Silene multicaulis, Guss.

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 : 171

80. S. multicaulis Guss. , Pl. Rar. 172 (1826).

Usually less densely caespitose than 78; stems up to 40 cm, (l-)3- to 4(—8)- flowered. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear. Calyx 14-18 mm, narrowly davate, pale greenish or vinous, rarely with anastomosing veins, sometimes slightly scabrid above; teeth alternately obtuse and acute. Petals purplish or greenish; claw long-exserted. Capsule 8-9 mm, equalling or up to 2 mm longer than calyx; carpophore 6-9 mm, pubescent, especially below. • Mountains o f Balkan peninsula, Italy and Corse. Al Co G r It Ju. S. genistifolia Halâcsy , österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 42: 369 (1892), with lanceolate leaves, long pedicels, flowers inclined at anthesis, and calyx 16-22 mm, occurs in N. Greece (Athos). S. stenocalycina Rech. fil. , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 104: 175 (1957), with narrow glabrous calyx c. 18 mm, and slender carpophore c. 10 mm, nearly twice as long as subglobose capsule, is described from E. Greece ( N. Evvoia ). Both seem related to 80, but the group needs further investigation.