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tt Flowers white or purple, perfect, 5-parted. 



'2. S. TeUphium (L.) ; uppermost I. long-mal dentate rounded 

 at the base and seasiUf lower 1. obovate or oblong narrowed be- 

 low, corymb dense, ocaries flattened and slightly /K?ro«'C(/ on tlie 

 hack. — JR. I. IMiri. jS'. purpurascens Koch, Sy. E, B. 526. — St. 

 I — 2 feet high. L. large, often orbicular. Pet. recurved from 

 the middle, faintly channelled at the end. Stam. 10. — [In .S. 

 mammuin Sut., R. I. 939. -St. 8-3. 7, the lower 1 are broad, the 

 uppermost cordate at the base, the back of the ovaries convex.] 

 — 'Hedge-banks and thickets. P, VII. ^'III. Oipine. Live- 

 long. E. .S. 1. 



3. S. Fabdiia (Koch) ; 1. dentate ohlong-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late all nan-owed to a slight petiole, corymb dense, ovaries not 

 furrowed. — Sy. S.B. 6-2i. St. S.3. 9. S. purpureum 1ax\s(ih.. — 

 Resembling <S. Telcphium. Pet. spreading. Stam. 10.— Hedges 

 and thickets. P. YIII. Orpine. lAve-limg. E. I. 



** Root small, iveaJi, without any rooting shoots. L. subterete. 



4. S. viUdsum (L.) ,' st. erect, 1. linear blunt flat above not pro- 

 duced at the base, pet. ovate acute, I. st. and panicle glandvlar- 

 puhescent. — E. B. 344. St. 6. 12. — Pet. rose-coloured with a 



urple streak. St. 3 — 4 in. high. Seedlings with a rosette.^ 

 Tet mountain pastures. B. VI. ^TI. E. S. 



*** Root small, producing rooting shoots. Leaves subterete. 



t Flowers white. Leaves blunt. 



5. S. album (L.) ; flowering st. erect, bai-ren st. procumbent 

 rooting, I. oblong subcylindrical flattened above spreading, pet. 

 lanceolate, panicle much branched glabrous. — E. B. 1579. — Pet. 

 white. St. 4 — 5 in. high, purplish, leafy, — [p. S. micraMhum 

 (Bast.) ; 1. oblong-obovate flattened on both sides blunt. Sy. 

 E. B. 529.1 — Rocks and waU^^, not common. [0. Arundel.] 

 P. VII. VIII. E. 



6. 6'. dasyphyl'liim (L.) ; flmcering and baiTen st. prnmtmbent, 

 I. oroid fleshy gibbous, pet. and Sep. ovate blunt, panicle small 

 glandular-pubescent. — E. B. 656. — Pet. white. Sep., pet., and 

 carp, often in sixes. L. very short and thick, glaucous, often 

 tino-ed with red, opposite on the barren shoots. Flowering st. 

 .3 — 4 in. long. — Rocks and walls, rare. P. VI. 'S'll. E. I. 



7. S. ang'licum (Huds.) ; st. procumbent at the base ascending, 

 I. ovoid fleshy gibbous spurred at the base, pet. lanceolate acute, 

 Sep. ovate bluntish, cyme bifid smooth. — E. B. 717. — Pet. white 

 spotted vrith red. L. mostly alternate. Flowering st. 3 — 6 in. 

 long. — Sandy and rocky places, A. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



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