48 14. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



rose-colouved, crown scarcely more than 2 small tubercles upon 

 each petal. Caps, b-celled when young. Seeds reniform, minute, 

 bluntly tuhercled. — Mountains. Glen Isla, Forfar. (3200 ft.). 

 Hobcarteu Crag, Cumb. (2000 ft.). P. VI. VII. E. S. 



3. L. Flos-cuculi (L.) ; pet. deeply 4-cleft crowned, segments 

 linear palmately diverging, cal. with short teeth, st. with deflexed 

 hairs, 1. lanceolate the lower ones narrowed below, fl. loosely 

 panicled, caps. 1-celled, teeth 6, carpophore very short. — E. B. 

 573. — St. viscid and brownish above, 1 — 2 feet high. Pet. rose- 

 coloured, the crown bipartite ; segments subulate erect and 

 usually with an acute tooth on the middle of the outer margin. 

 Cal. 10-ribbed.— Moist places. P. V. VI. Ragged Robin. 



4. L. vespertina (Sibth.); pet. half bifid crowned, st. villose, 

 1. peduncles and cal. hairy, 1. ovate-lanceolate, fl. dichotomously 

 panicled dioecious, calyx-teeth of the fertile fl. linear lanceolate 

 long, caps, conical, teeth 10 straight. — St. 23. 9. B. vi. 304. 

 L. dioica /3. (L.) E. B. 1580. — Fl. white, very rarely reddish. 

 Calyx of barren fl. obovate-oblong ; of fertile fl. ovate, teeth 

 twice as long as those of L. diurna. Carpophore broad, short. 

 —Fields. B. (?) VI.— IX. White Campion. 



5. L. diurna (Sibth.); pet. half bifid crowned, st. 1. and cal. 

 villose, 1. ovate acute, fl. dichotomously panicled, dioecious, calyx- 

 teeth of the fertile fl. triangular, caps, nearly globular, teeth 10 

 recurved.— St. 23. 8. R. vi. 304. L. dioica a.. (L.) JS. B. 1579.— 

 Fl. red, very rarely nearly white. Carpophore narrow, short. 

 The E. B. figures are not accurate in the form of the calyx-teeth. 

 Both No. 4 and 5 vary in colour from red to white and white to 

 red. — Damp hedgebanks. B. (?) V. VI. Red Campion. 



6. L. Githago (Lam.) ; pet. entire or emarginate crownless, 

 calyx-teeth longer than the tube exceeding the petals, fl. solitary 

 upon long stalks. — Agrostemma (L.) E. B. 741. St. 5. 6.--F1. 

 large, purple. St. dichotomous, 2 — 3 feet high. Cal. coriaceous, 

 ribbed, with 5 linear-lanceolate constantly erect-patent very long 

 segments. Caps. 5-toothed. — Corn-fields. A. Xl. — VIII. Com 

 Cockle. 



Suborder II. Alsinece. 



6. BuFFONiA Linn. 



[1. B. annua (DC); " st. loosely panicled from the base, 

 branches spreading short firm, striae on the calyx straight parallel, 

 caps, scarcely equalling the calyx, 1. subulate spreading at the 

 base." DC. — B. tenuifolia Sm., E. B. 1313. — Said to have been 

 found near Boston, Line, and on Hounslow Heath. A. VI.] E. 



