506 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
Petal-claws about equalling the calyx: calyx 
densely pubescent NE iom ndless hairs: style 
about as long as the 4. S. Wherryi. 
Blades of the petals fringed. Mes "Olchotonousis cleft. 
p with short rigid hairs: calyx about 1 cm. 
SEEMS with villous pubescence: calyx about 2.5 
et 
. S. ovata. 
6. S. Baldwinii. 
Corolla AER on crimson. 
Pe Me 2-lobed. 
t 
S finely pubescent: upper stem-leaves with 
blades several times longer than broad. 7. S. virginica. 
Stems villous: upper stem-leaves with blades 
usually less than twice as long as broad. 8. S. rotundifolia. 
etals entire T BIB SO, sometimes merely erose. 9. S. regia. 
Plants annual or bienn 
Inflorescence simple. 10. S. anglica. 
Inflorescence branched. 
‘lowers in dichotomous racemes, 11. S. dichotoma. 
lowers in dichotomous cyme 
liage pubescent: stem viscid. 12. S. noctifiora. 
Foliage glabrous, normally glutinous about the 
nodes of the stem 13. S. antirrhina. 
II. LATIF 
Perennial herb usually branched at the base, ae opens more 
or less nodding. 14. S. latifolia. 
1. S. stellata (L.) Ait. f. Stem 3-12 dm. tall, usually minutely pubescent: 
leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate, 4-12 cm. long: calyx becoming 10-16 mm. long; 
lobes about 4 as long as the tube: petals 
aie 1.5-2 em. long; : 
eapsule-body subglobose to ovoid- rbi 
6-8 mm. long, reeled ae dio te— (Bran 
CAMPION. WIDOW’S-FRILL. or ae 
woods, various pog Ga. t to Tex. Minn., 
and Mass. —Sum 
2. S. alba Muhl. Ste em 3-8 dm. tall, some- 
times minutely pubescent: leaf-blades lanceo- 
late to ee. or slightly broadest 
e the middle, 4-1 . long yx 
Vp 14—16 mm. ed zs about + i 
long as the tube: petals white, 2-2.5 c 
long; blades pra ard body DDR. p 
ovoid, 9-11 mm. long.—(SNOWY-CAMPION. 
—River shores and es jou provinees, N of Coastal Plain, Tenn. to 
Nebr., Minn., and Md. —Spr 
3. S. caroliniana Walt. Stem 1-2.5 dm. long, closely pubescent: leaf-blades 
T to linear- T on the Su par a the stem, lanceolate above, 
3-1 . long: calyx e , becoming 2-2. B c . long; lobes broadly ovate: 
pet "hs pink Or elio te "blades about 1.5 em. long: age: raised above the 
calyx- Wie on the long claws: capsule 9-11 mm. long. [s. pennsylvanica 
Muhl.]—(WILD-PINK. — ROCE- ut mt aded T and rocky woods, 
various provinces, Ga. to Ky. and M 
4. S. Wherryi Small. Plant similar to S. olimiana in pdt p foliage: 
calyx densely pubescent with whitish gee i petals white to rose-pink, 
the blades less notehed than in those of the next SM um ous little, if at 
all raised above the e alyx-lobes.—Rocky slopes and stream banks, Interior Low 
Plateaus and ud. provinces, Ala. to Mo. and S Ohio.—Spr. 
S. a Pur Ste 2 dm. tall, minutely pubescent: leaf-blades ovate 
to ate ee or alliptic: lanceolate, 4-15 em. long: calyx becoming 8—10 
