44 14. CARYOPHYLLACES. 
Carpophore as long as the capsule.—An escape from cultivation. 
The station at Dover is an error. P. VI. VIL] E.S. 
4. S. Otites (Sm.); panicle elongate with opposite tufted ver- 
ticillate-racemose branches, whorls many-flowered, peduncles 
glabrous, cal. faintly nerved smooth with obtuse teeth, pet. linear 
undivided not crowned, 1. lanceolate-spathulate, stem-l. small 
linear erect.—E. B. $5.—FI. imperfectly dicecious, small, yellow- 
ish. Caps. sessile. St. viscid at about the middle, 1 foot high. 
—Sandy and gravelly places in the east of England. P. VI. E, 
5. S. inflata (Sm.); panicle terminal, fl. numerous drooping, 
cal. inflated reticulated, pet. deeply cloven scarcely ever crowned, 
segments narrow, 1. elliptical-lanceolate, stem erect.—H. B. 164. 
—Glabrous, smooth. St.2—3 feet high. Inflorescence between 
corymbose and panicled. Pet. white. Cal. inflated especially 
below, mouth narrower than the base. Bracts scarious. Branches 
of panicle unequal. Scented at night.—. hirsuta (Leight.); st. 
and 1. rough with hairs. “Cal. downy.” Hooker.—Fields and 
roadsides. 8. rarer. P. VI.—VIII. Bladder Campion. 
6. S. maritima (With.); panicle terminal, fl. few usually soli- 
tary erect, cal. inflated reticulated, pet. crowned, segments broad, 
1. lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, st. spreading decumbent, fl. 
shoots ascending.—E. B. 957.—Barren procumbent shoots form- 
ing acushion. Fl. larger than those of No. 5. Cal. elliptical, 
mouth broader than base, most inflated above the middle. Bracts 
herbaceous.—Near the sea, also by alpine nills. P. VI.—VIII. 
7. 8S. conica (L.) st. erect forked, fl. from the forks or terminal, 
cal. with 30 furrows conical in fruit umbilicate below, teeth 
subulate acute, pet. obcordate crowned, |. hnear-subulate downy, 
caps. oblong-ovate.—E. B. 922. 8. 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.—In sandy fields, rare. A. V. VI. 
8. S. noctiflora (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, |. lanceolate lower ones obovate, caps. ovate —E. B. 
291. St. 3. 10.—L. much like those of S. inflata but longer. 
St. about 1 foot high, downy and glandular. Carpophore very 
short. Fl. reddish-white, rather large, sweet-scented in the 
evening, peduncles glandular.—Sandy and gravelly fields. A. 
VIL. VITI. 
{9. S. Armeria (L.); “ panicles forked many-flowered level- 
topped, pet. cloven each with a double awlshaped scale, cal. and 
1. smooth, caps. not longer than its stalk.” Sm.—E. B. 1398. 
