74. CARYOPHYLLACES. 
polygamous. 
1, Saponaria. Calyx 5-angled becoming 5-winged : Nie teeth short, not 
foliaceous: styles 2, capsule 4-5 valved. 
2. Silene. Calyx commonly 9-nerved, styles 3: capsule opening by as 
many or twice as many teeth. 
8. Lychnis. Calyx 10-nerved, styles 4 or 5, alternate with the petals 
when of the same number: capsule opening by as many or twice as 
many teeth: perennials. 
4. Agrostemma. Styles 5 opposite the petals: calyx-teeth conspicuously 
prolonged into foliaceous appendages. 
TRIBE 11. Sepals free or slightly united at the very base. Pet- 
als unappendaged, more or less narrowed below but not to a dis- 
tinct claw, inserted with the stamens on the margin of the disk 
at the base of the sessile ovary, not rarely inconspicuous or none. 
-* Stipules none. : 
+ . Capsule cylindric more or less elongated, often curved, dehiscent 
Ly twice as many teeth as there are carpels. 
. Cerastium. Capsule cylindric dehiscent with twice as many equal 
teeth as styles: petals emarginate or bifid; styles 5, rarely 3 or 4. 
+ + Capsule ovoid or oblong, relatively short, dehiscent by as 
many or twice as many teeth as there are styles. 
++ Styles usually fewer than the sepals, when of the same number 
opposite them. 
6. Alsime. Capsule globose to oblong, with as many valves as styles, — 
petals bifid or 2-parted: styles 3, rarely 2, 4 or 5. 
7. Arenaria. Sepals 5, petals as many, entire or emarginate TBODY, 
wanting: styles 3, 4 or 5. 
4+ ++ Styles as many as the sepals and alternate with them. 
8. Alsinella. Capsule globose with as many entire yalves as styles: 
~ sepals 4 or 5, patals entire as many as the sepals or wanting. 
.* * Stipules present scarious or setiform: petals undivided. 
+ Petals conspicuous, styles distinct. 
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9. Spergula. Styles 5, alternate with the sepals and with the entire 
.valves of the capsule. 
10. Tissa. Styles and valves of the capsuie 3, very rarely 5. 
Tribe I. Silenee DC. Sepals united into a 4- or 5-toothed or 
-lobed calyx. P etals unguiculate, often scale-bearing or appendaged 
at the Junction of the blade and claw, inserted with the stamens on 
the stipe of the ovary. Stipules none. Flowers usually showy, 
pee or r polygamous. 
1 SAPONARIA L. Gen. n. 564. 
Rensotls branching herbs with entire leaves.and showy pink or 
white flowers in terminal clusters or panicles; blooming in sum- 
mer, Calyx tubular or obovoid, 5-toothed, terete, with numerous 
faint veins or conspicuously 5 -angled. Petals 5. Stamens 10. 
Styles 2. Capsule 1-celled or lmperfectly 2—-4-celled ,at base, 
dehiscent by 4 short teeth. Seeds ne a attached, ‘Embryo 
curved. | . te) 
