PINK FAMILY. Caryophyliacese. 



ficant. 10-25 inches high. Common in waste placeb 

 everywhere. 



Like the bladder campion ; a foreign 

 infcatchfly"" s P ecies w ^ a beautifully marked calyx 

 Silenenocti- resembling spun glass, but smaller, the 

 flora petals similar. The plant is hairy-sticky, 



White the leaves blunt lance-shaped. The white 



s" t mb r flowers are delicately fragrant, and open 

 only at dusk, closing on the following 

 morning. Probably it is exclusively fertilized by moths, 

 as many such visitors may be seen sipping at the newly 

 opened blossoms in the early evening. 1-3 feet high. 

 Common in waste places every where. Found in Camp- 

 ton, N. H. 



A charming plant naturalized from the 

 Evening Lych= ... , . „ . 



nis or White olcl country, with densely fine-hairy, 

 Campion ovate-lance-shaped leaves and stem, both 



Lychnis alba dark green; the leaves opposite. The 

 Wn ' te sweet-scented flowers are white, closely 



u y- c o er resemo i m g those of Silene noctiflora ; in 

 fact the habit and form of these two species are almost 

 identical. Both open their blossoms toward evening 

 and close them during the following morning. The 

 white petals are deeply cleft and crowned at the base 

 with miniature petallike divisions. The calyx is in- 

 flated, and often stained maroon-crimson along the ribs, 

 which are sticky-hairy ; after becoming still more in- 

 flated it withers and leaves exposed the vase-shaped 

 light brown seed-vessel, pinked at the small opening 

 above. 1-2 feet high. In waste places and borders of 

 fields, from Me. to N. J. and N. Y. Probably farther 

 west. Found at Phillip's Beach, Marblehead, Mass. 



„-»,. A densely hairy straight-branched an- 



Corn Cockle . , . « ^, , ? 



AffTostemma nual, adventive from Europe, and found 



Githago mostly in grain fields. The magenta flow- 



Magenta ers> no t brilliant, but broad and showy, 



y ~ . with verv long linear sepals much ex- 



September . , ° , . _ ,.„ . , 



ceeding the petals in length. Fertilized 



by butterflies and moths. 1-3 feet high. Common or 



occasional throughout the country. Reported in Neb. 



(Webber). 



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