947 
SILENE pensylvanica. 
American Wild-pink. 
DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
_ Nat. ord. CaryoruynLex. Jussieu gen. 299. Div. V. Calyx tubu- 
losus. Stamina alterna hypogyna, alterna sepids epipetala. Styli 2. aut 3 
aut 5. 
SILENE. Cal. tubuloso-ventricosus 5-dentatus. Pet. 5 unguiculata, 
ad faucem 2-dentata, supra sepé bifida. Caps. 3-loc. apice. 5-fariam 
dehiscens. Pedunculi uni- aut. multiflori, axillares aut terminales aut ex 
dichotomid caulis. Species quedam basi suffrutescentes, una muscoides caspi- 
tosa. Juss. loc. cit. 02. 
Div. Petala ad faucem coronata. Floribus ex dichotomia caulis. — 
Ss. pensylvanica, viscido-pubescens; foliis cuneatis, caulinis lanceolatis, 
cauliculis in summitate paucifloris, petalis obtusissimis levitér emargi- 
natis subcrenatis. Michaux bor-amer. 1. 272. 
Silene pensylvanica. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 316; (eaclusa S. virginica 
Willd.) Persoon syn. 1.498. Bigelow flor. boston. 110. 
Silene incarnata. Loddiges’s botan. cabin. t. 41. 
Silene caroliniana. Walt. car. 244; (tantummodd quoad varietatem cum 
petalis ulringue carneis ; suspicamur enim speciem ad minimum in duas se- 
arandam fore). } 
Humilis, subquadriuncialis. Folia inferiora lanceolato-cuncata biuncialia 
”. magis, angusta, elongata, inferné versis canaliculata et peliolatim atte- 
nuata, firmula, villis asperiusculis marginata: superiora breviora. lineari- 
lanceolata, opposita atque basi subvaginoso-connata, hirsutits villosa. Caulis 
(sepiis plures) villosus, asperiusculus strictus, superné trichotomo-cymosus, 
pluriflorus, pedunculo intermedio trichotomiarum unifloro. Flores superiores 
subfasciculato-approximati, pedunculis viscoso-villosis connatim  bibracteatis. 
Cal. subuncialis cylindricus, pro genere angustus, rubro-viridans, viscido-pu- 
bescens, sulcatus sulcis 10 herbacets prominentibus cum totidem depressis mem- 
branosis roseis diaphanis alternis. Cor. rosea; pet. unguibus equantibus calycem 
et pro longitudine stipitis germinis cum eo in cylindrum conferruminatis: 
lamina oblongo-cuneata, breviore calyce, -crenato-truncata, lamellulis 2 denti- 
Jormibus concoloribus brevibus ad basin. Stam. alterna corolle unguibus in- 
“serta, alterna summo stipiti germinis, exsuperantia calycem. Styli 3, exserti, 
recurvati, apice subrosei. Germ. oblongum, 3-plo brevius stipite. 
The SILene virginica of Linnzeus, and the SisENE Cates- 
bai of Walter, have been adopted by Willdenow as distinct 
species, and placed in different sections of the genus, though 
he has quoted Pluknet’s plant as a synonym to both: and in 
fact they are one and the same species, in as far as Pluknet’s 
and Catesby’s plant is included as a variety in caroliniana. 
Mr. Pursh cites Willdenow’s virginica to Michaux’s pensyl- 
vanica, the former being that of Linnzeus, the latter the 
— 
