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11. C ARYOPHYLLACE JE . 
gin keeled or winged. — L. with scarious stip., free not 
connate at the base. 
6. Spergularia. Sep. 5. Pet. 5 entire. Stam. 10, the 
outer fil. with 2 short glands at their base. Styles 3. 
Caps. 3-valved many-seeded. Seeds either triangular or 
l'oundish-obovate compressed and apterous, or lenticular 
and keeled or winged. — L. with scarious stip., free not 
connate at the base. (Lepigonum Fr.) 
* * Valves of caps, twice as many as the styles. 
7. Arenaria. Sep. 5. Pet. 5 entire or retuse. Stam. 10. 
Styles 3. Caps. 6-valved many-seeded. Seeds reniform 
apterous. — L. without stip., connate at the base. 
8. Stellaria. Sep. 5. Pet. 5 bifid or bipartite. Stam. 10. 
Styles 3. Caps. 6-valved many-seeded. — L. without stip., 
connate at the base. 
9. Cerastium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5 bifid or notched. Stam. 10, 
5, 4. Styles 5, 4. Caps, cylindric tubular 10-8-valved 
or toothed at the apex many-seeded. — L. without stip., 
connate at the base. 
Suborder I. SILENEiE. 
1. Dianthus L. 
1. D. PROLIFER L. 
FI. in a dense close scaly head, involucral scales 6 membra- 
nous pellucid scarious elliptic, the 2 outer short and mucronate, 
the inner very obtuse equal to or a little longer than the cal. ; 
st. smooth ; i. linear smooth ; seeds boatshaped granulate. — 
Desf. i. 344; Brot. ii. 176; EB. t. 956; I)C. i. 355; Buch 196. 
no. 352; Sm. E. FI. ii. 286 ; Presll45; WB.i.135; Koch 102; 
Bab. 44. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c ; PS. reg. 2, rrr. Dry 
.sunny barren places in Madeira general, particularly beyond 
Camera de Lobos ascending Cabo Girao. At all seasons. — 
St. 6-12 in. high erect and solitary or several from the same 
root ascending geniculate. L. remote few finely serrulate. FI. 
small pink or rose-colour scentless not more than 1 or 2 opening 
together in long succession from the hard compact ovate head 
which is coated with about 6 outer dry brown chaffy shining 
smooth scales. 
2. Silene L. 
* FI. in seeund or distichous racemes or spikes. ( Stachy - 
morplia Otth. in DC., Viscago Koch.) 
1. S. gallica (L.) Webb and Berth. 
More or less hirsute; 1. lanceolate or oblong, the lower 
