PINK FAMILY 



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1. L. alba (Evening Campion). — Hairy, i — 3 feet high ; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate ; flowers in loose dichasial cymes, i in. across, 

 white, or rarely reddish, fragrant in the evening, dioecious ; calyx 

 greenish, inflated, teeth long ; petals deeply bifid, with ligules ; cap- 

 sule conical, lo-toothed, the teeth erect. — Fields and Hedgerows ; 

 common. — Fl. all the summer. Biennial or perennial. 



2. L, dioica (Red Campion).— A closely-allied species, differing 



LYCHNIS FLOS-cucuLi (^Ragged Robin) 



chiefly in its reddish calyx, with shorter itelh, petals red, rarely 

 white ; and sub-globose capsule with recurved teeth. — Copses 

 and hedge banks ; common. — Fl. May — July. Perennial. 



3. L. Flos-cuculi (Ragged Robin). — A pretty and well-known 

 marsh plant, with a reddish-green angular .y/^;;?,i — 2 feet high, 

 the lower part of which is roughish, with short stiff deflexed hairs, 

 the upper part slightly viscid ; leaves very narrow^ ; flowers loosely 

 dichasial, rose-coloured, or very rarely white ; calyx tubular, 

 lo-ribbed, with red veins ; petals deeply cut into linear diverging 



