Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part S) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 806 877 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Silene nutans Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 417. 1753 . "Habitat in Europae borealis pratis aridis." RCN: 3245. Lectotype (Hepper in Watsonia 2: 81. 1951; Jeanmonod & Bocquet in Candollea 38: 287. 1983): Herb. Linn. No. 583.18, middle specimen ( LINN ) . Current name: Silene nutans L. ( Caryophyllaceae ). Note: The sheet designated as the type by Hepper bears three specimens, to the middle of which Jeanmonod & Bocquet restricted the type choice. The same authors (in Candollea 38: 394, f. 4. 1983) also illustrate the type.