62 THE PINK FAMILY. 
Armeria), appear to have occasionally escaped from gardens, and sown 
themselves in some localities. Several other exotic species, especially 
S. compacta, S. vespertina, S. rubella, 8. Schafta, &c., are frequent orna- 
ments of our flower-beds. 
1. S. acaulis, Linn. (fig. 134). Dwarf S., Moss Campion.—This beautiful 
little mountain plant forms dense moss-like tufts, often many inches’ 
diameter, consisting of a much branched perennial stock, the very short 
branches covered with the remains of old leaves, and crowned by dense 
spreading clusters of short, green, linear, and glabrous leaves. From 
the centre of these arise the numerous flowers, either sessile or on 
1-flowered peduncles, which seldom attain an inch in length, Calyx 
broadly tubular or campanulate, quite glabrous, with rather obtuse 
teeth. Petals reddish-purple, obovate, slightly notched, with a small 
scale at the base of the lamina. 
In the mountains of northern and Arctic Europe, Asia, and America, — 
and, at considerable elevations, on the great mountain-ranges of central 
and southern Europe. Abundant in the mountains of Scotland, ex- 
tending more sparingly into the Lake district of England and into 
North Wales ; in Ireland found only in Donegal. Fl. summer. 
2. S. Cucubalus, Wibel. (fig. 135). Campion.—A perennial, loosely 
branched at the base, with ascending or seldom erect stems, from 6 
inches to above a foot long, of a glaucous green, and usually glabrous. 
Leaves ovate, oblong, or rarely nearly linear, and usually pointed. 
Flowers few, white, erect or slightly drooping, in loose terminal 
panicles. Calyx rather more than half an inch long, becomes at length 
almost globular, inflated, and much veined. Petals more or less deeply 
2-cleft, with a small scale at the base of the lamina, which sometimes 
disappears altogether, S. inflata, Sm. 
In fields, on banks, roadsides, and waste places, throughout Europe 
and Russian and central Asia, extending into the Arctic regions and to 
high alpine summits. Generally spread over Britain, but not very 
common. fl, allsummer. A sea-coast variety, more frequent in England 
and Ireland, with short diffuse stems, thicker, more obtuse leaves, 
almost solitary flowers, and larger scales on the petals, has been dis- 
tinguished as a species, under the name of S. maritima. 
3. S. Otites, Sm. (fig. 136). Spanish S.—Perennial stock short and 
tufted, with narrow leaves, as in S, nutans ; the stems simple, erect and 
stiff, with few leaves, about a foot high. Flowers dicecious, small and 
numerous, of a pale yellowish-green, arranged in loose opposite clusters, 
having the appearance of whorls, and forming a long, narrow panicle. 
Calyx scarcely 14 line long. Petals narrow and entire. Style and 
stamens projecting beyond the flower. 
In sandy fields and pastures, in central, southern, and especially 
eastern HKurope, and all across Russian Asia ; not so common in western 
Kurope, although extending to the sandy shores of the Atlantic. In 
Britain only in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. Fl. summer. 
‘4, S. nutans, Linn. ‘(137 ). Nottingham Catchfly.—Stock tufted and 
perennial, with a rather thick taproot, short, procumbent barren shoots, 
and erect flowering stems, 1 to 2 feet high, more or less hoary with 
short hairs, usually viscid in the upper part. Lower leaves oblong- 
obovate, pointed, narrowed into a long stalk, the stem-leaves few, 
narrow, and sessile. Flowers nodding in a loose, rather narrow panicle, 
