HYPOPETALEZ. 349 
Officinal Plant. 
Viola odorata. 
ORDER XCVIIL. 
CARYOPHYLLEZ&, 
Alsinacee, Silenacee, Lindley. 
Cnaracters.—Herbs (rarely shrubs) with entire opposite 
wes, often sessile and connate, and the stems enlarged at 
e joints; calyx often monosepalous, and of 5 teeth, or of 5 
sepals; corolla of 5 deeply clawed petals; stamens 
, or 10, in the latter case, 5 being attached to the petals, 
inserted under the ovary, usually twice the number of 
petals ; ovary with from 1 to 5 cells, with as many styles 
‘stigmas ; stigmas sometimes sessile ; pericarp a 1- or 5- 
1e teeth at its upper part, rarely fleshy or baccate, with — 
central placentze bearing many-seeds. 
Exameres.—Maiden Pink (Dianthus ingae Bladder 
npion (Silene inflata.) 
Meprerat Prorertres.—These are of little interest in 
is order. The flowers of Clove Gillyflower or Clove Pink 
ia Caryophyllus) are slightly aromatic, stimulant, and 
aphoretic, but their only medicinal use is to give colour 
flayour to a Saponaria officinalis is slightly © 
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