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

 Dotclied eacli with a double awlshaped scale, cal. and 1. smootli, 

 caps, clavate, at. viscid. — E. B. 1398. St. 21. 4. — Chester, now 

 lost. Yalding, Kent. Between Par Station and Fowey Point, 

 Cornwall. A. VH.] E. 



\_S. alpes'tris (Jacq.) ; cal. topshaped short, st. dichotomous, 

 fl. axillary and terminal, calyx -teeth ovate blunt, pet. crowned, 

 limb with 4 teeth, caps, oblong twice as long as the calyx, seeds 

 crested, 1. lanceolate. — "On a rock on a mountain to the east of 

 Clova, Angus-shire, Mr. G. Bon.^^ !] S. 



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

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

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

 cUiate below. — E. B. 1081. R. 6084. — ^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 

 calyx. Plants somewhat dioecious. — On the higher mountains. 

 P. VII. Vm. CvAion Pink. E. S. I. 



5. Ltch'nis Linn. Campion. 

 * Cal. tubular, not inflated ; teeth short. 



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

 viscid below the joinings, 1. lanceolate glabrous the margins 

 woolly at the base, fl. racemose-panicled somewhat whorled, 

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

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

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

 very rare. P. VI. E. S. 



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

 not at all viscid, 1. Hnear-lanoeolate 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 smaU tubercles upon 

 each petal. Caps. 5-aelled when young. Seeds reniform, minute, 

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

 Hobcarten Crag, Cumb. (2000 ft.). P. \1. Til. E. S. 



3. L. Flos-cAculi (L.) ; pet. deeply deleft crowned, segments 

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

 flexed bail's, 1. lanceolate the lower ones narrowed below, fl. 

 loosely panicled, caps. 1-ceUed, teeth 5, carpophore very short. 

 — E. B. 573. — St. viscid and brownish above, 1 — 2 feet high. 

 Pet. rose-coloured, the crown bipartite; aegm. subulate erect, 



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