64 I'INK FAMILY. 



* Calyx arith a scaly cup or set of bracts at its base : styles 2. 



1. DIAN THUS. Oalyx cylindrical, faintly many-striate. Petals without a crown. 



Seeds attached \jy the face: embryo in the 'albumen and nearly straight! 

 * Calyx naktd fit base : seeds attachedly the edge: embryo curved. 



2. LYCHNIS. Styles 5, rare! v 4. Calvx not angled, but mostly 10-nerved. 



3. SII.KXK. Styl.-s 3. Calyx not angled, mostly 10-nerved. 



4. VACCARIA. Styles 2. Calyx pyramidal, becoming 5-wing-angled. 



5. SAPONARIA. Styles 2. Calyx "cylindrical or oblong, not angled, 5-toothed. 



I'M 4-vnlved at the top. 



6. GYPSOPHILA. Styles 2. Calyx hell-Imped, 5-cleft, or thin and delicate 



below the sinuses. Pod 4-valved. Flowers small and panicled, resembling 

 those of Sand wort, &c. 



II. CHICKWEED FAMILY, &c. Petals spreading, without 

 claws, occasionally wanting. Sepals (4 or 5) separate or united 

 only at ba>e, or rarely higher up. Flowers small, compared with 

 the Pink Family, and the plants usually low and spreading or tufted. 



* Witlwut stipules, generally with petals : pod several-seeded. 



7. SAGINA. Styles and valves of the pod as many as the sepals and alternate 



with them (4 or 5). Petals entire or none. Small plants. 



8. CERASTIUM. Styles as many as the sepals and opposite them (6). Petals 



notched at the cud or 2-cleft, rarely none. Pod mostly elongated, opening at 

 the top by 10 teeth. 



9. STELLARIA. Styles fewer than the sepals (3 or sometimes 4) and opposite 



as many of them. Petals 2-deft, or sometime* none. Pod globular or ovoid, 

 splitting into twice as many valves as there are styles. 



10. ARENARIA. Styles (commonly only 3) fewer thaii the sepals and opposite as 



many of them. Petals entire, rarely none. Pod globular or oblong, splitting 

 into as many or twice as many valves as there are styles. 



* * \\'dh scanous stipules between the leaves, conspicuous and entire petals, and a 



many-seeded 3 - 5-valvedpod. 



11. SPKRGt'LARIA. Styles usually 3. Leaves opposite. 



12. SPKRGl'LA. Styles 5, as many as the sepals and alternate with them- 



Leaves in whorls. 



* * * Without petals : the fruit (utricle) 1-seeded and indehiscent. 



13. ANYCHIA. Sepals 5, nearly distinct. Stamens 2-5. Stigmas 2, sessile. 



Stipules and lluwers minute. 



14. SCLERANTHUS. Sepals (5) united below into an indurated cup, narrowed at 



the throat where it bears 5 or 10 stamens, enclosing the small utricle. 

 Styles 2. Stipules none. 



* * Without petals, but the 5 sepals white and petal-like, inside : stipules obscure 

 if iiny : fruit a 3-celled muny-setded jnni 



15. MOLLUGO. Stamens generally 3, on the receptacle. Stigmas 3. Pod 



8-valved, the partitions breaking away from the seed-bearing axis and ad- 

 hering to the middle of the valves. 



1. DIANTHUS, I'INK. (Greek name, meaning Jove's own flower.) All 



but the first species cultivated for ornament : (1. summer. 



* Flowers sessile and muni/ in a closv. cluster, iritli /<m/ and narrow-pointed brac'.s 



UUil i lit, ,;i/i/.r, ,.,-< j,t in ill,' last. 



D. Armdria, PEPTFOUD I'INK of Knnipe, has got introduced into fields 

 in a lew places ; a rather insignificant plant, somewhat liairv, narrow-leaved, 

 with very small scentless flowers ; petals rose-color with whitish dots. 



D. barbatus, SWI.KI \Vn.i. IAM or Hi-Ncn I'INK, of Europe, with thin- 



nish oblong-lanceolate green lea\es, and a verv Hat-topped cluster of various- 

 colored flowers, the petal.s sharply toothed, abounds in all country gardens; the 

 many double-flowered varictio are more choice. 2/ 



D. Carthusianbrum, < IARTHDSJ VNS' I'INK, from Eu., has linear leaves, 



Slender stems, :m d ;l dense cluster of small flowers; hraets ,,\ate or oblong, 

 abruptly awn-tipped, In-own, shorter than the calyx ; petals merely toothed, 

 short, usually dark purple or crimson : now nuhcr 'scarce in gardens. 2/ 



