. bifid crowned, 

 segments linear, lower 1. lahceolate-.spathiuate, stem-1. sessile 

 lanceolate, carpophore scarcely haJf as long as the capsule, teeth 

 of the caps, reflexed. — St. IJ foot high. Fl. white, most ex- 

 panded and sweetest in the evening. — ^. S. paradoxa (Sm.) ; 

 rt.-l. roundly spathulate toucronate vrith long hafts. — On lime- 

 stone and chalky places. 0. Dover' Clifis. iP. VI. VII. Not- 

 tikgham Catchfly. ■:■.. E. S. 



[.S". ital'ica (Pers.) ; pubescent, panicle nearly erect with oppo- 

 site trichotomous viscid branches, cul. clavate vsdth blunt teeth, 

 pet. bifid not cro-mied,; segments broad, lower 1. lanceolate spa- 

 thulate, stem-1. linear-lanceolate,, carpophore as long as capsule. 

 —S. patens E. B. S. 2748.— St. 2 feet high.— Not a native. P. 

 VI. VII.] E..S. 



S. S. Otites (Sm.) ; panicle long with opposite tufted whorled- 

 racemose branches, whorls many-flowered, ped. glabrous, cal. 

 faintly veined smooth with -blunt teeth, pet. linear undivided not 

 crowned, 1. lanceolate-spathulate, stem-1. small linear erect. — 

 Fl. subdioecious, small, yellowish. Caps. sessUe. St. viscid at 

 about the middle, 1 foot high.' L. mostly radical. — Sandy and 

 gravelly places in Sufi!, Norf. and Cambridgeshire. P. VI. E. 



4. S. injlatd (Sm.) ; panicle terminal, fl. many drooping, cal. 

 inflated netted, pet. deeply cloven scarcely ever crowned, seg- 

 ments narrow, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, stem erect. — Glabrous, 

 smooth. St. 2 — 3 feet high. Inflorescence between corymbose 

 and panicled. Pet. white. Cal. inflated especially below, mouth 

 narrower than the base. Bracts scarioiis. Branches of panicle 

 unequal. Scented at night. Sometimes the st. and 1.- are rough 



