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Man. ed. 6, 85. — Roadsides and cultivated grounds, June to Septem- 

 ber. (Nat. from Eur.) 

 = = Smooth or nearly so, a part of each of the upper internodes glutinous. 



S. antirrhina, L. (Sleepy or Snapdragon Catchfly.) Stem 

 6 inches to 3 feet in height : leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, com- 

 monly acute : flowers rather numerous, small, ephemeral, borne in a 

 compound cyme ; pedicels long, filiform : calyx smooth, green, ovoid 

 in fruit, about 4 lines long, contracted above ; the teeth short : ovary 

 scarcely stiped : petals small, pink or white, more or less emarginate 

 or bifid. — Spec. 419 ; Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 376; Torr. & Gray, PI. 

 i. 191 ; Rohrb. 1. c. 173 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. 2, t. 66. Saponaria 

 dioica, Cham. & Schlecht. Linnoea, i. 38. — Waste places, common, 

 widely distributed throughout the United States and Canada (also S. 

 Am.) ; very variable in size and foliage. 



Var. linaria, Wood. " Very slender : leaves all linear except the 

 lowest which are linear-spat ulate ; calyx globular. Ga. and Fla." — 

 Wood, Class-Book, ed. of 1861, 256, & Bot. & Fl. 53 ; Wats. Bibl. 

 Index, 107. 



- Var. divaricata. Very slender : leaves linear or lance-linear, not 

 exceeding an inch in length: branches filiform divaricate : calyx ovoid, 

 2-2 L lines long; petals wanting. — Rockford, 111., M. S. Bebb, G. D. 

 Sioezey. 



S. Armeria, L. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic t flowers borne at 

 the ends of the branches in small close cymes : pedicels short : calyx 

 slender, clavale, 6-8 lines long : ovary long-stiped : petals pink, sub- 

 entire or minutely toothed ; appendages lanceolate acute. — Spec. 420 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 194; Reichb. 1. c. vi. t. 284. — Occasionally 

 found on roadsides and in fields, having escaped from gardens. 



* * Perennial, subacaulescent, very low and densely matted. 



S. acaulis, L. (Moss Campion.) Closely cespitose, an inch or 

 two in height : leaves linear, crowded on the branching rootstocks : flow- 

 ers small, 2-3 lines in diameter, subsessile or raised on naked curved 

 peduncles 2-6 lines long • calyx narrowly campanulate, 2-3 lines long, 

 glabrous; the teeth short, rounded: petals purplish, rarely white, en- 

 tire, retuse or bifid, minutely appendaged. — Spec. ed. 2, 603 ; Reichb. 

 Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 270. Cucubalus acaulis, L. Spec. 415. Lychnis 

 acaulis, Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2, i. 306. — An arctic and high alpine 

 species, widely distributed and somewhat variable. Arctic America 

 to the White Mts. ; extending along the Rocky Mts. from Alaska to 

 Arizona, also found in the Cascade Mts. (Eur. and Asia.) A some- 



