Lychnis.] XII, CARYOPHYLLACEM. 65 
to 2 feet high, slightly downy below and viscid above. Leaves few, 
narrow-lanceolate, the lower ones stalked. Flowers in loose terminal 
panicles, red and scentless, but remarkable for their petals cut into 4 
linear lobes, the two middle ones the longest. Calyx short, glabrous, 
with 10 ribs and 5 short teeth. Capsule nearly globular, opening in 
5 teeth. 
In moist or marshy meadows and pastures, ditches, &c., throughout 
Europe and Russian Asia, except the extreme north. Abundant in 
Britain. Fl. spring and summer. 
L. Viscaria, Linn. (fig. 145). Viseid £.—Stock perennial, usually 
tufted, the flowering stems erect, 6 inches to a foot high, glabrous, but 
very viscid in the upper part. Leaves long and narrow, the lower ones 
contracted into long stalks, which are often fringed with a few woolly 
hairs. Flowers red, in close, sessile or shortly stalked, opposite clusters, 
forming an oblong panicle, or sometimes a terminal head. Calyx tubu- 
lar, about 6 lines long, with 10 veins and 5 short teeth, rather swollen 
above the middle as the fruit ripens. Petals slightly notched. 
On rocks and rather dry hilly pastures, in northern and central Europe 
and a great part of Russian Asia, but not an Arctic plant, and yet rare 
in southern Europe. In Britain, confined to a few localities in North 
Wales and Scotland, especially about Edinburgh and in Perthshire. 
Fl, June. 
6. L. alpina, Linn. (fig. 146). Alpine L.—Like Z. Viscaria in habit 
and foliage, but smaller and not viscid. Stems seldom 6 inches high. 
Flowers pink, smaller than in LZ. Viscaria, in compact heads, the calyx 
much shorter, and the petals narrow and deeply 2-cleft. 
In rocky situations, at high latitudes or great elevations, in Arctic and 
northern Europe and Asia, and in the higher mountains of central Europe. 
In Britain, only known on the summit of Little Kilrannoch, in Forfar- 
shire, on Hobcartin Fell in Cumberland, and in Lancashire. Fl. summer. 
V. SAGINA. PEARLWORT. 
Small, matted or tufted herbs, with subulate leaves and small flowers. 
Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5, small, entire or slightly notched, some- 
times entirely deficient. Stamens 4 or 5, or twice those numbers. 
Styles 4 or 5. Capsule opening in as many valves. 
A small genus, with nearly the geographical range of Arenaria, from 
which it only differs in the number of styles. The 5-styled species 
were formerly included in Spergula, which is now reduced to one or two 
species easily distinguished by their apparently whorled foliage. 
Sepals, stamens, and styles usually 4. Petals as many ornone . 1. S. procumbens. 
Sepals, petals, and styles 5. Stamens usually 10. 
Sepals obtuse. 
Petals not longer than the calyx. Leaves not clustered 2. S. Linnert. 
Petals longer than the calyx. Upper leaves with clusters of 
very small ones in their axils. : . 3. S. nodosa. 
Sepals pointed ; ; . Arenaria verna. 
1. S. procumbens, rn flies 147). Pr ‘ocumbent P.—A minute 
annual, or perennial, 1 to 2 inches or seldom 38 inches high, sometimes 
erect from the base, especially at first, but usually branching and de- 
cumbent at the base, forming little spreading tufts, usually glabrous, but 
having often an exceedingly minute glandular down. Leaves small and 
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