Silene linicola, C. C. Gmelin

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 177

131. S. linicola C. C. Gmelin , FI. Bad. 4: 304 (1826).

Whole plant scabrid-puberulent; stems erect, slender, with deflexed scales or hairs, simple below, strictly branched above. Inflore­ scence a lax, subcorymbose, more or less regularly-branched dichasium; pedicels |- 3 times as long as calyx. Calyx 11-14 mm, broadly davate in fruit, with ascending scales or hairs; veins broad, green, anastomosing; teeth triangular-ovate, obtuse. Petal-limb 2-4 mm, pink. Capsule 9-11 mm, ovoid; carpophore 3-5 mm. Seeds 1 - 75-2 mm, reniform; faces deeply excavate, ridged-striate; back very wide, slightly concave. Flax-fields. France, Germany, Austria, N. Italy. Au Ga Ge It.

S. crassipes Fenzl , Pugillus 8 (1842) from Syria and Palestine, is closely related to 131 and has been reported from cultivated fields in Thrace. It has broader leaves, shorter pedicels, and a denser inflorescence; the calyx is more densely papillose, and the capsule is slightly wider.