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11. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 
this pi. of young’ or imperfect specimens of S. nocturna L. ob- 
served or collected by the late Dr. Charles Lemann. Except 
occasionally a few long hairs or cilia sprinkled on the edges of 
the 1., S. ignobilis is always, so far as I have seen, quite smooth. 
5. S. IN APERT a (L.) Ait. 
Erect dichotomously branched minutely and closely puberu- 
lous or furry-pubescent; branches divaricate stiff and rigid slender 
or filiform corymbose ; 1. inconspicuous small lanceolate acute, 
the lower subobtuse, the upper remote linear acuminate ; fl. in- 
conspicuous loosely corymbose erect, their stalks filiform often 
elongated nearly or quite smooth ; cal. slender narrow linear- 
clavate ; pet. linear slightly cloven or obcordate not longer than 
the cal. teeth ; caps, oblong or elliptic, carpophore not quite half 
its length. — Brot. ii. 188 ; Buch 196. no. 355 ; DC. i. 376 ; WB. 
i. 140. 8. jiliformis Novit. 27 or 549, not of Otth. in DC. — 
Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 2 ; r. Rocky barren waste ground amongst 
cornfields and dry beds of ravines ; ascent of the Rancho and 
Cabo Girao beyond Camera de Lobos ; bed of Rib. de Santa 
Luzia, &c. Sum., Aut. — Root fibrous decidedly annual. Whole 
pi. with a peculiar light slender appearance, finely hoary-pu- 
bescent below, smooth or nearly so upwards, 1-2 ft. high, with 
a thin very straight erect virgate st. and forked filiform branches 
forming a spreading loose corymbose cyme, with the inter- 
nodes often viscid. L. few remote small and inconspicuous 
soon falling. Cor. small abortive inconspicuous, not exserted ; 
pet. dull greenish-brown. Caps, oblong or cylindric. 
Viscago Icevis, &c. Dillen. Hort. Eltham. 424. t. 315. f. 407, seems 
to be distinct by its “ creeping filiform perennial root, ascending 
leafy few-flowered st., pet. cloven to the base, ovate caps.,” &c. 
The Madeiran pi. is however 8. inapertci of most authors, and 
certainly of the Hort. Kewensis and Banks. Herb. 
3. Agrostemma L. 
ffl. A. GiTIIAGO L. Corn Cockle. 
Pet. obcordate or retuse, half the length of the long linear 
acuminate sepals. — Brot. ii. 220; Sm. E. 11. ii. 325; EB. t. 741 ; 
Koch 117. Lychnis Qithago (Lam.) a, DC. i. 387; Bab. 48. 
Githaqo segetum Deaf. i. 363; WB. i. 144. — Mad. reg. 2; rrr. 
Once brought u from Rib. Frio” in October by a countryman ; 
but a mere accidental straggler ami scarcely entitled to ad- 
mission, though so likely to occur with other com flowers. — 
PI. 2-3 ft. high dichotomously branched hairy; 1. linear-lan- 
ceolate. 11. conspicuous handsome solitary stalked. Cal. hard 
ribbed angular, its teeth narrow slender elongate erecto-patent. 
