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  FAMILY 
  79 
  

  

  forking 
  cymes. 
  Sepals 
  4-5. 
  Petals 
  4-5, 
  notched 
  or 
  2-cleft. 
  

   Stamens 
  10. 
  Styles 
  5 
  or 
  less. 
  Capsules 
  cylindrical, 
  1-celled, 
  

   many-seeded.* 
  

  

  1. 
  C. 
  arvense 
  L. 
  FIELD 
  CHICKWEED. 
  Perennial. 
  Stems 
  tufted, 
  

   erect 
  or 
  ascending, 
  4-10 
  in. 
  high. 
  Basal 
  leaves 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  flower- 
  

   less 
  branches 
  linear-oblong, 
  crowded 
  ; 
  those 
  of 
  flowering 
  stems 
  linear 
  

   or 
  lance-linear. 
  Flowers 
  | 
  f 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter, 
  in 
  cymes. 
  Petals 
  obcor- 
  

   date, 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  sepals. 
  Pods 
  hardly 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   calyx. 
  In 
  dry 
  or 
  rocky 
  soil. 
  

  

  2. 
  C. 
  vulgatum 
  L. 
  MOUSE-EAR 
  CHICKWEED. 
  Annual 
  or 
  some- 
  

   times 
  perennial. 
  Stems 
  diffuse, 
  tufted, 
  clammy-downy, 
  6-12 
  in. 
  

   high. 
  Lower 
  leaves 
  spatulate, 
  the 
  upper 
  oblong, 
  acute, 
  or 
  obtuse 
  ; 
  

   bracts 
  thin 
  and 
  dry. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  loose 
  cymes, 
  pedicels 
  becoming 
  

   much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  calyx. 
  Sepals 
  lanceolate, 
  acute, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  2-cleft 
  petals. 
  Slender 
  capsule 
  becoming 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  

   calyx 
  and 
  curved 
  upward. 
  A 
  common 
  garden 
  weed.* 
  

  

  3. 
  C. 
  brachypodum 
  Robinson. 
  Annual. 
  Stems 
  3-10 
  in. 
  high, 
  

   clammy-downy. 
  Lower 
  leaves 
  oblanceolate 
  or 
  spatulate, 
  the 
  upper 
  

   ones 
  linear 
  to 
  lanceolate. 
  Pedicels 
  shorter 
  or 
  not 
  much 
  longer 
  than 
  

   the 
  calyx. 
  Petals 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  sepals. 
  Capsule 
  straight 
  or 
  slightly 
  

   curved 
  upwards. 
  In 
  dry 
  soil. 
  

  

  ffl. 
  AGROSTEMMA 
  L. 
  

  

  Annual. 
  Stem 
  pubescent, 
  branching 
  above. 
  Leaves 
  linear- 
  

   lanceolate 
  or 
  linear, 
  pubescent, 
  sessile. 
  Flowers 
  showy, 
  on 
  

   long 
  and 
  naked 
  peduncles 
  in 
  terminal 
  corymbs. 
  Calyx 
  tubu- 
  

   lar, 
  the 
  tube 
  oblong, 
  10-ribbed; 
  lobes 
  elongated, 
  leaf 
  -like, 
  

   deciduous. 
  Petals 
  5, 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  calyx 
  lobes, 
  entire. 
  

   Stamens 
  10. 
  Styles 
  5, 
  capsules 
  1-celled.* 
  

  

  1. 
  A. 
  Githago 
  L. 
  CORN 
  COCKLE. 
  Stem 
  erect, 
  rather 
  slender, 
  1-3 
  

   ft. 
  tall, 
  gray, 
  with 
  long, 
  appressed 
  hairs. 
  Leaves 
  linear-lanceolate, 
  

   acuminate, 
  erect, 
  2-4 
  in. 
  long. 
  Petals 
  obovate, 
  notched, 
  purple. 
  

   Capsule 
  5-toothed, 
  many-seeded 
  ; 
  seeds 
  black. 
  An 
  introduced 
  weed, 
  

   common 
  in 
  grain 
  fields.* 
  

  

  IV. 
  LYCHNIS 
  L. 
  

  

  Plants 
  with 
  nearly 
  the 
  same 
  characteristics 
  as 
  Silene, 
  but 
  

   usually 
  with 
  5 
  styles. 
  

  

  1. 
  L. 
  Coronaria 
  Desr. 
  MULLEIN 
  PINK. 
  A 
  forking 
  perennial 
  plant, 
  

   2 
  ft. 
  high, 
  covered 
  with 
  white, 
  cottony 
  down. 
  Leaves 
  very 
  wavy, 
  

  

  