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7. S. noctifl6ra (L.); st. erect repeatedly forked, fl. from the 

 forks or terminal, cal. veined and with 10 hairy glandular ribs 

 in fruit eUiptie-obloug, teeth long subulate, pet. deeply bifid 

 crowned, 1. lanceolate lower ones obovate, caps, ovate. — E. B. 

 201. St. 3. 10. — Resembhng Lychnis vespertina. St. about 1 foot 

 high, downy and glandular. Caps, opening with 6 patent teeth. 

 Carpophore very short. Fl. reddish white, rather large, sweet- 

 scented in the evening ; pet. rolled up by day ; peduncles glan- 

 dular.— Sandy and gravelly fields, rare. A. VII. VIIL E. S. I. 



\_S. Armaria (L.) ; pan. forked many-fl. level-topped, pet. 

 notched each with a double awlshaped scale, cal. and 1. smooth, 

 caps, clavate, st. viscid. — E. B. 1398. — Yalding, Kent. Between 

 Par and Fowey Point, Cornwall. A. VII.] E. 



8. S. acaulis (L.) ; st. densely tufted and much branched, fl. 

 solitary, peduncles and cal. glabrous, cal. bellshaped with 10 

 striae, teeth ovate blunt, pet. slightly notched crowned, 1. linear 

 ciliate below. — E. B. 1081. JR. 5084. — Forming broad dense 

 tufts 2 — 3 in. high. Fl. purple or white, upon longish solitary 

 stalks, sometimes nearly sessile. Caps, twice as long as the 

 caly^:. Plants somewhat dioecious. — On the higher mountains. 

 P. VII. Vin. Cushion Pink. E. S. I. 



5. Ltch'stis Linn. Campion. 

 * Cal. tubular, not inflated ; teeth short. 



1. L. Viscdria (L.); pet. emarginate crowned, st. glabrous 

 viscid below the joinings, 1. lanceolate glabrous the margins 

 woolly at the base, fi. raoemose-panicled somewhat whorled, 

 carpophore f the length of the capsule. — E. B. 788. — St. simple, 

 1 foot high. Fl. large, rose-coloured. Caps. 5-ceUed when 

 young. Seeds reniform, minute, acutely tuberchd. — Dry rocks, 

 very rare. P. VI. E. S. 



2. L. alpina (L.) ; pet. cloven scarcely crowned, st. glabrous 

 not at all viscid, 1. linear-lanceolate glabrous sometimes minutely 

 ciliate at the base, fl. corymbose, carpophore J the length of 

 the capsule. — E. B. -2254. — ^St. simple, 5 — 6 in. high. Fl. small, 

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

 each petal. Caps. 5-celled wlien young. Seeds reniform, minute, 

 bluntly iuberoled. — Mountains. Glen Isla, Forfar. (3200 it). 

 HobcartenCrag,Cumb. (2000 ft.). P. VI. VH. E. S. 



3. L. Flos-cumuli (L.) ; pet. deeply Arcleft crowned, segments 

 linear pahnately diverging, cal. with short teeth, st. with de- 

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



