The BRITISH HERBAL. 
are large and white, and have the petals divided 
down the middle fo that they feem compofed of 
ten inftead of five. 
The feed-veflel is large: the feeds are fmall 
and blackifh. 
It is not uncommon in our northern counties 
on rocks. 
It flowers in July. The flowers open after 
fun fct : at fun-rife next morning they draw to- 
gether, but after fun-fet they open a3ain ; fo that 
the pLiiit is in its full bloom only in the night. 
The ftalks of this plant, juft under the flowers, 
are fometimes a little clammy, 
Ray calls it Lychnis major nGEHJlora duhrenfis 
perennis. 
12. Red night flowering Campion. 
Lychnis no^iflora flore nthello. 
The root is long, flender, and has but few 
fibres. 
The firfl: leaves are oblong, broad, of a pale 
green, not at all indented, and obtufe at the 
ends. 
The flalks are numerous, flender, jointed, and 
a foot and half high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are oblong and 
obtufe. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalk and 
branches, and are fma!!, and of a faint, unpleaf- 
ing red : they are generally fhut and look faded . 
in the day-time ; but they open at night. 
The feed-veflTel is oval, and the feeds are fmall, 
and of a dark brown. 
It is found in the corn-fields of Surry, but not 
common. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis noSlifiora. J. Bau- 
hine, Ocymoides non fpeciofiim. 
13. Red narrow-leaved clammy Camj.ion. 
Lychnis vifcofa rubra anguJiifoUa. 
The root is long, thick, divided, and often 
hung with numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in tufts from feveral divi- 
fions at the head ; and they are loog, narrow, 
Iharp-pointed, without footftalks, and of a deep 
but unpleafant green. 
The ftalk is fingle, upright, and a foot and 
half high. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and are oblong, and 
of a frefh and fine green : they are broadeft in 
the middle, undivided at the edges, and fharp- 
pointed. 
The flowers ftand in a beautiful and regular 
clnfter at the top of the ftalk: they are fmall 
and of a bright red. 
The feed-veflel is oval and large \ and the 
feeds are numerous and fmall. 
It is found in Scotland, and in fome of our 
northern counties, on rocks and mountains. It 
flowers in May. 
The tops of the ftalks in this fpecies are very 
clammy ; inibmuch that it is common to fee flies 
entangled on them : hence this and other of the 
campioyjs which have this quality are called catch- 
fiics. 
C. Bauhine calls this Lychnis fyhejlris vifcofa 
anguftifoUa. In England it is generally called 
Gertiian catchf^. 
14. Mofty-flowered clammy Campion. 
Lychnis vifcofa fioribus mufcofis. 
The root is long, thick and furniflied with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves are very numerous % and they 
lie fpread upon the ground in a regular manner : 
they have a kind of long footftalks, and they are 
broad, fliort, undivided, and obtufe : the foot- 
ftalks, though commonly called fuch, are more 
properly only a continuation of the kaves, in a 
narrower form, down to the root. 
The ftalk is round, upright, and of a pale green- 
The leaves ftand in paiis, and are Jong, and 
expand into breadth at the ends : they have 
young ftioots in all their bofoms ; fo that the 
plant appears well covered with them. 
The flowers ftand at the tops oi the rtaiks, 
and are numerous, but very fmall i and of a 
yellowifli green; the threads in them are very 
confpicuousi and the whole have, as C. Bauhine 
expreffes it, a mofly appearance. 
The fecd-velici is oval and fmall \ and the 
feeds are imaU. 
It is common about Newmarket, and in many 
other parts of Hngland in gravelly loils. U 
flowers in June. 
Tlie tops of the ftalks are clammy in this, aa 
in the other laft -named fpecies. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lychnis vifcofa ftore mufcofo. 
Others, Sefunoides falamanticum magnum. J. Bau- 
hine calls it Ocyraoidcs beiliforme Jive miifcipula miif-* 
cofo flore, Son]e, Spoiujh catchfiy. 
15. Dwarf mountain Campion. 
Lychnis montana minima. 
This is a very Angular plant j it is fcarce more 
than an inch in height, but it grows in fuch 
clufters that it is very confpicuous ; and, when 
in flower, very beautiful : at other times it may 
be taken for a tuft of mofs, and eafily paflTed over 
unregarded. 
When viewed in the clufter it appears a thick 
tuft of ftaort, green leaves, with numerous large, 
red flower.s ftuck irregularly among them, and 
fcarce feeming to belong to them : to fee the 
ftrufture of the plant, an entire one mufi be fe- 
parated from the clufter. 
The root is very long, thick, and Irregular in 
fliiipe : it is brown on the furface, and has a 
few fibres. 
The leaves rife from the head of this' root, and 
are very numerous, fliort, narrow, fiiarp pointed, 
and of a frefli green. 
In the centre of thefe riles the ftalk, on which 
ftands a fingle flower. 
This ftalk is round, weak, of a pale green, 
and often lefs than an inch in height. 
The flower is large, and of a pale but pretcy 
red. 
The feed-vcfi"el is oval and large; the feeds 
are fmall- 
It is common in Wales, and flowers in Miy 
and June. 
Its fmailncfs has led authors to call it by many 
names. 
J. Bauhine calls it Plufcus Alfinits pre infigni 
dilute ruhcntc. Farkinfon, Ocymoides mitfcofus 
Alpinus. Kay and others, Lychms Jlpina minima, 
A 16. Broad- 
