Vou. II.] PINK FAMILY. 13 
15. Silene Menziésii Hook. Menzies’ 
Pink. (Fig. 1454.) 
Silene Menziesii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 90. pl. 30. 
1830. 
Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, 
leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely 
glandular-pubescent, 6’-18’ high. Leaves sessile, 
or the lowest narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate- 
lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate at each end, minutely ciliate on the mar- 
gins, 1/-2!4’ long; flowers axillary and terminal, 
numerous, slender-peduncled, white (or pink?), 
4/’-5’’ long; petals 2-cleft, crownless, longer than 
the 5-toothed calyx; capsule about the length of the 
‘calyx; seeds black, minutely tuberculate. 
In damp soil, western Nebraska to the Northwest 
Territory, British Columbia, California and New Mex- 
ico. June-Aug. 
4. LYCHNIS L. Sp. Pl. 436. 1753. 
Herbs, mainly erect, with the aspect of Sz/ewe. Calyx ovoid, tubular, or inflated, 5- 
toothed, 10-nerved. Petals 5, narrowly clawed, the blade entire, 2-cleft, or laciniate, gener- 
ally crowned. Stamens 10. Ovary t-celled or incompletely several-celled at the base, 
many-ovuled; styles 5, opposite the calyx-teeth (occasionally 4 or rarely even 3). Capsule 
dehiscent by Io or fewer apical teeth or valves. [From the Greek for lamp, in allusion to 
the flame-colored flowers of some species. ] 
A genus of about 35 species, natives of the north temperate and arctic zones. In addition to 
the following about 8 others occur in the northern and western parts of North America. 
Calyx-teeth not twisted; plants pubescent, glandular or glabrate. 
Flowers cymose or panicled: calyx enlarged by the ripening pod. 
Fruiting calyx much enlarged, ovoid, obovoid or globose. 
Plants viscid- pubescent; flowers usually dioecious. 
Flowers white or pink, opening in the evening. L. alba. 
Flowers red, opening in the morning. L. dioica. 
Plant roughish-pubescent; flowers perfect, scarlet. L. Chalcedonica. 
Fruiting calyx campanulate or tubular. 
Petals deeply laciniate; introduced species. 
Petals entire or emarginate; native western species. 
Flowers solitary; calyx inflated; plants arctic-alpine. 
Flower nodding; pod erect. 
Flower and pod erect or nearly so. 
Calyx-teeth twisted; plant densely white-woolly all over. 
. Flos-cucult. 
. Drummonat. 
. affinis. 
Coronaria. 
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L. apetala. 
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1. Lychnis alba Mill. White Campion. Evening Lychnis. (Fig. 1455.) 
Lychnis alba Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. 
Lychnis vespertina Sibth. Fl, Oxon. 146. 1794. 
Biennial, viscid-pubescent, loosely and freely 
branching, 1°-2° high. Leaves ovate-oblong 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1/-3’ long, the lower 
tapering into a margined petiole, the upper 
sessile; flowers few, loosely paniculate, 9//-12/’ 
broad, white or pinkish, opening at dusk and 
remaining open into the morning of the next 
day, slightly fragrant, often dioecious; calyx at 
first tubular, 6’’-9’’ long, about 2’’ wide, swell- 
ing with the ripening pod so as to become ovoid 
and 6/’-7’’ in diameter, its teeth short, lanceo- 
late; petals obovate, 2-cleft, crowned; teeth of 
the capsule 2-cleft, nearly erect. 
In waste places and on ballast, occasional in the 
maritime provinces of Canada, Ontario and in 
the Eastern and Middle States. Adventive or 
naturalized from Europe. Summer. 
