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D. Armeria, L. (Deptford Pink.) Annual, 1-2 feet high, 

 covered with a fine grayish pubescence : stems branching and bearing 

 several 2-4-flowered fascicles : bracts subulate, attenuate, villous ■ 

 flowers scentless : calyx slender, tubular, 7-8 lines long, the teeth 

 very sharp: petals roseate, spotted with white; the blade elliptical, 

 crenate-dentate. — Spec. 410; Pursh, Fl. 314; Bigel. Fl. Bost. 108; 

 Torr. Fl. N. & Mid. St. 447; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 195. D. arme- 

 roides, Raf. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, 269 ; Precis des Decouv. 36. 

 Atocion armerioides, Raf. Autikon Bot. 29. D. Carolinianus, Walt. 

 Car. 140, referred here by Sprengel, Syst. ii. 375, was without 

 doubt founded upon error. Torrey & Gray, Fl. i. 676, state that 

 Walter's own specimen was Dodecatheon Meadia. — Fields and pine 

 woods, Eastern States from Maine (Portland Catalogue) to Maryland ; 

 Lansing, Michigan, L. H. Bailey ; fl. June and July. Autumnal flow- 

 ers in October noted by L. F. Ward. 



*- t- -4- Bractlets broad, scarious, concealing the calyx. 



D. prolifer, L. Annual, a foot or two in height: stems wiry: 

 leaves narrow, minutely scabrous, acute : heads terminal, 2-several- 

 flowered, enclosed in thin dry ovate obtusish mucronate imbricated 

 bractlets : flowers expanding one at a time, ephemeral : calyx tubular ; 

 the veins faint, collected into five groups : petals small, notched, pink 

 or red. — Spec. 410 ; Eng. Bot. xiv. t. 956. Tunica prolifera, Scop. 

 Fl. Cam. ed. 2, i. 299. — New Jersey, Durand; Eastern Pennsylvania, 

 Smith, Porter ; Suffolk Co., N. Y., Hollick ; fl. all summer. This spe- 

 cies, especially in its calyx, forms a transition to the next geuus. 



2. TUNICA, Scop. ( Tunica, a tunic, probably in reference to 

 the close involucre.) Slender wiry-stemmed herbs with small mostly 

 linear leaves. Flowers terminal, solitary or fascicled in small heads. 

 — Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 298; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 145; Williams, 

 Journ. of Bot. xix. 193 (1890). — Old World plants represented in 

 America by a single species recently introduced. 



T. saxifraga, Scop. Smooth : stems numerous, slender, branching, 

 curved ascending: leaves small, linear, acute, less than half a line in 

 width : the lower internodes very short: flowers small, numerous, ter- 

 minal, solitary : bractlets 2 pairs, scarious except in the middle, acute, 

 considerably shorter than the calyx : petals notched, pale purple ; the 

 blade a line in length. — Scop. 1. c. i. 300 ; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. 

 t. 246. — Roadsides near Loudon, Ontario, Burgess. (Adventive from 

 Europe.) 



3. G-YPSOPHIL.A, L. (yityos, gypsum, and cf>i\eh>, to love, 

 from a supposed preference for soil rich in gypsum.) — Old World 



