Silene Silene, Boiss. Silene Silene, Patrin

66. S. boryi Boiss. View in CoL , Elenchus 19 (1838)

(inch S. tejedensis Boiss. ).

Like 65 but coronal scales conspicuous, and carpophore up to 18 mm, much longer than ripe capsule. S. Spain; N. Portugal. Hs Lu.

Typically the basal leaves are linear-lanceolate and acuminate, and the habit is laxly mat-forming. The var. tejedensis (Boiss.) Willk. with very long stolons and ovate sub-acute basal leaves, occurs in S. Spain (Sierra Tejeda), but is connected by intermediates to the typical variety.

Sect. Sujfruticosae (Rohrb.) Schischkin (inch Sect. Macranthae Rohrb. ). Perennial with more or less woody stock and ovate, lanceolate or linear leaves. Inflorescence few-flowered or flowers solitary and terminal; flowers usually large. Carpophore usually well-developed.

67. S. repens Patrin View in CoL in Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 500 (1805).

Perennial with long creeping stolons and suberect stems up to 60 cm, more or less scabrid-pubescent throughout. Leaves up to 5 cm, linear, acute; basal withering early. Inflorescence narrow, with short, few-flowered, opposite branches. Calyx 10-12 mm, densely scabrid-pubescent, somewhat inflated in fruit. Petals white; claw glabrous, auriculate; coronal scales very small or absent. Capsule equalling carpophore. C., S. & E. Russia. Rs (C, E).

68. S. succulenta Forskâl View in CoL , Fl. Aegypt. lxvi & 89 (1775)

(inch S. Corsica DC. ).

Fleshy perennial with woody stock and numerous procumbent or ascending stems, clothed throughout with dense viscid glandular pubescence (and therefore always with adhering sand-grains). Leaves obovate or oblanceolate. Flowers large, solitary or paired (rarely 3 or more), in axils of leafy bracts. Calyx 15-20 mm, narrowly davate, with conspicuous greenish or reddish veins. Petal-limb bifid, white; claw long-exserted; coronal scales conspicuously toothed. Capsule c. 10 mm, broadly oblong, equalling the deflexed-hairy carpophore. Maritime sands. Corse, Sardegna, Kriti. Co Cr Sa.

Plants from Corse and Sardegna have smaller leaves and rather shorter, more obtuse calyx-teeth than the typical plant, which occurs in Kriti; they have been distinguished as subsp. Corsica (DC.) Nyman , Consp. 92 (1878).