182 CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 



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

 from 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-tootned. 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 

 leaves 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 

 whit i! {lowers. 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 bract lets small and scarious. 



IVtals wanting; pedicels sulmmbellate 1. S. umbellata. 



1'etaK pr.-sent, equaling or surpassing the calyx; seeds smooth. 



Flowers in a diffuse c-ymi-, on filiform widely spreading or deflexed 



pedicels 2. S. longifolia. 



I 1 lowers solitary or few, on erect or ascending pedicels. 



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



i'edicels stout, tmbequul .4. S. vahda. 



