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Lychnis .'] xiv. caryophyllace^e : silexe^e. 
rock on a mountain to the east of Clova in Angusshire ; and specimens 
from him are preserved in Mr. Borrer’s and Dr. Walker Arnott’s 
herbaria ; but they appear certainly to have been obtained from a 
garden. If discovered, it may be recognised by the calyx-teeth ovate 
blunt, limb of the petals broad and 4-cleft, and the seeds ciliated.) 
4. Lychnis Linn. Campion Lyohnis. 
Cal. monophyllous, tubular, 5-toothed. Pet. 5, clawed, 
crowned at the mouth, mostly divided at the border. Starn. 
10, alternate ones opposite the petals and adhering to their claws. 
Styles 5, or rarely 4. Capsule opening by 4-5 or 8-10 teeth. — 
Named from Aeyj'Of, a lamp; the thick cottony substance on the 
leaves of some species, or some similar plant, having been em- 
ployed as wicks to lamps. 
* Ovary 1 -celled. Capsule 5 -toothed. Eulychnis. 
1. L. Flos-Cuculi L. ( Meadow L. or Ragged Robin) ; flowers 
loosely panicled, petals 4-cleft. E. B. t. 573. 
Moist meadows and pastures, frequent. X- 5,6. — Stem 1— 2 ft. 
high, hairy below, reddish-green, clammy above. Leaves lanceolate. 
Calyx and jlower-stalks reddish-purple. Petals rose-coloured. In 
all this section the appendage at the base of the limb of the petals is 
membranous and soft. 
** Ovary 5-celled at the base. Capsule 5-toothed. Viscaria. 
2. L. Viscaria L. ( red German CatchjhJ) ; petals slightly 
notched at the extremity, stem clammy at the joints. E. B. 
t. 788. 
Dry alpine rocks ; on Craig Breiddin, Montgomeryshire ; about 
Edinburgh and Newburgh; near Airly Castle ; Glen Farg, and Den* 
of Balthayock, Perthshire. X. 6 — 8. — Stems 1 ft. high, glabrous. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate. Flowers in a compact panicle, large, 
rose-coloured. Capsule distinctly stalked. 
3. L. * alpirta L. (red alpine Catclijly ) ; glabrous, petals bifid, 
flowers corymbose-capitate. E. B. t. 2254. 
On the summit of Little Kilrannoch, between Glen Prosen and 
Glen Callader, at an elevation of about 23CO ft. ; Forfarshire. 
Ilobcartin Fell, Vale of Lorton, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. 
X. 6,7 Stem 5 — 6 inches high, by no means viscid. Leaves 
lanceolate. Flowers rather small, rose-coloured. 
*** Ovary I -celled. Capsule 10 -toothed. Melandrium. 
4. L. vesperlwa Sibtli (white C.) ; flowers subdicecious, calyx 
of the pistilliferous flowers with linear-lanceolate elongated 
teeth, capsule conical the teeth erect. L. dioica 15. L.: E. B. 
t. 1580. 
Under hedges and in grass-fields, common. $ or If. (?) 6 — 9. 
