SILENE. 
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much branched and cespitose prostrate, often elongated pendu- 
lous; 1. smaller fringed with minute cartilaginous points or 
teeth; cymes small 1-3-few-flowered, cal. smaller less in- 
flated oblong, pet. w. not crowned but bituberculate. — Novit. 
28 or 550. — Mad. reg. 3, c. Rib. de S ta Luzia and other ravines, 
generally hanging in long dense entangled flowery masses down 
perpendicular rocks. June-Aug. 
y. maritima ; altogether (except the fl.) smaller than a, very 
smooth glaucous; st. prostrate ascending often cespitose; 1. 
smaller fringed or serrulate with minute cartilaginous teeth ; 
cymes small 1-3-flowered, rarely more compound ; fl* larger 
than in a, cal. generally less inflated or more oblong with a 
violet or purple tint, pet. w., generally but not always crowned 
with conspicuous bifid scales. — S. infuaia Hook. 1. c. S. ma- 
ritima (With.) Sm. E. Fl. ii. 293 ; EB. t. 957 ; Bab. 46. S. uni- 
Jiora Roth ex Sm., Koch, &c., 11. cc. — Mad. reg. 1, cc ; PS. reg. 1, 
2, 4, e; ND. ccc; GD. cc; SB. ccc. Sea-coast and cliffs, 
Machico, Ponta S. Louren 9 o, Paul do Mar, &c. ; Porto Santo, 
hills on the coast to the eastward, Ponta de Guilherme on the 
N. coast, Zimbral d’Area, and top of Pico de Conselho. — Passes 
by a thousand intermediate gradations into a. 
4. S. ignobilis Lowe. 
Nearly or quite smooth not viscous more or less glaucous; 
st. erect dichotomously branched ; 1. oblong-lanceolate, the 
lower spathulate, the margin cartilaginous often denticulate 
with minute points or teeth ; fl. remote single solitary stalked 
erect ; cal. at first oblong or subclavate, then ovate or elliptic 
membranous not inflated 10-striated reticulate upwards, the 
teeth rounded-ovate and obtuse ; pet. inconspicuous small deeply 
cloven, their lobes equal ligulate or oblong rounded or obtuse 
crowned with 2 erect truncate scales at the base, scarcely longer 
than the cal. -teeth ; fr. ovate ventricose urceolate or barrel- 
shaped, carpophore very short. — Novit. 27 or 549. S. Pseudo- 
bchen Boiss. Diagn. PI. Orient. 36, 37 ; Walp. Rep. ii. 778. — Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, rr ; PS. reg. 2, r. Cornfields, Ponta S. Lou- 
ren^o ; and in PS., between the town and Fonte d’Area. March- 
May. — St. 9-12 in. high branched leafy. L. rather large and 
broad sometimes subc-iliate towards the base. Fl. single in the 
forks of the stem and axils, stalked erect inodorous. Pet. dull 
lilac-pink or flesh-colour deeply and equally 2-lobed, the cor. 
thus appearing 10-petalous; sometimes abortive. Fr. rather 
lar^e erect. Caps, finely and obsoletely granulated. Seeds 
rather large subechinulate most elegantly ribbed and cancel- 
lated. 
The “more or less velvety -pubescent” variety (Novit. 549) 
is a mistake, caused by some intermixture or confusion with 
