CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats. 

 Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. 



Silene Drummondii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 89. 1830. 

 L. Drummondii S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 1871. 



Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- 

 ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and 

 viscid, i-3 high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, 

 acute, narrowed into a margined petiole or the 

 upper sessile, i'-3i" long; flowers few, slender- 

 pedicelled, white or purplish, 6"-io" long; petals 

 scarcely longer than the tubular calyx, entire or 

 emarginate at the apex, narrower than the au- 

 ricled claw; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6"-8" long; 

 seeds tuberculate. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Minnesota, Manitoba, west 

 to California and Oregon. June-July. 



6. Lychnis apetala L. Nodding Lychnis. 

 Fig. 1822. 



Lychnis apetala L. Sp. PI. 437. 1753. 



Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3'-8' high, glandu- 

 lar-pubescent at least above. Stems i-flowered; leaves 

 linear or oblanceolate, \'-2\' long, i"-3" wide, sessile, 

 or the lower narrowed into a petiole; flower nodding, 

 6"-8" long; petals narrow, 2-cleft, included in the 

 calyx; calyx inflated, strongly purple-veined, its teeth 

 triangular-ovate, acute; petals narrow, about i" wide, 

 minutely appendaged, equalling or shorter than the 

 calyx, deeply 2-cleft; capsule erect, ovoid, 4" in 

 diameter. 



Labrador and throughout arctic America. Also in arctic 

 and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer. 



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7. Lychnis affinis Vahl. Arctic Lychnis. Fig. 1823. 



Lychnis affinis Vahl, in Fries, Mant. 3: 36. 1843. 



Tufted, arctic, perennial, erect, 2.'-^' high, glandular-pubescent 

 throughout. Basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, about \' long, ciliate ; 

 stem-leaves linear, i'-i' long, obtuse, sessile, or narrowed into 

 a short broad petiole; flower erect, 4" -6" long; calyx oblong or 

 ovate-campanulate, slightly inflated, its teeth short, acute; petals 

 somewhat exserted, the blade narrowed below, emarginate and 

 eroded, the appendages minute. 



Labrador and arctic America and Europe. Summer. 



