90 CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 



petals 5, 2-cleffc ; stamens 10 or 5 ; styles 5 ; capsule 

 tubular, opening at the end with. 10 or rarely 5 teeth. 

 (Name from the Greek keras, a horn, from the shape of 

 the capsule in some species.) 



13. MALACHIUM (Mouse-ear Chick weed). Sepals 5 ; 

 petals 5, deeply 2-cleft; stamens 10; styles alternate with 

 the sepals ; capsule opening to the middle with 5 valves. 

 (Name from the Greek mdlakos, feeble, from the nature 

 of the plant.) 



14. CHERL^RIA (Cyphel). Sepals 5 ; petals 0, or 5, 

 exceedingly minute, notched ; stamens 10, the 5 outer 

 with glands af the base ; styles 3 ; capsule 3-valved ; 

 flowers with their stamens or pistils imperfect. (Name 

 from J. H. Cherler, an eminent botanist.) 



1. DIANTHUS (Pink). 



* Flowers clustered. 



1. D. Armeria (Deptford Pink). Stem and leaves 

 downy .; flowers in close tufts ; calyx-scales very narrow, 

 downy, as long as the tube. Waste places ; rare. From 

 1 to 2 feet high, with rose-coloured scentless flowers, 

 dotted with white. Fl. July, August. Annual. 



2. D. prolifer '(Proliferous Pink). Stem smooth ; 

 leaves roughish at the edge ; flowers in heads ; calyx 

 scales membranous, pellucid. Gravelly pastures ; rare. 

 Growing about a foot high, and readily distinguished by 

 its heads of rose-coloured flowers, only one of which 

 opens at a time, and by the brown dry scales in which 

 the heads of flowers are enclosed. 



** Flowers not clustered. 



3. D. GaryopJiyllus (Clove Pink, Carnation, or Clove 

 Gilly-flower, that is, July flower). Flowers solitary ; 

 calyx scales 4, broad, pointed, one-fourth as long as the 

 calyx ; petals notched ; leaves linear, glaucous, with 



