182 CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 



glandular-viscid: stems from a stout root, simple, erect, 4-8 dm. high: 

 leaves f rom ' oblanceolate to lance-linear: flowers verticillate, in a long spike- 

 like thyrsus: calyx clavate; its teeth short, ciliate, and with broad mem- 

 branous margins: petals white or purplish, with slightly laciniate auricles: 

 capsule stipitate. Frequent in the mountains; from Colorado to the far 

 northwest. 



3. LYCHNIS L. COCKLE 



Perennials with the aspect /and many of the characters of Silene. Leaves 

 linear to oblanceolate. Calyx more or less inflated, 5-toothed or 5-lobed. 

 Styles 5. Capsule 5-10-toothed. Seeds with a loose membranous margin or 

 tuberculate. 



Dwarf and caespitose, with 1-flowered stems. 



Petals included, the claw narrow 1. L. montana. 



Petals exserted, the claw broad . . . . . . . 2. L. Kingii. 



Tall, erect, with simple stems . . . . . . . . 3. L. Drummondii. 



1. Lychnis montana Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 247. 1877. A dwarf 

 caespitose alpine perennial with 1-flowered stems; glandular pubescent above, 

 nearly glabrous below: petals included or nearly so, the emarginate blade 

 not broader than the very narrow claw; appendages very small: seeds rather 

 broadly membranous margined. Mountain peaks of 'Colorado and Utah. 



2. Lychnis Kingii Wats. 1. c. Pubescent throughout: petals exserted, 

 with a broad, ciliate, rather broadly auricled claw and a short broad bifid 

 blade: filaments ciliate. Northern Utah and probably Idaho and Wyoming. 



3. Lychnis Drummondii Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 1871. Finely glandular- 

 pubescent above: stems rather stout, 1 or more, 2-5 dm. high, from a stout 

 vertical root: basal leaves oblanceolate; the upper lance-linear: flowers few, 

 on stout often elongated appressed pedicels: petals included or slightly ex- 

 serted, white or purple; the entire or emarginate blade narrower than the 

 auricled claw: seeds tuberculate. (L. striata Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 

 31: 408. 1894.) From New Mexico northward and westward. 



4. SAPONARIA L. WHEAT COCKLE 



Ours a rather handsome annual weed with sessile and somewhat connate 

 leave/s and a broad open flat-topped corymb of showy rose-red flowers. Calyx 

 tubular or ovoid, strongly 5-angled. Petals 5, not crowned. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 2. Capsule dehiscent at apex by 4 teeth. 



1. Saponaria Vaccaria L. Sp. PI. 409. 1753. Glabrous: stem branched 

 above, 2-4 dm. high: leaves ovate-lanceolate: calyx sharply 5-angled, enlarged 

 in fruit. [Vaccaria Vaccaria (L.) Brit.] Naturalized from Europe; not 

 infrequent. 



6. STELLARIA L. STARWORT. CHICKWEED 



Low herbs, mostly somewhat tufted and diffuse, with solitary or cymose 

 white flowers. Sepals distinct or nearly so. Petals 2-cleft (or wanting), 

 without crown or claw and inserted with the stamens on the margin of a disk 

 under the sessile ovary. Stamens 10 or fewer. Styles usually 3. Capsule 

 globose to oblong, dehiscent by twice as many valves as there are styles. 

 Alsine of recent American authors. 



Floral bractlets small and scarious. 



Petals wanting; pedicels subumbellate . . . . . 1. S. umbellata. 



Petals present, equaling or surpassing the calyx; seeds smooth. 



Flowers in a diffuse cyme, on filiform widely spreading or deflexed 



pedicels 2. S. longifolia. 



Flowers solitary or few, on erect or ascending pedicels. 



Pedicels filiform, unequal . . . . . . . . 3. S. longipes. 



Pedicels stout, subequal ..... . 4. S. valida. 



