XXXVI GARDEN BOTANY. 



L. Chalcedonica, Scarlet Lychnis, a tall herb, rather hair}', with 

 ovate-lanceolate slightly cordate and clasping green leaves, and a close flat- 

 topped cluster of many flowers ; the 2-lobed petals usually bright scarlet. 



L. Flos-CUCUli, Ragged-Robin, is somewhat clammy-pubescent; leaves 

 lanceolate ; flowers panicled ; petals rose-red, and cut into 4 narrow lobes, 

 commonly double-flowered in the gardens. 



Order PORTULACACEJE. Purslane Family. 



Manual, p. 63. — The common garden species wholly belong to the genus 



1. Portulaca, Purslane. The Common Purslane is a weed, rather than 

 a cultivated plant, although sometimes used as a pot-herb. 



P. grand.ifl.ora, Showy P., has slender and cylindrical fleshy leaves, 

 with a beard in their axils, and large, brilliant red, scarlet, or purple flowers 

 (or in some varieties white or yellow), with a 5-angled white eve under the yel- 

 low stamens. 



P. Gilliesii is like the last (probably a mere variety of it, or else they have 

 crossed freely), but has shorter leaves and no white eye to the flower. These 

 two are the handsome Portulacas so common in the gardens, blossoming all 

 summer, opening only in sunshine and but once. 



Order MALVACEAE. Mallow Family. 



Manual, p. 65. — Known at once by the numerous monadelphous stamens, 

 with kidney-shaped anthers. 



Ovaries many and heaped together in a head. 



Involucel, like an outer calyx, 6- 9-leaved or cleft. ... 1. KITA1BELIA. 



Involucel of 3 heart-shaped leaves 2. MALOPE. 



Ovaries or cells of the compound ovary 5 or more in a circle. 

 Each one-seeded : stigmas capitate, 5 - 10. . . . Man. p. 67. SIDA. 

 Each one-seeded: stigmas running down the branches of the style: 

 fruit a circle of 9 to 30 carpels round a solid centre. 



Petals truncate at the end, wedge-shaped 



Petals obcordate, or obovate with a notch at the end. 

 Involueel 3-leaved. ....... 



Involucel 3-lobed. 



Involucel of 6 or more lobes or leaves. .... 



Each several-seeded : no involucel under the calyx. 

 Each of the 5 or only 3 cells many-seeded. 

 Involucel under the calyx of many narrow pieces. 



Calyx 5-cleft, not falling off. 



(ah x splitting down one side, and falling off early. 

 Involucel of 3 broad toothed or cut leaves : seeds bearing long wool. 



1. Kitaibelia vitifolia is a tall, leafy, hardy perennial, with heart-shape.l, 

 5-lobed, toothed leaves, and white petals. 



2. Malo'pe malacoides is a low annual, with ovate crenate leaves, and 

 long-peduncled purplish or white flowers : rare. 



3. Callirrhoe, Man. p. 66. — The following from the South and West are 

 very ornamental in gardens, especially the first. Leaves palmately parted or 

 cleft and cut. 



C. pedata. Erect and smooth biennial or annual, with rich mauve- 

 crimson flowers, no involucel, produced all summer. Texas. 



