CORN COCKLE 



Dianthus also. Species of Silene and Lychnis have a relation to 

 species of Dianthozcia (Noctuidae). The species pollinate Silene and 

 Lychnis, and provide for their larvae, which feed entirely on unripe 

 seeds of these plants, but Silene and Lychnis are pollinated by other 

 insects besides. The visitors are Lepidoptera (Large Skipper 

 {Hesperia silvanus), Large White (Pieris brassic<z)\ and Diptera 

 (Syrphidse, Rhingia], 



The seed of the 

 plant is dispersed by 

 the wind. The seeds 

 are blown out of the 

 open capsule, which 

 opens by 5-10 teeth or 

 valves, by the wind, 

 and the stem being tall 

 and rigid, they are 

 jerked a long distance 

 away. 



It is a sand plant, 

 and addicted to a sand 

 soil. 



The plant is in- 

 fested by such fungi 

 as Puccinia arenarice, 

 P. lychnidearum, Asco- 

 chyta Dianthi. 



Githago, Tragus, is 

 derived from the re- 

 semblance of its seeds 

 to those of the plant 

 called gith by the 

 Romans, our fennel- 

 flower. It is called 



Bachelor's Buttons, Corn Campion, Corn Cockle, Cockweed, Corn- 

 flower, Corn Pink, Drawk, Field Nigella, Gith, Gye, Hardhead, 

 Nele, Papple or Pawple, Pink, Popille, Popple, Poppy Wild Savager. 

 Field Nigella because it has a flower in structure like Nigella. 



It clogs the millstones when used with corn. The seeds are used 

 as a bird seed. 



ESSENTIAL SPECIFIC CHARACTERS: 



51. Lychnis Githago, Scop. Stem tall, wiry, dichotomous, flowers 



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CORN COCKLE (Lychnis Gitliago, Scop.) 



