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oblong-ovate, equally 10-ribbed : flowers cymose-paniculate : petals 

 pink or red, cleft to below the middle into 4 linear acute segments. — 

 Spec. 436, Coronaria Flos-cuculi, A. Br. Flora, 1843, 368. — Moist 

 fields, New Brunswick, New England, and New York. 



§ 2. VisCARiA, Rohl. (as genus). Calyx not inflated ; the teeth 

 not twisted : ovary septate at the base : the teeth of the capsule as 

 many as the styles. — Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2, ii. 37 ; Endl. Gen. 973. 



L. alpina, L. Smooth, biennial or perennial, erect, 2 inches to 

 a foot in height : leaves numerous, clustered at the base, linear or 

 oblong, thickish ; the cauline 2-4 pairs, erect or ascending : flowers 

 small, the densely clustered cymes forming a terminal head : bracts 

 conspicuous, membranaceous, tipped with red : calyx short-campan- 

 ulate or turbinate, membranaceous, scarcely nerved ; the teeth bright 

 red: petals pink, bifid; segments linear. — Spec. 436; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. i. 194 ; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 307 ; Wats. 1. c. 246. Lychnis 

 Suecica^ Lodd. Cab. 881. — Greenland to Labrador, and Mt. Albert, 

 Quebec, Allen, Macoim. (Europe.) 



§ 3. Agrostemma, Fenzl. (Coronaria § Pseudagrostemma, 

 A. Br.) Calyx teeth filiform, twisted : flowers few, large : petals 

 with conspicuous awl-shaped appendages : teeth of the capsule as 

 many as the styles : plant woolly. — Endl. Gen. 974. 



L. Coronaria, Desrousseaux. (Mullein Pink.) Covered with 

 dense white wool throughout: stem 1^8 feet high : leaves oval or 

 oblong : calyx ovoid ; the alternating ribs more prominent ; the teeth 

 small, much shorter than the tube : petals large, crimson. — Desr. 

 in Lam. Diet. iii. 643. Agrostemma Coronaria^ L. Spec. 436. Coro- 

 naria tomentosa, A. Br. Flora, 1843, 368. — A handsome plant, tend- 

 ing to escape from cultivation in several localities in New England 

 and the Middle States. (Europe.) 



7. AG-ROSTEMMA, L. Corn Cockle. (Name from dypd?, 

 field, and o-Te/A/ta, crown.) — A genus of two species, both natives of the 

 Mediterranean region ; one of them, growing in cultivated fields, now 

 cosmopolitan, having been widely disseminated in grain seed. — Gen. 

 n. 379; Pax, 1. c. 70. Githago, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 266; Baill. 

 Hist, des PI. ix. 108. Lychnis § Githago, DC. Prodr. i. 387 ; Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. i. 148. — Although often united with Lychnis, these 

 species through the different relative position of the carpels and petals 

 seem to deserve rank as a separate genus, especially if Sagina is to 

 be kept distinct from Arenaria upon the same ground. 



A. GiTHAGO, L. Annual or biennial, covered with a long, silky, 

 appressed or spreading pubescence: stem 1^-3 feet high, somewhat 



