BLADDER CAMPION 



sideSj and waste places. Regarded as a bad weed. New 

 Brunswick and Ontario, south to New Jersey, Illinois, 

 and Iowa. June-October. 



Stem. — Six inches to two feet high, srriooth, leafy, 

 tufted, branching at the base. 



Leaves. — Opposite, thick in texture, smooth, oblong, 

 pointed; upper pairs meeting about the stem; the lower 

 ones spatulate, narrowing 

 to margined petioles. 



Flowers. — In loose open 

 panicles, on slender pedi- 

 cels, slightly drooping; the 

 pale green, inflated calyx 

 seeming more of the flower 

 than the white corolla. 

 Fragrant at night. 



Calyx. — Pale green, 

 veined, much inflated. 



Corolla. — Of five, long- 

 clawed, deeply cleft pet- 

 als, giving a wheel effect, 

 white. 



Stamens. — Ten; filaments 

 long, threadlike, white; an- 

 thers purplish brown. 



Pistil. — Ovary one; styles 

 three, slender, white. 



Fruit. — Broadly ovoid 

 capsule, opening with five recurved teeth 

 rough. 



Bladder Campion. 



Silene latifdlia 



Seeds brown. 



The Bladder Campion has a beautiful flower; at 

 the same time the plant is reported as a pernicious 

 weed. It is said to have arrived in this country by 

 way of Boston and finding the surroundings congenial 

 has remained, notwithstanding the many exhorta- 



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