SILENE 
77 
On damp rocks and debris, usually in Alpine and sub-Alpine situations ; locally abundant in 
Carnarvonshire, the Lake District, central and northern Scotland to Zetland, and north-western Ireland ; 
ascending to 1214 m. in Perthshire and descending to 122 m. on Clare Island, co. Mayo. 
The Faeroes, Iceland, northern and Arctic Europe, mountains of central and southern Europe 
ascending to 2870 m. in Switzerland ; Asia ; Arctic and northern America (inch Greenland). 
4. tSILENE ARMERIA. Lobel’s Catchfly. Plate 74 
Muscipula lobelii Gerard Herball 481 (1597); Lychnis viscosa purpurea latifolia laevis C. Bauhin Pinax 205 
(1671); Dillenius in Ray Syn. ed. 3, 341 (1724). 
Silene armeria L. Sp. PI. 420 (1753)!; Smith FI. Brit. 471 (1800)!; Syme Eng. Bot. ii, 61 (1864); 
Rouy et Foucaud FI. France iii, 13 1 (1864). 
leones: — Smith Eng. Bot. t. 1398; FI. Dan. t. 559; Baxter Phaen. Bot. ii, t. 120; Reichenbach Icon, vi, 
t. 284, fig. 5079- 
Camb. Brit. FI. iii. Plate 74. ( a ) Plant in flower. ( b ) Petals (one enlarged), (c) Ovaries (one enlarged) 
Worcestershire — adventitious (S. H. B.). 
Exsiccata : — Billot, 937; Fries, x, 39; Reichenbach, 2287; Schultz et Winter, i, 19. 
Annual. Shoot glabrous, rather glaucous, more or less viscous. Stem 1 — 4 dm. high. Leaves — 
lower ones spathulate ; upper ones lanceolate-acute. Bracts linear. Inflorescence rather dense, 
