PLATE II. 



1. AGROSTEMMA CORONARIA, 



ROSE CAMPION. 



THE plants of this genus are of the hardy herbaceous, annual, 

 and biennial-perennial kinds. 



It belongs to the class and order of Decandria Pentagynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Caryophyllei. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a one-leafed, coriaceous, or 

 leather-like, tubulous, five-toothed, permanent perianthium: th6 co- 

 rolla has five petals, with claws of the length of the tube of ihe 

 calyx; and border spreading, obtuse, and undivided: the stamina 

 are ten awl-shaped filaments, five alternately later than the other 

 five, inserted into each claw of the petals: the antherae simple: the 

 pistillum is an ovate germ, with filiform, erect styles, of the length 

 of the stamina, and simple stigmas: the pericarpium an oblong- 

 ovate, covered, one celled, five-valved capsule: the seeds are very 

 numerous, kidney-shaped, and dotted: the receptacles free, as many 

 as seeds; the interior ones gradually longer. 



There are a number of different species, but those for cultivation, 

 as ornamental plants are, 1. A. coronaria, Rose Campion: 2. A. 

 Flos Jovis, Umbellate Rose Campion. 



The first of these species, in its natural state, -has the corolla 

 white, with the middle red; and it has the habit of the species be- 

 low, but is harder, more pulpy, and more lomentose. The calyxes 

 are much harder, callous, and covered with a white pile, with hard 

 thick ribs, not green hairy lines as in that: the petals are much 

 broader, slightly emarginate: the auricles bifid: the flowers not 



