72 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
Cc. 
Sepals more or less united. Petals with claws. Capsule several— 
many-seeded. 
(a) Calyx without bracts, its lobes long and leaf-like. 
| Agrostemma, IV. 
(b) Calyx without bracts, lobes not leaf-like. Styles 3 or 4. 
Silene, V. 
(c) Calyx without bracts, lobes not Jeaf-like. Styles 5 (rarely 4). 
Lychnis, VI. 
(d) Calyx with little bracts at the base. Styles 2. 
Dianthus, VII. 
I. STELLARIA, L. Chickweed. 
Slender, usually smooth herbs. Flowers small, white, soli- 
tary, or in forking cymes. Sepals 5 (rarely 4). Petals 5 
(rarely 4), 2-cleft or divided. Stamens 10 (rarely 8, 5, or 3), 
maturing in 2 sets. Styles 3 (rarely 4 or 5), opposite the same 
number of petals; ovary 1-celled, many-ovuled. Capsule 
short, splitting into as many valves as there are styles. 
1. S. media, Cyrill. Common CuiIcKWEEpD. Stem prostrate, 
6-18 in. long, with a line or two of hairs along it. Leaves ovate, 
taper-pointed, the lower petioled, the upper sessile. Petals shorter 
than the sepals, sometimes wanting. An annual weed, introduced 
from Europe, common in damp, shady places N. 
2. S. longifolia, Muhl. LoNnG-LEAVED SrircHwort. Stem 
slender, usually erect, 8-18 in. high, often sharply 4-angled. Leaves 
linear or nearly so, spreading. Flower-clusters peduncled, many- 
flowered, the pedicels spreading. Petals 2-parted, at length longer 
than the calyx. Perennial in meadows and grassy thickets, espe- 
cially N. 
II. CERASTIUM, L. 
Annual or perennial. Stems diffuse, usually downy ; leaves 
opposite. Flowers white, peduncled, in terminal, regularly 
forking cymes. Sepals 4-5. Petals 4-5, notched or 2-cleft. 
Stamens 10. Styles 5 or less. Capsule cylindrical, 1-celled, 
many-seeded.* 
1. C. vulgatum, L. Movsr-frar CurckwrErp. Annual or some- 
times perennial. Stems diffuse, tufted, clammy-downy, 6-12 in. 
