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Bractea breui, rigida, lanceolata, concaua, ad*- 
preffa, connata. 
Pedicelli pedunculo lorgiores, pubefcentes: flori¬ 
feri erectopatentes: fructiferi erecti, ftricti: laterales duo 
in medio nodo et bracteolis duabis oppofitis praediti, lon¬ 
giores intermedio prius florem producente, nudo. 
Cal yx oblongus, fere uncirlis, albidus, coftis de¬ 
cem eleuatis pubefeentibus, alterne minoribus, viridibus 
notatus, hinc fubdecagonus, quinqiedentatus: dentibus li¬ 
nearibus, margine aibo-membranaieis, quafi cohaerenti¬ 
bus, vix lineam longis: florifer fere horizontalis, cylindri¬ 
cus, vix ad apicem paululum incraflatus; fructifer erectus 
cauli adpreflus, dauatus. 
Corolla pentapetalo, vnciam fere in diametro ha¬ 
bens. Petala alba, fubtus viridefeentia, vel demum pur- 
purafeentia, profunde bifida: laciniis anguflis, fuperne pau¬ 
lulum latioribus, obtufillimis et fere rotundatis, integerri¬ 
mis: vngnes calyce paululum longiores, virideftentes. 
S ta m i n a decem generis. 
Piftillum Germen oblongum, furfum paululum at¬ 
tenuatum, laete viride, glabrum, thalamo paulo longiore 
et paulo anguftiore intra calycem infidens. Stijli tres. 
C a p f u 1 a oualis, mucrone craffiufculo fere lineari ter¬ 
minata, calycem paululum fupereminens, intra calycem 
infidens pedicello craffb, cylindrico ejusdem longitudinis. 
Semina exigua, reniformia, nigra. 
Obferv. I. Sub nomine Cucubali multiflori Ehrh. feminaac- 
cepi. Plantae ex his enatae, altero fationis an¬ 
no , fero autumno floruerunt. At Cucubalus muU 
tiflores Ehrh. Beitr. Band 7. pag. 141. n. 4. fo¬ 
lia fcabra et calycem deorfum pubefeenterr. ha¬ 
bere dicitur, cum in noftra planta folia pubefeen- 
tia, mollia, abfque vlla fcabride et calyx totus 
pubelcens obleruentur. 
Obfe W. II. Differt a Silene Chlorantha Flor. Germ. Tom. 2. 
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