264 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



A small annual, with flowers in clusters on stiff, erect stems, 

 formerly cultivated. I have found it high up on the hills and in 

 dry fields. The garden Sweet William is a near relative of this 

 pink. D. carophyllus, an English species, is the origin of the 

 larger cultivated carnation or clove-pink. 



6. Bouncing Bet. Soapwort 



Saponaria officinalis. — Family, Pink. Color, light rose or 

 white. Leaves, lance -shaped, the lower ones broader, more 

 oval than the others, opposite. Joints of stem swollen. 



Ca/y.r, 5-toothed. Petals, 10. Stamens, 10. Styles, 2. 



A slovenly flower, still somewhat cultivated, but often running- 

 wild. The calyx bursts, and the petals seem tumbling out of 

 place. The plant is from i to 2 feet high, and has a generally 

 back-yardish appearance. 



7. Curled Mallow 



Mdlva crfspa. — Family, Mallow. Color, whitish. Leaves, 

 alternate, round, crisped. Ti^ne, summer. 



Sepals, 5, united at base. A 3-leaved involucel underneath. 

 Petals, 5, inversely heart-shaped. Stamens, numerous, united 

 into a column. Pistils, many, making in fruit a ring of kid- 

 ney-shaped, i-seeded carpels, which separate when ripe. The 

 foivers are small, sessile, crowded in the leaf-axils. Tall and 

 straight. 



8. Musk-mallow 



M. moschata has white or magenta flowers, which smell 

 pleasantly of musk. The leaves are 5-lobed, their divisions 

 cleft or parted. Flowers borne on short peduncles, clustered 

 on the branches and stem. 



g. Velvet-leaf. Indian Mallow 



Abutilon Avicennae. — Family, Mallow. Color, yellow. 

 Leaves, soft and velvety, long-petioled, heart-shaped, with 



