230 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
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Flowers red or purple, rarely white. : 
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Stems not viscid or only slightly so. 
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1. L. alba, Mill. (Fig. 6, pl. 38.) Wuire Campion. EvENING 
Lycunis. Roots biennial. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, hairy and viscid. Calyx 
broadly egg-shaped, hairy. Petals with two lobes and with a conspicuous 
lip appendage at the throat of the flower. Flowers white or with a tinge 
of pink, opening toward evening and remaining open until the following 
morning. Waste places; naturalized. Blooms through the summer. 
2. L. dioica, L. (Fig. 5, pl. 39.) Rep Campion. Root biennial, 
stem 1 to 2 ft. high; viscid, hairy. Lower leaves with long foot-stalks, 
upper without foot-stalks, broad lance-shaped or oval. Petals indented, 
forming two lobes. Flowers red or white. Calyx with erect narrow 
teeth. Capsule globose. In waste places, roadside, etc. Blooms during 
summer. 
3. L. chalcedonica, L. Scartet Lycunis. Root perennial. Stems 
with soft hairs, not viscid, 1 to 23 ft. high, erect. Leaves egg-shaped. 
Petals 2 lobed. Flowers red, in hemispheric clusters. Escaped from 
gardens locally. July-Sept. 
4. L. Flos-cuculi, L. (Fig. 6, pl. 39.) Raccep Rosin. Cuckoo 
FLOWER. Root perennial. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high, roughish above. Lower 
leaves with foot-stalks, points rounded, upper without foot-stalks, apex 
sharp pointed. Capsule teeth rolling outwards. Flowers rosy, blue or 
white. Escaped from gardens. June-Sept. 
4. GYPSOPHILA, L. 
Slender annual plant with profusely branching stems and small flowers. 
Leaves smooth, narrow. Flowers from the leaf axils. Calyx 5-toothed, 
bell-shaped. Stamens 10. Styles 2. 
G. muralis, L. Low Gyprsopnita. Annual. Stems about 6 in. high, 
much branched, slender. Leaves small and very narrow. Flowers from 
the leaf axils on long delicate foot-stalks. Flowers purplish. Waste 
places. Introduced. June-Sept. 
5. SAPONARIA, L. 
Root perennial. Stem erect, with broad lance-shaped to oval leaves, 
with 3 conspicuous veins. Flowers rather large in a crowded, or loose 
conspicuous terminal cluster. Calyx ovoid or tubular with inconspicuous 
nerves, teeth 5. 
1. §. officinalis, L. (Fig. 7, pl. 38.) Bounctna Bet. Soapwort. 
Plant growing in masses at roadsides and waste places. Flowers whitish- 
pink in dense terminal clusters, sometimes double. 
2. S. Vaccaria, L. Cow Here. (Vaccaria Vaccaria, (L.) Britton.) 
Annual. Stem and leaves very smooth. Flowers in loose clusters, pale 
red, petals without the lip-like appendage at throat of flower. Waste 
places; from Europe. June-Aug. 
