Silene Silene, Brot.

146. S. scabriflora Brot. View in CoL , FI. Lusit. 2: 184 (1804)

( S. hirsuta Lag. , non Poiret).

Whole plant often densely villous, sometimes pubescent or subglabrous in part, hairs always more or less ascending; buds and shoot-apices always villous; stems 5-35 cm, ascending or erect, branched. Flowers 4-9 in raceme-like monochasial cymes, all but the lower 1 or 2 usually overlapping and subsessile; inflorescence usually branched, never with alar flowers. Calyx (11—)13—25 mm, davate in fruit, usually villous; veins not anastomosing; teeth obtuse. Petal-limb 8-10 mm, pale to deep red. Capsule 5-9 mm, ovoid-oblong; carpophore 7-16 mm. Seeds 0-6-0-8 mm, reniform, brown, slightly pruinose; faces plane, ridged; back wide, plane or concave, tuberculate. • Spain, Portugal. Hs Lu.