Silene .] xiy. caryophyllaceje : silexe/e. 5D 
3. S. maritima With. (Sen Campion or C.) ; panicles few- 
flowered, petals with a shallow cleft and broad segments crowned, 
calyx inflated reticulated, steins spreading, leaves ovato-lanceo- 
late or spathulate. E. B. t. 957. 
Frequent upon the sea-shore in sandy and stony places, as well as 
by alpine rills. If.. 6 — 8 This, although it has smaller stems and 
leaves than the last, has larger flowers ; yet we will not assert we 
have done right in again raising it to the rank of a species. In this 
and the preceding, the styles are variable in number. 
3. Stems elongated. Flowers in racemes, and whorled. 
4. S. Otites Sm. (Spanish C.); stems erect nearly simple 
with few leaves, flowers in whorls subdioecious, petals linear en- 
tire not crowned, leaves spathulate. Cucubalus E. B. t. 85. 
Sandy fields, chiefly in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. 2/.. 
6 — 8. — Remarkable for its small unassuming, dioecious flowers, with 
their linear entire yellowish petals. 
4. Stems elongated branched. Flowers in leafy racemes, alternate. 
5. S. A'nglica L. (English C.) ; hairy and viscid, petals 
(small) crowned slightly bifid or obovate entire, calyces with 
setaceous teeth ovate in fruit. — a. flowers white or tinged with 
red, petals usually bifid. E. B. t. 1178. — (3. flowers white 
with a red spot on each obovate usually entire petal. S. quin- 
quevulnera L. : E. B. t. 86. 
Sandy and gravelly fields. — a. in Surrey, Cambridgeshire, Hert- 
fordshire, Devonshire, Norfolk, Lancashire, North Wales, Essex, 
Cornwall, and Isle of Wight. In most of the counties on the east 
coast of Scotland, and in Ayrshire, but certainly introduced. — 13. near 
Wrotham, Kent, and Duppa’s Hill, by Croydon, Surrey. ©. 6 — 11. 
— More or less viscid. Leaves lanceolate, the lower ones spathulate. 
Flowers solitary from the axils of the upper leaves. Calyx at first 
cylindrical, scarcely shorter than the petals, erect ; at length the lower 
ones, when in fruit, have their pedicels often singularly reflected. 
Our var. 0. is a common annual in gardens ; it derives its Latin 
, specific name from the 5 deep red spots sometimes observable on its 
I . petals , resembling marks of blood, but which are often more or less 
faint. 
5. Stems panicled, leafy. Calyx not bladdery. 
6. S. nutans L. (Nottingham C .) ; pubescent, flowers panicled 
; secund cernuous, branches opposite, calyx cylindrical ventricoso 
the teeth acute, petals deeply cloven crowned their segments 
linear, carpophore as long as the capsule, leaves (of the stem) 
lanceolate. E. B. t. 465. S. paradoxa Sm. FI. Br. (not Z.) 
Limestone rocks, and chalky cliffs in England. Dover Cliffs ; 
about Nottingham; Ormeshead, Caernarvonshire; Isle of Wight, 
and Brown Downs, near Gosport, Hampshire ; Knaresborough, York- 
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