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XIV. CARYOPHYLLACEAS : SILEXE/E. 
[ Silene. 
shire; Dove Dale, Derbyshire. N. Queensferry ; St. Cyrus, Kincar- 
dineshire ; and near Arbroath, Scotland. If.. 5 — 7. — Stem 1 — l^ft. 
high. Root-leaves spathulate, acute. Petals rather large, white, ex- 
panding in the evening. Teeth of the capsule reflexed. 
7. S. * Itdlica DC. ( Italian C .) ; pubescent, flowers panicled 
nearly erect, branches opposite, calyx long clavate the teeth 
blunt, petals deeply bifid not crowned the segments broad, 
carpophore half as long as the capsule, radical leaves spathulate 
on long stalks, cauline ones sessile linear-lanceolate. S. patens 
W. Peete in E. B. S. t. 2748. 
Dartford, Kent; Mr. A. Peete. If.. 6, 7. — This may be at once 
known from S. nutans by the much longer and more clavate calyx, 
the absence of a crown to its petals, and their broader segments. The 
petals are white. The whole plant is more or less downy, the panicles 
slightly viscid. Teeth of the capsule reflexed. It has, we fear, escaped 
from gardens. 
8. S. cdnica L. ( striated Corn C.) ; panicle forked, petals 
bifid crowned, leaves linear downy, Calyx in fruit conical with 
numerous furrows, the teeth long subulate, E. B. t. 922. 
At New Romney and Sandown Castle, Kent. Near Bury and 
Thetford, Suffolk. Dirleton, Haddingtonshire. ©. 5 — 7. — Pe- 
tals purple, small. Calyx of the flower almost tubular and imbri- 
cated at the base, of the fruit so broad and swollen at its base as to 
, be nearly conical ; it is moreover finely striate. 
6. Stems elongated. Flowers corymbose. Calyx clavate. 
9. S. * Armeria L. ( common or Label’s C.) ; panicles forked 
corymbose with crowned flowers, petals notched and crowned 
with awl-shaped scales, calyx clavate and as well as the leaves 
glabrous, leaves ovato-lanceolate, stem viscid. E. B. t. 1398. 
Banks of the Dee, half a mile from Chester ; now extinct. Yald- 
ing, Kent. 0. 7, 8. — Extremely common in gardens. 
** Capsule 1 -celled from the very base. 
10. S. noctiflora L. ( Night-flowering C.) ; panicle forked or 
flowers terminal, petals bifid crowned, calyx with long subulate 
teeth oblong in fruit with 10 connected hairy ribs, leaves lan- 
ceolate lower ones spathulate, capsule ovate. E. B. t. 291. 
Corn-fields in a sandy or gravelly soil, in several counties of Eng- 
land. Coast of Forfarshire; Dirleton, Haddingtonshire; N. Queens- 
ferry ; Scotland. ©. 7, 8. — Stem 1 ft. or more high. Leaves much 
like the last, pubescent. Upper part of the stem many times dicho- 
tomous, each branchlet terminated by a single flower, with a solitary 
flower in the axil of the fork. Flowers rather large, sweet scented, 
pale-reddish, almost white. Peduncles viscid. 
(.S', alpestris, which has also the capsule perfectly 1 -celled, was 
said by the late Mr. Geo. Don to have been discovered by him on a 
