504 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
long, o hyaline-margined: capsule 
r l mm. long.—Pinela n and sandhills, | 
Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and N. C. 
2. S.filiformis Nash. Plants iod em. tall: 
leaf- ies dide about 4 . long: 
sepals obov 1.5-3 mm. ica. Sod 
Peur capsule scarcely 
l mm. 
d "e scrub, Coastal Plain, 
ese to Miss.—The a start with a dense 
sette of small leaves. They grow best - 
the ibd sterile white sand. Plan 
vary from those with a single stem to "o 
with a hundred or more stems thus formed 
into dense dome-like clusters. 
Famity 14. CARYOPHYLLACEAE — Pink FaAmity 
rbs with stems usually swollen at the nodes. Leaves opposite: 
dioecious. Calyx of 4 or 5 partially united sepals. Corolla of 4 or 5 
distinet petals, the claws in the calyx-tube, the blades often appendaged 
at the base. Androecium of usually 8 or 10 distinct ds ens. Gynoecium 
a . Ova 
apical valves.—T wenty genera and 600 species, widely inne 
Armeria L. Stem 2-8 dm. tall, 
utely eL ca ele blades of the cauline 
z pu , 
He 
blades often with connate bases. Flowers perfect, polygamous, or rarely 
l 
Calyx-tube with 5 ribs, nerved or nerveless ; styles 2. Tribe I. DIANTHEAE. 
Calyx-tube with 10 or more ribs: styles 3 or more. Tribe II. LYCHNIDEAE. 
I. DIANTHEAE 
Petals unappendaged. 
Calyx terete or nearly so, subtended by bractlets. 1. DIANTHUS. 
Calyx angled, or wing-angled in fruit, not Bie late 2. VACCABIA. 
Petals appendaged at the blade-base: calyx without bractlets. 3. SAPONABIA. 
II. LYCHNIDEAE 
Styles 3, or rarely 4. 4. SILENE. 
Styles 5. 
Calyx-lobes relatively small, short: petal-blades appendaged. 5. LYCHNIS. 
Calyx-lobes foliaceous, elongate: petal-blades unappendaged. 6. AGROSTEMMA. 
1. DIANTHUS L. Perennial or rarely annual herbs. Leaf-blades usu- 
ally narrow. Flowers perfect, sessile. Calyx narrow: tube equally striate. 
Petals 5: blades narrow. Ovary elongate. 
Capsule narrow, sessile.—About 200 species, 
natives of the World, except one extend- 
a: into m America.—PINK. CARNA- 
ON.—Many species are poseen among 
ie pinks of the garden 
long. N a 
fields, and woods, various provinces, Ga. 
Ia., Mich., and Me. Nat. of Eu.—Sum 
