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ginous juice is said to make soap.) Calyx tubular, 5-toothed, without 

 scales ; petals 5, uuguiculate ; stamens 10 ; styles 2 ; capsule oblong, 

 1-celled. Petals often crowned. 



1 S. officinalis L. Bouncing Bet. Lvs. lanceolate, inclining to elliptical ; fls. 

 in paniculate fascicle-.; cal. cylindrical; crown of the petals linear. — If. By 

 roadsides. N. E. to Ga. A shady, smooth, succulent plant, with handsome, pink- 

 like flowers. St. 1 — 2f high. Lvs. 2 — 3' long, J or more as wide, very acute. 

 Fls. many, flesh -colored, often double. The plant has a bitter taste, and makes 

 lather with water. JL, Aug. § Eur. 



2 S. (Vaccaria) vulgaris Mdik. Lvs. ovate, lanceolate, sessile ; fls. in pan- 

 niculatc cymes ; cal. pyramidal, 5-angled, smooth ; bracts membranous, acute. — 

 (D Gardens and cultivated grounds. Whole plant smooth, a foot or more high. 

 Lvs. broadest at base, 1 — 2' long, \ as wide, tapering to an acute apex. Fls. on 

 long stalks, pale-red. Caps. 4-toothed. Sds. globous, black. July, Aug. 

 §t Eur. 



3. SILENE, L. Campion. (Silemcs was a drunken divinity of the 

 Greeks, covered with slaver, as these plants arc with a viscid secretion.) 

 Calyx tubular, swelling, without scales at the base, 5-toothed ; petals 5, 

 unguiculate, often crowned with scales at the mouth, 2 or many-cleft, 

 or entire; stamens 10 ; styles 3 ; capsule 3-cellcd, opening at top by 6 

 teeth, many-seeded. 



$ Acaulescent, low, tufted. Perennial No. 1 



5 Caulescent. — Petals fringe-cleft, white or rose-color. Perennial Nos. 2 — i 



— Petals biful or entire. — Calyx inflated, veiny. Perennial Nos. 5, 6 



— Calyx close on the pod. (*) 



* Flowers spicate, alternate. Annua!" Nos. 7, 8 



* Flowers not spicate. — Petals white, closed in sunshine Nos. 9, 10 



— Petals red, purple, etc., — bifid Nos. 11, 12 



— entire Nos. 13—15 



1 S. acaulis L. Low and densely casspitous ; lvs. linear, ciliate at base ; ped. 

 solitary, short, 1-flowered ; cal. campanulate, slightly inflated ; pet. obcordate, 

 crowned. — 2(. A little turfy plant, 1 — 3' high, on tho AVhite Mts., N. H., and 

 throughout Arctic Am. Sts. scarcely any. Leaves numerous, \' long. Fls. 

 purple. 



2 S. stellata Ait. Erect, pubescent; lvs. in whorls of As, oval-lanceolaie, acumin- 

 ate ; cat looso and inflated ; petals fimbriate. — If. An elegant plant, woods and 

 prairies, Can. to Car., W. to 111. and Ark. St. 2 — 3f high, paniculately cymous. 

 Lvs. 2 — 3' long, A- as wide, tapering to a long point, sessile. Cal. pale green, 

 with more deeply colored veins. Petal3 white, lacerately fringed, claws webbed 

 at base. Jl. 



3 S. ovata Ph. Erect, puberulent; lvs. opposite, lance-ovate, acuminate; cal. 

 ovate, not inflated; pet. many-cleft, crownless. — Virg. to Ga., rare. Sts. stout, 

 2 — 4f high, branched from the base. Lvs. 4—5' long, broadest at base. Claws 

 of the white petals exserted from tho short calyx, tho limb deeply and repeatedly 

 forked, with linear segments. Fil. long, exserted. 



4 S. Baldwinii Nutt. Weak hairy; lvs. obovate-spatvlate ; calyx not inflated; 

 pet. cuneiform, divaricately fimbriate. — River b.xnks near Quincy, Fla. Sts. de- 

 cumbent at base, 1 to 2f high. Lvs. few, much shorter than the mternodes, 1 to 

 2' long, the upper elliptical, acute. Cymo of 3 to 5 largo (2' broad), pale rose- 

 colored flowers. Apr. 



5 8. nivea DC. Minutely puberulent, erect, subsimpb; lvs. oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminata; fls. few, solitary, leafy; cal. inflated; pet. 2-cleft, with a small bifid 

 crown; caps, shorter than its stipe. — 2£ In moist places, Penn.. Ohio, 111., rare. St 

 Blender, leafy, 1 J to 3f high, generally forked near the top Lv3. 2 to 3' by 6 to 

 9", tapering to a very slender point, floral ones lance-ovate. Fls. 1 to 3. CaL 

 reticulated. Petals white. 



6 S. inflata Smith. Bladder Campion. Glabrous and glaucous; lvs. ovate- 

 knceolatc ; fls. in cymous, leafless panicles, drooping ; cal. ovoid-globular, much 



