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cloven scarcely ever crowned : segments nan-ow, 1. ellijrtical- 
lanceolate, stem erect (young seeds white). — E. B. 164. R. 5120. 
— Glabrous, smooth. St. 2 — .4 feet high. Inflorescence between 
corymbose and jianicled. Pet. white. Cal. often tinged with 
purple, glabrous. — hirsuta (Leigbt.) ; st. and 1. rough with 
hairs. “ Cal. downy.” Hooker. — Fields and roadsides, ji. rarer. 
P. YI. — VIII. Bladder Campion. 
6. S. maritima (With.); panicle terminal, /ew usually soli- 
tary erect, cal. inflated bladdery reticulated with acute teeth, pet. 
slightly cloven crowned: segments broad, 1. lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, St. spreading decumbent, fl. shoots ascending, {young 
seeds purple). — E. B. 957. — Sandy and stony sea-shores, also hy 
alpine rills. P. VI. — VIII. Sea Bladder Campion. 
7. S. conica (L.) st. erect forked, fl. from the forks or terminal, 
cal. with 30 furrows conical in fi-uit umbilicate below : teeth 
subulate acute, pet. obcordate cromred, 1. linear-subulate domiy, 
caps, oblong -ovate. — E.B. 922. S. conoidea i?. 5061. — St. 3 — 
12 in. high, simple or branched. Cal. of the flowers conical- 
tnhular, rounded helow, of the fruit very hroad at the hase. 
Cai-jrophore very short. Fl. reddish. — In sandy fields, rare. 
A. V.— VII. 
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. deejrly bifid 
cromied, 1. 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, domiy and glandular. Carpophore very 
short. F'l. redchsh-white, rather large, sweet-scented in the 
evening, peduncles glandular. — Sandy and gravelly fields. A. 
VII. VIII. 
[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. 
St. 21. 4. — Half a mile below Chester on the banks of the Dee, 
now lost. Yalding, Kent. Mr. E. Edwards. A. VII.] E. 
[10. S. alpestris (Jacq.) ; cal. topshaped short, st. dichoto- 
mous, fl. axillary and temiinal, calyx-teeth ovate-obtuse, pet. 
crowned : limb with 4 teeth, caps, oblong twice as long as the 
calyx, seeds cristate-ciliate, 1. lanceolate. — A specimen of this 
plant, gathered by the late Mr. G. Don “ on a rock on a moun- 
tain to the east of Clova, Angus-shire,” is in Mr. Borrer’s Her- 
barium.] 
11. S. acaulis (L.); st. densely tufted and much branched, 
solitary, peduncles and cal. glabrous, cal. bellshaped with 10 
