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1. C. pubescent, erect; leaves verticillate in four’s, steiiatus. 
oval -lanceolate, long, acuminate, — Willd. and 
Pursh. 
Silene stellata. Ait. 
Icon. Bot. Mag. 1107. 
Four-leaved Campion, 
A tall, weak, slender and handsome plant, with verticillated 
leaves and fringed white flowers. In shady thickets and in 
woods, among under-shrubbery ; common. Perennial. July 
August. 
213. SILEKE. Gen. pi. 772. (Caryophylle<e.) 
Calix cylindric or conic. Petals 5, unguicu- 
late^ generally crowned at the orifice. Cajp- 
sule three-celled. — JSrntt. 
1. S. clammy-pubescent; leaves cuneate, those ofPeimsyiYa* 
the stem lanceolate ; partial stems few-flovver- 
ed; petals slightly emarginate, subcrenate.— 
Mich, 
S. Virginica, Willd. ? 
S. Caroliniana, Walt. 
Pennsylvania Catchfly, Wild Pink, 
A small semi-procumbent plant, with pale rose-coloured 
flowers. Upper part of the stems, peduncle, and tube of the 
corolla very viscid, so as to catch and retain little insects, dirt, 
&c. ; hence the name catchfly. In the sandy woods and bor- 
ders of sandy fields of Jersey, every where common. Peren- 
nial. May, June. 
2. S. decumbent (?) whole plant viscid-pubescent ; viiginka. 
leaves oblong, margin roughish ; panicle dicho- 
tomous, petals bifid, the organs exserted. — Mich, 
S. Catesbsei, Walt, and Willd., perhaps of Muhl ? 
Icon. Catesby. Car. 2. t. 4. Pluk. aim, t. 203. f. 1. 
Crimson or tall Catchfly, 
A fine plant, about eighteen inches or two feet high, with 
beautiful crimson flowers. I have specimens given me by the 
late professor Barton, who shewed Mr. Collins the only loca- 
