The authors conducted a study on the genus Silene and genus Melandrium of Xinjiang

from characters of form of organs

form of pollen and numerical taxonomy. There were 42 species and 1 variety that were sdudied. The article showed: It is not proper that the genus Silene and Melandrium were combined

only set up 44 sections of equal rank

or that were looked on the genus Silene and Melandrium as two genera in accordance with amount of septum of ovary. Finaly

the article pointed that they are looked on the genus Silene and Melandrium as two subgenera

and they are put the genus Silene in a broad sense. It is a imagine that they are set up 5 sections in the subgenus Silene and 3 sections in the subgenus Melandrium about 42 species and 1 variety of Xinjiang.