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DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA, Silene. 
(S. otPtes. Panicle with tufted, somewhat umbellate, upright 
branches: flowers dioecious: petals linear, undivided, naked: 
leaves spatulate, roughish. Sm. E.) 
E. Bot. 85— Kniph . 12— FI. Dan. 518— Clus. i. 295. 1— Ger. Em. 593. 1— 
J. B . iii. 350. 2—Pet. 57. 11 — Ger. 396. 1— H. Ox. v. 20. 5. 
{Stem from one to two feet high, leafy, downy, very clammy about the 
middle of the upper joint, below the panicle. Leaves small, viscid, each 
tapering into a long foot-stalk; radical ones two or three inches long. 
Flowers numerous, inconspicuous. Petals sometimes wanting, quite en¬ 
tire, without scales. Sm. E.) The barren plants bear more flowers, and 
in closer panicles than the fertile. I have examined many hundred plants, 
but never met with one with stamens and pistils in the same calyx. 
Woodw.; though the barren flowers sometimes produce imperfect pistils, 
and the fertile imperfect stamens. Root-leaves lying in a circle on the 
ground. Blossom pale yellowish or greenish white. 
Spanish Catchfly. {S. Otites. FI. Brit. Cucubalus Otites. Linn. E.) 
Gravelly pastures. Gravel pits on the north side of Newmarket, and 
between Barton Mills and Thetford, Norfolk. Near SwafFham and Nar- 
borough, Norfolk. Mr. Woodward. P. July—Aug. 
S. an'glica. (Hairy and viscid: petals slightly cloven : flowers lateral, 
alternate, erect: lower capsules spreading or reflexed. Sm. E.) 
Curt. 266 — (E. Bot. 1178. E.)— Dill. Elth. 309. 398. 
{Plant varying greatly in size. Stem spreading or recumbent, swollen 
above each joint. Leaves spear-shaped one to two inches long, E.); 
flowers axillary ; fruit-stalks hairy, clammy, at first upright, then bent 
back, and at length when the seeds are quite ripe, upright again. Petals 
white, either entire or notched at the end. Curt. (Sometimes faintly 
tinged with red. Sm. E.) 
English Catchfly.* Small Corn Campion, with the smallest white 
flower. Ray. (Welsh: Glydlyst brutanaidd. E.) Sandy corn-fields. 
Near the Devil’s Ditch, Cambridgeshire. About Combe Wood, Surry; 
and near Newport in the Isle of Wight. Road side between Dundee and 
St. Andrew’s. Corn-fields in several parts of Fifeshire, Angus-shire, and 
Perthshire. Mr. Brown, (At Lakenham and Costesy, near Norwich. Sir 
J. E. Smith. Frequent in sandy corn-fields in Norfolk and Suffolk. Mr. 
Woodward. On Sunderland Ballast Hills. Winch Guide. Corn-fields 
at King’s-teignton, Devon ; and near Pengerswick castle, Cornwall. Rev. 
J. Pike Jones. In Anglesey, about Aberfraw, and Llanedwen. Welsh 
Bot. E.) A. June—July. 
S. (quinque-vui/nera. Petals very entire, roundish: flowers lateral, 
alternate, upright, as are the capsules: calyx somewhat shaggy. 
Sm. E.) 
E. Bot. 86— Kniph. 8. 
Plant less hairy and less viscid than the preceding. Limb of the petals 
white, with a blood-red blotch at the base. 
* (The different species, by their viscidity, may be supposed to detain insects, thus 
constituting one kind of Muscicapce. E.) 
