63 CARYOPHVLLACE^. [Sikne. 



2. S. maritima, With. Sea-side Bladder Campion. " Panicles 

 few-flowered, petals with a shallow cleft and broad segments 

 crowned, calj'x inflated reticulated, stem spreading, leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate or spathulate."— 5r. Fl. p. 58. E. B. t. 957. 



0. Leaves spinulose on their edges. 



On sandy or shingly sea-beach, and on clififs and pastures near the sea, not 

 common and perhaps not really distinct from the last. Fl. June— September. 2^. 



E. A/ed.— Brading harbour, W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. Dover Point, Kyde, 

 sparingly, Mr. Snook. 



W. Med. — Shore between Cowes and Egypt, in some plenty. 



iS. On the cliflF behind Mirables, in the part called the Upper Walks, G. Kirlc- 

 pairick, Esq. 



** Stems panicled, leafy. Calyx elongate, not bladdery. 



3. S. nutans, L. Nottingham Catchfly. " Pubescent, flowers 

 panicled secund cernuous, branches opposite, calyx cylindrical 

 ventricose the teeth acute, petals deeply cloven crowned their 

 segments linear, leaves (of the stem) lanceolate." — Br.Fl.-p.69. 

 E. B. t. 465. S. paradoxa, Sm. Fl. Br. (not L.) 



On sand, chalk or limestone rocks, cliffs, banks and pastures ; rare. Fl. May, 

 June. i^r. June, July. If. 



E. Med. — In very great plenty on banks of slipped land at the foot of the cliffs 

 in Sandown bay, at its upper end, near where the green sandstone passes into the 

 chalk. At the top of the cliff near St. Lawrence, John Curtis, Esq. (1. s. c.) !!! 



Root large, thick, yellowish, tapering, branched and almost woody, emitting 

 one or several flowering stems, and many decumbent leafy shoots constituting 

 dense tufts of herbage. Stems 18 or 20 inches high, simple, rigid, erect or more 

 usually ascending at the base, the lower joint geniculate and often tinged with 

 purple, round, solid, downy with deflexed pubescence, smoother from the lower- 

 most forks of the panicle to the summit, but covered with a clammy exudation 

 capable in this and others of the genus of retaining small flies, whence the Eng- 

 lish name. Leaves rough with copious, short, simple, jointed hairs ; those of the 

 stem few (2 or .S pairs), distant, opposite, linear-lanceolate, erect, embracing the 

 tumid joints of the stem with their connate bases ; radical leaves fascicled, on long 

 tapering footstalks, ovate or obovate-lanceolate, partly spathulate. Panicle ter- 

 minal, sometimes a foot long, of several distant pairs of opposite, suberect or 

 spreading, forked and downy branches, each bearing from 3 to 6 or 7 flowers, all 

 those of the same panicle leaning one way, and appearing to droop, from being 

 bent downwards at various angles to their rectilinear pedicels. Calyx | an inch 

 long, viscid and downy, narrow and ovate in flower, much enlarged above in fruit 

 with 10 coloured ribs. Petals twice as long as the calyx, white tinged with green- 

 ish yellow at the back, deeply cleft into 2 linear obtuse segments having a bifid, 

 acute, white scale at the base just above their very long claws, whose broad mem- 

 branous summits terminate in two points. Stamens very long, with pale greenish 

 anthers. Styles 3, erect, twisted, much shorter than the stamens ; stigmas oblique, 

 decurved and purplish. Germen oblong-obtuse. Capsules erect, straw-yellow, 

 ovate or conical, very hard and smooth, obscurely 3-lobed and 6-ribbed, gibbous 

 beneath at the base, partly covered with the dry withered calyx, and opening by 

 a small orifice with 6 (rarely 5) erect or spreading, very rigid teeth. Seeds nume- 

 rous, ash-coloured or reddish, roundish kidney-shaped, flattened on the back and 

 sides, beautifully marked with close rows of raised points in parallel striae. 



The flowers of S. nutans expand most perfectly during the evening and night, 

 emitting a peculiar though agreeable fragrance. On first opening, the petals are 

 flat and reflexed, but afterwards and in the day time incline forward and roll 

 inwards, which, together with the adhesion of dust, flies and other substances to 



