Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 227
SILENE petalis bifidis ; coronula fubcoadnnata,
floribus fecundis, pedunculis oppofuis trifloris,
ramis alternis. Sp. pi. 596. {Moris, hift. f. 5. t.
■20.J. 2. Pet. herb. t. ^y. f. i. Ger. em. ^6^. f. 2.
omnes floribus nimis parvis.J
Sea Campion. Anglis.
On the fea beach in ftoney places frequent, as at
Fqji-Caftk^ on the coaft of Berwickfljire, ccc. &c.
The Craig cf Jilfa, off the coaft of AirJJme,
abounds with it, &c. %. VI. VI!.
The ftalks recline upon the ground : the branches
grow alternate and divaricated : the leaves are of
an oval-lanceolate form, glaucous, and fmooth
on the upper fide : the flowers all tend one way :
the peduncles are oppofite to each other, and
fupport three flowers : the calyx has 10 reddifh
angles, a little hairy : the petals are white and
bifid : the anthers of a dark-grey color. It ap-
proaches ver) near to the cucubalus Behen, but
the flower is more fpecious, and the ftalks are
decumbent.
SILENE acaulis depreflfa, petalis emarginatis. 5v/?.
NaL 311. Sp. pi. 603. {Oed. Dan. t. 27. opt.
Diilen. Eltham. 206. /. 167./. 206. Ger. em. 593,
/.s.)
Mofs-Campion. Anglis.
Upon the highland mountains in many places, as
upon Ben-Loinond, about half a miile from the
top, in abundance with the Sibbaldia ; upon Crag-
ChmUeack^, in Breadalbane^ and upon the moun-
0^ 2. tains