40 CARYOPHYLLE/E. [Dianthus. 



Styles 3; calyx with (black) glandular serratures ; stem erect; 

 leaves cordate, embracing the stem, glabrous. Br. Fl. I. p. 

 337. E. Fl. v. iii. p. 329. E. Bot. t. 1227. 



Dry woods and heaths, frequent. Fl. July. % . — One foot to two 

 feet high, slender, erect, rigid, branched. Flowers beautiful, in loose 

 panicles, yellow, tipped, before expansion, with red. Anthers red. 



9. H. elodes, Linn. Marsh St. JohrC s-wort. Styles 3; calyx 

 with (reddish) glandular serratures, glabrous; leaves roundish, 

 shaggy ; stem rounded, creeping; panicle of few flowers. Br. 

 ELL p. 337. E. FL v. iii.p. 330. E. Bot. t. 109. 



Spongy bogs, not unfrequent. Fl. July, Aug. %. — A span long. 

 Flowers few, panicled, terminal, pale yellow. 



Okd. 13. CARYOPHYLLEiE. Juss. Chickweed Family. 



Sepals 4 — 5, continuous with the peduncle, distinct or co- 

 hering into a tube, persistent. Petals 4 — 5, hypogynous, in 

 some (especially Stellaria uliginosaj almost perigynous, at other 

 times, along with the stamens, inserted upon the receptacle, 

 sometimes wanting. Stamens as many as, or twice the number 

 of the petals, distinct or slightly united at the base : anthers 

 2-celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary inserted on a more or 

 less evident torus. Styles 2 — 5. Capsule 1 — 5-celled, 2 — 5- 

 valved, valves often dentiform. Placentae central, in the 2 — 5- 

 celled capsules, adhering to the edge of the dissepiments. Seeds 

 indefinite. Albumen mealy, around which the embryo is gene- 

 rally more or less curved. Radicle directed to the hilum. — 

 Herbaceous plants, of the temperate and colder regions, rarely suf- 

 frutescent. Leaves opposite, often connate, entire, in Arenaria rubra 

 and its allies having membranaceous stipules. 



Tribe I. Silenece. De Cand. 

 Sepals united into a cylindrical, 4 or 5- toothed tube. 



1. Dianthus. Linn. Pink. 



Calyx monophyllous, tubular, 5-toothed, with about 4, imbri- 

 cated, opposited scales or bractece at the base. Petals 5, 

 clawed. Caps, cylindrical, 1-celled. — Name derived from 

 %evs, dios, Jupiter, and avOos, a flower ; dedicated as it were 

 to Deity itself; to express the high value that was set 

 upon this charming genus of plants. 



Decandria. Digynia. 



1. D. plumarius, Sprengel. Garden Pink. Stem erect, few 

 flowered ; scales of the calyx mucronate, very short, appressed ; 



