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obovate retuse blade, white or pink, often double. — Spec. 408; Eng. 
Bot. xv. t. 1060; Pursh. Fl 314; Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 195. — Road- 
sides and waste ground, common; July to the end of October. 
(Naturalized from Europe.) 
5. SILENE, L. Carcurry, Campion. (Name from SeAnvds, in 
reference to the viscid excretion of many species, the Greek god having 
been described as covered with foam; also derived directly from ciadov, 
saliva.) — A large genus of attractive plants inhabiting chiefly the 
northern temperate parts of the Old World, but also well represented 
in North America, especially in the Pacific region, where it has 
lately been necessary to increase considerably the number of species. 
Although the members of the genus present considerable diversity of 
habit and floral characters, yet they do not fall into well marked 
groups and the elaborate subdivision of the genus suggested by Rohr- 
bach cannot be satisfactorily carried out among our American species. 
— Gen. n. 372; Otthin DC. Prodr. i. 367; Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 189; 
Fenzl in Ledeb. FI. Ross. i. 8303; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 269- 
301; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 147; Rohrb. Monog. der Gatt. Silene ; 
Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 340, & Bibl. Index, 106. 
* Annuals, mostly introduced. 
+ Inflorescence simply racemose, or subspicate ; pedicels solitary. 
S. Gatrica, L. Stem hirsute with white jointed hairs: leaves 
spatulate, obtuse, mucronate, hirsute-pubescent on both sides, 8-18 
lines in length: racemes terminal, one-sided, 2—4 inches long : flowers 
more or less pedicellate :. calyx 10-nerved, villous-hirsute, slender and 
subcylindric in anthesis, becoming in fruit broadly ovoid, with con- 
tracted orifice and short narrow spreading teeth: petals usually little 
exceeding the calyx; the blade obovate, somewhat bifid, toothed or 
entire. — Spec. 417; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnea, i. 40; Rohrb. 1. c. 
96. S. Anglica, L. 1. c. 416. — Apparently of European origin but 
now cosmopolitan ; locally common on the Pacific slope from British 
Columbia to Lower California ; occasionally in cultivated fields in the 
Atlantic States; April-July. The-typical form has very short ascend- 
ing pedicels and white or pink flowers. S. Lusrrantca, L. I. c. 416, 
is a form with the lower pedicels elongated, equalling or exceeding 
the calyx, and becoming horizontal in fruit. Tolon, Calif., Brandegee. 
(Europe. ) , 
Var. QuinquevuLNERA, Koch. Petals more showy, subentire, 
deep crimson with a white or pink border. — Synop. Fl. Germ. et Helv. 
100. §. quinquevulnera, L. 1. c. 416. — With the typical form. 
