•50 14. CAEYOPHTLLACEJE. 



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

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

 VI. VII.] E. S. 



3. S. Otites (Sm.) ; panicle long witli 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. — 

 E. B. 85. — Fl. subdioecious, small, yellowish. Caps, sessile. 

 St. viscid at about the middle, 1 foot high. L. mostly radical. 

 — Sandy and gravelly places in Suff., Norf. and Cambridgeshire. 

 P. VI. E. 



4. 8. infldta (Sm.) ; panicle terminal, fl. many drooping, cal. 

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

 ments narrow, 1. elliptic-lanceolate, stem erect. — E. B. 164. — 

 Glabrous, smooth. St. 2 — 3 feet high. Inflorescence between 

 corymbose and panicled. Pet. white. Cal. inflated especially be- 

 low, its mouth narrower than its base. Bracts scariou^. Branches 

 of panicle unequal. Scented at night. Sometimes 8. puberula 

 (Jord.) ; the St. and 1. are rough with hairs, and cal. downy. — 

 Fields and roadsides. — ^P. VI. — VIII. Bladder Campion. White- 

 bottle. E. S. I. 



5. 8. marit 'ima (With.) ; panicle terminal,__^. few usually soli- 

 tary erect, cal. inflated netted, p)et. crovmed, segments broad, 1. 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, st. spreading decumbent, fl.- 

 shoots ascending. — E. B. 157. — Barren procumbent shoots form- 

 ing a cushion. Fl. larger than those of Sp. 4. Cal. elliptic, 

 its mouth broader than its base, most inflated above the middle. 

 Bracts herbaceous. — Near the sea, also by alpine rills. P. VI. — 

 VIII. E. S. I. 



6. 8. con'ica (L.) ; st. erect forhed, fl. from the forks or ter- 

 minal, cal. leith ZO furrows conical in fruit, teeth subulate acute, 

 pet. obcordate crowned, 1. linear subulate downy, caps, oblong- 

 ovate.—E. B. 922. S. conoidea R. — St. 3 — 12 in. high, simple 

 or branched. Cal. of the flowers conical-tubular, rounded below ; 

 of the fruit very broad at the base. Carpophore very short. 

 Fl. reddish. — Sandy fields, rare. A. V. VI. E. 



7. 8. noctifldra (L.) ; st. erect repeatedly forked, fl. from the 

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

 in fruit elliptic-oblong, teeth long subulate, pet. deeply bifid 

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

 291. 8t. 3. 10. — Ptesembling Lychnis vespertina. St. about 1 foot 

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

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

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

 dular. — Sandy and gravelly fields, rare. A. VII. VIII. E. S. 1. 



