1 84 The Ohio Naturalist. [Vol. XIII, No. 8, 



Vaccaria Medic. 



Annual herbs, glabrous, glaucous. Flowers in corymbed 

 cymes; petals pale red and not crowned, longer than the calyx; 

 calyx sharply .5-angled and inflated in fruit; sepals -5; stamens 10; 

 styles 2. 



1. Vaccaria vaccaria (L.) Britt Cow-herb. Annual, 20 to 

 24 inches high; calyx 5-ang1ed, enlarged and wing-angled in fruit; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate. Lake, Ashtabula. 



Dianthus. L. 



Stiff herbs. Leaves narrow; flowers terminal, solitary or 



cymose-paniculate, generally purple; calyx tubular, with several 



bracts at its base; sepals 5; petals 5, long clawed, dentate or 



crenate; stamens 10; styles 2; capsule cylindric or oblong, stalked, 



dehiscent by four or five short teeth at the summit. 



L Leaves large, ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate; 3 to 5 times as 

 long as broad; flowers clustered; perennial. D. barbatus. 



1. Leaves narrowlv lanceolate, linear, subulate; 8 to 12 times as long as 



broad. 2. 



2. Calyx densely pubescent; leaves 2 to 2} 9 inches long; flowers clustered; 



annual. D. anneria. 



2. Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent. 3. 



3. Plants much branched; flowers solitary; perennial. D. delloides. 



3. Plants simple or with few erect branches; flowers in terminal heads, 

 rarely solitary; annual. D. prolifera. 



1. Dianthus prolifera L. Proliferous Pink. Annual, gla- 

 brous, G to 12 inches high. Leaves few, linear and acute; flowers 

 small, pink, arranged in terminal, oblong or obovoid heads; calyx 

 concealed by bracts. Cuyahoga Count}-. 



2. Dianthus armeria L. Deptford Pink. Anntial, minutely 

 pubescent, 12 to 20 inches high, with few erect branches. Leaves 

 linear, about \ inch wide, 1>2 to 2}i inches long; flowers ar- 

 ranged in terminal clusters with lanceolate, subttlatc bracts, 

 u.sually longer than the calyx; se]:)als very acute. Licking, Jef- 

 ferson, Gallia. 



o. Dianthus deltoides L. Maiden Pink. Perennial, 4^ to 8 

 inches high. Leaves short, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or 

 .slightly pubescent; flowers pink or white, solitary, with toothed 

 petals; bracts ovate and half as long as the tube. Lake County. 



4. Dianthus barbatus L. Sweet William. Tufted, glabrous 

 and erect, Ki to IS inches high. Leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate; '2}i to ;j inches long, ^^ inch wide; bracts linear- 

 filiform, about the same length as the sharp, pointed sepals; 

 flowers pink or white or variegated, in large terminal clusters. 

 Portage County. 



