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CARYOPHYLLACEJ2. (PINK FAMILY.) 
4. IiYCHIVIS, Tourn. Cockle. Ragged Robin. 
Calyx tubular, naked at the base. Stamens 10. Styles 5. 
Pod 1-celled, or half 5-celled, scarcely stalked, opening at the top 
hy 5 or 10 teeth. Embryo coiled in a ring. (Name from \v\vos , 
a lamp , the cottony covering of such species as the L. coronaria 
of our gardens having been used for wicks.) 
1- 1*. Gitliskg’o, Lam. (Corn Cockle.) Annual, hairy, 
branched ; leaves linear; calyx with long teeth, leaf-like in fruit, 
nbbed ; petals crownless, entire (purple). — Grain-fields, introduced, 
too well known to farmers as a troublesome weed. (Agrost6mma 
Githago, L.) v 5 
Suborder II. ALSINEAD. The Chickweed Family. 
5. ARENARIA, L. Sandwort. 
Sepals 5, rarely 4. Petals as many, entire. Stamens twice as 
many. Styles 3 (rarely 2 or 4), opposite the outer sepals. Pod 
sp itting from above into as many valves as styles, the valves 
sometimes 2-cleft. Flowers terminal, solitary or cymose, per¬ 
fect, white. (Name from arena , sand.) 
§ 1. Alsine. Valves of the capsule 3, entire: seeds naked. Leaves 
commonly awl-shaped or thread-form. 
1 t n * S ?* llarr ^ sa * Alichx. (Pine-barren Sandwort.) Dense* 
y uned from a deep perpendicular root; leaves closely imbricated , 
nnt S J >rC{ ! in &' ai °L shaped, short, channelled ; branches naked and nii* 
1 1 ^ U Y a ^ ove » 8eve ral-flowered ; sepals obtuse , ovate, short* 
May ^july ^ ^ ^ UrC 8and ’ k° n S Island and New Jersey. 
• _ V M*c:hx. (Rock Sandwort.) Erect, or spread- 
i , r °^ n a Sma . root » smooth ; leaves slender , between aicl-shaped and 
ansue-jorm, with many others clustered in the axils; cyme diffuse, 
naked many-flowered ; sepals pointed , 3 -ribbed, ovate, as long as the 
pot. U Rocks and dry banks, Vermont to Michigan. July.— 
d ranches and leaves generally spreading, so that the name is not 
appropriate. ° 
Spreng. (Mountain Sandwort.) 
?, fted J fr0m Slendcr roots , smooth; /ear** linear-thread- 
venal * ^ 18tant ’ not clustered, obtuse; cyme few-flowered; 
syals oblong , obtuse , nearly equalling the pod. U - Crevices of 
rocks, summit of the Shawangunk and Whiteface Mountains, New 
York, Green Mountains, and White Mountains. July -Sept - 
