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spatliulate or obovate obtuse ; st. single erect or branched and 
straggling, branches spreading divaricate ; rac. terminal single 
or in pairs viscid-hairy; fl. secund alternate ; cal. villous tubular, 
in fr. ovate ventricose, the teeth narrow-acuminate or subulate ; 
pet. obovate mostly undivided and irregularly crenulate, rarely 
subbifid or entire ; carpophore rather short ; lower pedic. in fr. 
often spreading or reflexed. — WB. i. 138 ; Koch 109. 3. anglica 
Bab. 45. — Herb. ann. Mad., PS., reg. 1, 2, 3, ccc; N, M, and 
S. D. c. Cornfields and waste ground everywhere, a universal 
weed. March-June, but at almost all seasons. — St. 4-12 in. 
high often simple erect. Rac. 2-4 in. long. FI. rather pretty 
varying from deep pink or rose to white, their throat crowned 
with erect bifid scales. Var. : 
a. vulgaris ; rac. mostly many-flowered, fl. imbricate or crowded, 
pet. undivided finely crenulate immaculate, fr. mostly erect. — 
3. gallica (L.) DC. i. 371 ; Buch 196. no. 354. 3. cerastoides DC. 
1. 372 ; Presl 149 (not Linn, ex Koch 1. c.). 3. lusitanica (L.) 
Desf. i. 347 ; Brot. ii. 184. — In sunny places everywhere. 
/3. quinquevulnera ; pet. with a deep crimson or blood-red 
spot, mostly undivided but sometimes obcordate or subbifid ; 
pedic. in fr. all erect. — S. gallica (3. Koch 1. c. 3. anglica (3. 
Bab. 1. c. S. quinquevulnera (L.) EB. t. 86 ; Desf. i. 348 ; Sm. 
E. Fl. ii. 292 ; DC. i. 372. — In drier, poorer or scantier soil, as 
on walls, &c. More hirsute in Madeira than a, with shorter 
often simple st. and equally dense many-flowered rac. 
y, anglica ; less hirsute; st. spreading branched diffuse, fl. 
axillary or remote in leafy elongated rac., pet. often slightly 
cloven or obcordate, pedic. of lower fl. spreading or reflexed. — 
S. gallica y. Koch 1. c. 3. anglica a. Bab. 1. c. 3. anglica (L.) 
EB. t. 1178 ; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 291 ; DC. i. 371. — In moister richer 
soil or shady places, occasionally. 
S. lusitanica L. (Desf., Brot.) and 3. gallica (3. Koch differ 
respectively from a and [3 in having the fr. spreading or reflexed ; 
whilst 3. quinquevulnera EB. t. 86 ( S . anglica (3. Bab.) differs 
from $ in its diffusely branched st. and lax leafy few-flowered 
rac. much as y (S. anglica L.) differs from a ( 3 . gallica L.). 
But it would be endless to define the multifarious forms of this 
very variable pi. dependent upon soil and situation. I have there- 
fore abstained from making the Mad. pi. a and [3 distinct varr. 
2. S. NOCTURNA L. 
Shortly and closely furry-pubescent ; st. and branches quite 
erect rather tall ; 1. lanceolate, the upper linear, the lower 
spathulate and fringed or ciliate with long hairs at the base ; 
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