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oblong, the 2 outer ones linear and spreading, bearing long acute appendages which are often 
toothed and not gibbous. Gynophore stout, short. Ovary green, much broader than the gynophore. 
Stigmas rather longer than the ovary, whitish. Capsule subglobose, opening by 5 recurved teeth. 
Seeds 00 , small, reniform, tuberculate, with convex sides and back, on long funicles. 
Plants with white flowers (subvar. albiflora Peterman FI. Lips. 332 (1838)) occur, and also plants with flesh-coloured 
flowers. The latter may be hybrids, but there is no experimental knowledge on the subject : all three colour-forms sometimes 
grow in company. 
Double flowers are occasionally found, and are in cultivation : the doubling is due to petalody of the stamens. 
The numbers of the floral parts vary to some extent as in many members of the Dianthaceae. 
(/ 3 ) subvar. integripetala Compton in Moss Camb. Brit. FI. iii, p. 67. 
Petals not laciniate, only slightly notched at the apex. 
Devonshire (W. Wise, in Herb. Mus. Brit.; cf. Journ. Bot. xxxv, 284 (1897)). 
(7) forma congesta Compton in Moss Camb. Brit. Ft. iii, p. 67 ; L. flos-cuculi var. congesta Lecoq et 
Lamotte Cat. PI. Centr. France 98 (1847). 
Flowers on very short peduncles and pedicels, crowded together in a terminal cymose corymb 
or head. 
A sub-Alpine form, occurring in peaty mountain bogs (A. Croall, in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
(8) forma maritima Compton in Moss Camb. Brit. FI. iii, p. 67. 
Leaves longer, especially the stem-leaves, almost glabrous. Stem thicker. Inflorescence small 
and dense as in forma congesta. Flowers smaller. 
In salt-marshes (Hodgson, in Herb. Mus. Brit.); Walney Island, Lancashire. 
(e) forma latifolia Bolle Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. vii, 19 (1865). 
Leaves and inflorescence unusually large. Pedicels long. 
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A luxuriant shade-grown form (Forbes Young, in Herb. Mus. Brit.), Thames Ditton, Surrey. 
(£) forma debilis Compton in Moss Camb. Brit. Ft. iii, p. 67 ; L. cyrilli [Richter ex] Reichenbach Icon, vi 
55, t. 306, fig. 5129b (1844); L. flos-cucidi subsp. cyrilli Rouy et Foucaud FI. Fra 7 ice iii, 91 (1896). 
leones : — Reichenbach loc. cit., as L. cyrilli. 
Weaker and more slender, and with very little anthocyanin in the stem, leaves, and calyx. 
Peduncles and pedicels long. Flowers rather smaller. 
Occurs here and there. 
Austria, Corsica, Sicily, Servia, Bulgaria — (Rouy and Foucaud loc. cit.). 
Common on stream-banks, in damp meadows, marshes, funcus- swamps, alder-willow copses, osier- 
beds, fens, and rarely in salt-marshes; throughout the British Islands; ascends to 600m. in Scotland, 
but for the most part a lowland or submontane species ; tolerant as to the chemical nature of 
soils but prefers a strong or moderate mineral-content as well as a strong illumination, and demands 
at least a fairly high water-content ; absent or very rare in acidic peat. 
The Faeroes, Iceland, Scandinavia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, central 
Europe (ascending to 2100 m. in Switzerland), Russia, southern Europe; central and northern 
Asia; North America (not indigenous). 
Genus 13. Viscaria 
By R. H. COMPTON, M.A. 
Viscaria [Ruppius FI. fen. ed. Haller 126 (1745);] Roehling Deutschl. FI. ed. 2, ii, 37 (1812) emend.; 
Fenzl in Endlicher Gen. PL 973 (1841) excl. sect. Eudianthe\ Fries in Bot. Notiser 170 (1842); A. Braun in 
Flora xxvi, 3 76 (1843); Grenier et Godron FI. France i, 221 (1848); Rohrbach in Linnaea xxxv i, 264 (1869); 
Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 99 (1896); Lychnis L. loc. cit. partim ; Liponenrum Schott Anal. Bot. 
55 (1854). 
Flowers monoclinous. Calyx herbaceous, tubular, with 5 equal teeth. Petals more or less 
notched or emarginate, with 2 coronal scales, claw often winged. Stamens usually 10. Gynophore 
half as long as the capsule. Ovary with usually 5 carpels, opposite the calyx-teeth, partially septate 
from the base, with 5 stigmas. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, teeth as many as the stigmas. 
Seeds 00 . 
5 species ; northern and central Europe and Asia. 
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