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DECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. Silene. 
(S. infla'ta. Flowers more or less panicled : calyx inflated, smooth, 
veined: leaves egg-spear-shaped, acuminate. 
Var. 1. major. Bladder Campion or Catchfly. Spatling Poppy. 
White Bottle. Welsh: Glydlys Codrwth ; Llys y poer. S. inflata. 
Sm. Var. a. Hook. Grev. Cucuhalus Belien. Linn. In corn-fields, pastures, 
and by way-sides, common. Stems erect, many-flowered ; petals 
scarcely crowned. 
FI. Dan. 914— E.Bot. 164— Kniph. 12 •— J.B. iii. 356— Pet. 57. 2 — Blackw. 
268— Clus. i. 293. 2—Dod. 112—Lob. Obs. 184. 1—Ger. Em. 678. 2— 
Park. 263— Ger. 550. 2— Trag. 130— Lome. ii. 33— H. Ox. v. 20. 1. 
Var. 2. minor. Sea Campion or Catchfly. Welsh : Glydlys arfor; Gwlydd 
y geift. Cucuhalus Behen (3. Linn. Silene amoena. Huds. and Lightf. 
S. maritima. With. Sm. S. inflata. Var. (3. Hook. Grev. Stems procum¬ 
bent at the base, few-flowered; petals crowned. Sandy places on the 
sea coast, frequent. 
E. Bot. 957—FI. Dan. 857— Loh. Adv. 143, and Ic. 337— Tab. Ic. 676. xiii. 
— Ger. Em. 469. 2— Bauh. Hist. iii. 357. 1— Ger. 382. 2— Park. 639. 3 
and 4— Pet. 57. 1—H. Ox. 20. 2. 
Plant more or less glaucous. Stem naked upwards, branched, from a few 
inches to one or two feet in height. Leaves ovate, egg-spear-shaped, 
or nearly strap-shaped, from a hair, to one and a half inch long, from 
one-eighth to three-quarters of an inch broad, generally in pairs, sessile, 
single-ribbed, always more or less pointed or even mucronate, bordered 
either with a smooth semi-transparent line, or irregularly, with glandular 
prickles, often so minute as to be scarcely perceptible to the naked eye. 
Bracteas in pairs, below each partial stalk. Calyx, and sometimes the 
whole plant, but not invariably purplish. Panicle terminal, bifurcate, or 
more; the number of flowers , often three on each fork with one central, or 
only single-flowered, while luxuriant specimens bear from twenty to 
thirty. Flowers white, stalked; petals cloven. Cal. reticulated with 
coloured veins, elliptical. Styles three, four, or five. 
S. inflata has been observed near Cromer, Norfolk, by Mr. Dawson Turner; 
in the parish of Llangoed, Anglesey, by the Rev. Hugh Davies; on the 
banks of Clyde at Old Kilpatrick, and at the ferry, Clyde iron-works, by 
Mr. Hopkirk; with the leaves and stem densely clothed with short hairs. 
In garden specimens of Var. 2, the limb of the petal becomes considerably 
dilated, and when this var. is found on mountainous situations it is said 
to be S. uniflora of De Candolle. 
The above general description is derived from the examination of a great 
number of specimens obtained from different parts of England, and espe¬ 
cially at this time, (July 1827), in a recent state, both from the upland 
naturalist, to Wollaton, in 1670 , for the purpose of investigating the natural history of 
that neighbourhood. It was first published in his Catalogue of English Plants, which came 
out the same year, and the walls and rocks about Nottingham Castle have ever since been 
handed down as a station in all works on British Botany. Deering, in his Catalogue of 
Plants, pointed out a second place of growth, the rocks at Sneinton Hermitage, about a 
mile to the East of Nottingham Castle. It still grows in both the situations above men¬ 
tioned, as well as about the rocks and excavations in Nottingham Paik, on the west side of 
the Castle. The time when the flowers first open is the second week of May, exactly the 
same as in Ray’s days : it continues flowering for the space of six weeks. The flowers of 
this plant expand fully only in the evening, at which time the petals are defiexed like those 
of Cyclamen. Ordoyno. 
