508 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
5. LYCHNIS [Tourn.] L. Annual or perennial herbs similar to Silene 
in habit. Flowers pedicelled and mostly erect. Calyx becoming more or less 
: i : 
inflated, 10-nerved. Petals blades entire, r 
cleft, or laciniate, generally appendage À 
va e l longat S 
natives of the temperate and Arctic zones.— 
CAMPIONS 
l. L. alba Mill. Plants 1 m. tall or I 
the stem usually branched throughout 
SCR 
pubescent: leaf- B pe to o 
oval, or lanceola 3-8 em. long: calyx be- 
ae 14-21 mm. long; Jebes Pad to 
ate, i-i as ju as the tube: petals Mire J 
or “rarely pink; blades reniform i broadly ND 
e: capsule conic-ovoid, epee ag M LUN ) —Road- 
sides Re fields, N. C. to Ont. por N. S. Nat. of Eu.—Sum 
6. AGROSTEMMA L. Annual coarse herbs. Leaf-blades very narrow. 
Flowers long- inte l0 iier] swollen: tube 10-ribbed. Petals 5: 
ades 
Ovary about 
as thick as long. LA. lightly dienes 
— Two species, natives of Eurasia 
l. A. Githago L. Ste dm. tall, 
appressed-pubesoent leaf- blades d. 4—12 
long: ealyx becoming 5-6 em. long; ; 
Er , acuminate, longer than the 
copiously pubescent tube: petals 3 
s cuneate to obovate, purple or 
agenta: capsule 18-22 mm. ips m ORN- 
COCKLE. ORN-ROSE. ORN-CAMPION.) — 
MP 
Grain-fields and fence-rows, reel ut 
out eult, N. A. Nat. of Eu.—Sum 
ORDER RANALES — Ranat ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves mostly without stipules, with entire 
or dissected blades, in aquaties often various on the same plant. Flowers 
perfect, monoecious, or dioecious. Calyx and corolla of distinct sepals 
and petals. The corolla is sometimes wanting. Androecium of usually 
more hypogynous stamens than there are sepals. Gynoecium of 1 or sev- 
eral distinct or united carpels. Ovary superior. Fruit various. 
Stamens usually numerous, the anther-sacs opening by slits. 
and plants, except in CERATOPHYLLACEAE and some RANUNCULACEAE: leaf-blades 
Flowers. pecan or monoecious, if dioecious, on neither vines nor herbs with 
Simple leaves. 
Plant with minute axillary monoecious 
flowers : anthers horned. Fam. 1. CERATOPHELLACEAE. 
Carpels 1 or more, distinct, at least at 
maturity. 
