46 CARYOPHYLLACEX. (PINK FAMILY.) 
1. PARONYCHIA, Tourn. 
Sepals 5, united at the base, concave and mucronate or awned at the apex. 
Petals bristle-like or tooth-like, alternate with the 5 stamens, and inserted with 
them on the base of the calyx. Style long, 2-cleft. Utricle included. Seed 
resupinate. Radicle superior or ascending. —Low herbs, with conspicuous sil- 
very stipules, and minute flowers in loose or compact cymes. 
1. P. dichotoma, Nutt. Smooth; stems slender, erect; leaves linear- 
subulate; those of the barren stems imbricated ; cymes fastigiate, diffuse; se. 
pals linear, 3-ribbed, slender-pointed ; petals minute, bristle-like. (Anychia 
argyrocoma, Ell.) — Rocks on the mountains of North Carolina, and westward, 3 
July- Nov. 1} — Stems 6! —12' high. 
leaves linear, acute; cymes capitate, the flowers concealed by the large silvery 
stipules ; sepals lanceolate, hairy, slender-pointed ; petals minute, tooth-like. — 
Mountains of Georgia and North Carolina. July- Sept. X — Stems 6/-10' — 
high. Stipules nearly as long as the leaves. 
3. P. herniarioides, Nutt. Rough-pubescent ; stems prostrate, diffusely- - 
branched; leaves oval or oblong, mucronate ; flowers axillary, solitary, sessile; 
sepals subulate, with a short and spreading point. (Anychia herniarioides, 
Michx.) — Dry sand ridges in the middle districts, Georgia to North Carolina. 
July-Oct. @—Stems 4!— 6! long. Leaves 3'/— 4/' long. 936 c ge 
4. P. Baldwinii. Finely pubescent; stems prostrate, diffusely-branched ; 
branches alternate, one-sided, filiform; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, narrowed into a petiole; cymes diffuse, naked ; sepals oblong, 3-ribbed, - 
ciliate, short-pointed ; petals bristle-like, as long as the stamens; utricle equal- 
ling or rather longer than the sepals; style 2-cleft to the middle. (Anychia 
Baldwinii, Torr. $- Gray.) — Dry sandy soil, Florida and Georgia. July- Oct. 
@ and @— Stems 1}°-3° long. Upper leaves sometimes alternate. 
2. ANYCHIA, Michx. 
Sepals 5, distinet, slightly mucronate at the apex. Petals none, Stamens 
2-3, inserted on the base of the calyx. Style very short. Stigmas spreading: 
Utricle exserted. Seed erect. Radicle inferior. — An erect slender annual, 
with forking setaceous spreading branches. Leaves thin, oblong, obtuse, nar- 
rowed at the base. Flowers minute, solitary or clustered in the forks of the 
branches, greenish, are: 
_ 1, A. dichotoma, Michx. (Queria Canadensis, L.) — Barren hills, South. 
Carolina and northward. July and August. — Stem 4!— 10! high. js 
_ 8. SIPHONYCHIA, Torr & Gray. ` : 
Sepals 5, united to the middle, concave and petal-like abore, obtuse or mu- 
