112 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Capsule, with the persistent calyx and the withered petals. 2. A 

 seed. 3. Vertical section of the same, showing the embryo and albu- 

 men. — All magnified. 



3. SlLENE INFLATA, Smith. 



Hab. On rocks, east of Funchal ; island of Madeira. 



4. SlLENE QUINQUEVULNERA, Linn. 



Hab. Valparaiso. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Sydney, New 

 South Wales. — A South European species (including S. Gallica, S. 

 Anglica, and S, cerastoides, Linn.), now widely distributed and natu- 

 ralized on the coasts, in many of the subtropical and warmer tempe- 

 rate parts of the world. It has not been previously noticed in New 

 Zealand, where it is doubtless of very recent and probably local 

 introduction. 



5. Silene Antirrhina, Linn. 



Hab. Kio Negro, Northern Patagonia ; on sand-hills. 



The specimen is entirely in fruit, and not in a condition for critical 

 comparison with the plant of the United States ; but, except that the 

 pods are rather large, it appears to belong to this species; which, 

 moreover, St. Hilaire gathered at Maldonado (Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 164). 



3. GYPSOPHILA, Linn. 



1. Gypsophila australis. 



G. annua; cauZibns panicidato-ramosis erectis fere e basi usque ad 



' apicem floriferis minutissime pubendis ; foliis linearibm angustissimis 



obtusiiisculis, ramealibus setaceis; pedicellis filiformibus patentibus 



