Monogr. Gat. Silene (1868) p. 85; Williams, Rev. Gen. Silene (1896) p. 47; KptiJi. Oji. 

 A.IT. I (1901) p. 142. 



Near Karatus, along the road, in dry, open foliferous copse wood. Flowering in 

 the first half of July. The specimens are completely glabrous, the leaves narrow, lanceo- 

 late, the length 5—7 times the breadth, distinctly tapering towards the base, never cordate 

 or rounded, glabrous, or nearly imperceptibly scabrous at the margin. The flowers are 

 short-pedicelled and rather densely congested. 



Distribution: Europe, Caucasia and south-western Asia to the Himalayas, the 

 whole of Siberia from the Ural to the Amoor Province, Mongolia (till now not observed 

 in China), Japan, North Africa, North America (introduced). 



Silene repens Patrin. in Pers. Syn. PL I (1805) p. 500; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 150; 

 Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 23; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 223; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. 

 Alt. no. 159; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 308; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 579, no. 

 212; Regel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 560; Rohrbach, Monogr. Gat. Silene (1868) p. 206; Wil- 

 Uams, Rev. Gen. Silene (1896) p. 161; KpBiJi. $ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 144. 



In dry meadows and on rocky declivities between Karatus and Kushabar. In full 

 flower in the first half of June. Near Ust Tara-kem, on rocky slopes, past flowering 

 in the middle of August. The leaves in the specimens collected are on an average 3 

 mm. broad, and 35 — 40 mm. long; the calyx is tubular-campanulate or clavate, pink, 

 densely villous, its teeth short It is, therefore, probably identical with ;' angustifolia 

 Turczan. 1. c. 



Distribution: Central and eastern Russia, and adjoining portions of Asia through 

 Trans Caspia and Turkestan, Siberia to Kamtchatka, northern Mongolia, China, Man- 

 chooria, Corea, Sakhalin, Japan. 



Silene chlorantha Ehrh. Beitr. Naturk. VII (1792) p. 146; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. H, p. 145; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. L p. 319 et 778; Rohrbach, Monogr. Gat Silene (1868) p. 184; Williams, 

 Rev. Gen. Silene (1896) p. 141; Kptui. 4>ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 148. 



var. glutinosa nov. var. 



Differt a specie tgpica internodiis superioribus zonis viscosis, fuconigris. 12 — 15 mm. 

 latis instructis. 



The specimens collected agree perfectly in their external habitus with the typical 

 species, but differ by the 3 or 4 uppermost internodes under the flower cluster being 

 furnished with a dark, brownish black, and glutinous zone, from 12 to 15 mm. broad. 

 The calyx is of a characteristically pale, greyish green colour, completely glabrous, only 

 the teeth being densely and finely ciliate. Collected in full flower in the first half of July, 

 in grass-grown, dry thickets of fir, between Minusinsk and Kushabar. 



Distribution: Middle, southern and eastern Europe, Caucasia and south-western 

 Asia, southern Siberia, eastwards to about the Yenisei. 



Silene Otites (L.) Smith, Fl. Brit H (1800) p. 469; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 140; Karel. 

 et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 151; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 309; Kptiji. $jr. Ajit. I (1901) 



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