EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Fig. 71. 



White Campion. Lychnis alba Mill. (/>. vesperlina Sibth ) Biennial, loosely 

 branching, glandular, hairy, 30-60 cm. high; leaves ovate to ovate-oblong, acute 

 2-6 cm. long; flowers few in loose panicles, white or pinkish, opening toward night, 

 often dioecious; calyx tubular, enlarging in fruit; petals obovate, two-cleft, each 

 with a ligule at the base of the blade. 



Becoming common in the lower peninsula. Naturalized from Europe. 



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