60 CARYOPHYLLACE^E. (PINK FAMILY.) 



swamps, &c., Rhode Island to Wisconsin northward, and north to the arctic re- 

 gions June -Aug. (Eu.) 



11. HOL,<frSTEU]H, L. JAGGED CIIICKWKED. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, usually jagged or denticulate at the point. Stamens 3 - 

 5, rarely 10. Styles 3. Pod ovoid, 1-celled, many-seeded, opening at the top 

 by 6 teeth. Seeds rough. Annuals or biennials, with several (white) flowers 

 in an umbel, borne on a long terminal peduncle. (Name composed of o'Xos, all, 

 and oorcoy, bone, by autiphrasis, these plants being soft am": tender.) 



1 If. UMIJELLATUM, L. Leaves oblong ; peduncle and upper part of the 

 stem glandular-pubescent; pedicels reflexed after flowering. Hills around 

 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, abundant, Prof. Porter. (Adv. from Eu.) 



12. CERASTIUM, L. MOUSE-EAR CIIICKWEED. 



Svpols 5, rarely 4. Petals as many, 2-lobed or cleft, rarely entire. Stamens 

 twice as many, or fewer. Styles equal in number to the sepals, and opposite 

 them. Pod 1 -celled, usually elongated, membranaceous, opening at the apex by 

 twice as many teeth as there were styles, many-seeded. Seeds rough. Flow- 

 ers white, in terminal cymes. (Name from Kepas, a horn, alluding to the shape 

 of the pods in many species.) 



1. Petals 2-cleJl or obrordate : parts of the flower in Jives : pods (except in No. 5) 

 longer than the calyx, and usually more or less curved. 



# Petals hardly longer than the calyx, often shorter, sometimes altogether 

 wanting : stamens occasionally only 5. 



1. C. VULGA.TUM, L. (MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED.) Very hairy and rather 

 clammy, nearly erect (4' -9' high) ; leaves ovate or obovate ; bracts herbaceous; 

 flowers (small) in very close clusters at first; pedicels even in fruit not longer 

 than the acute sqxds. Q[) (f) Grassy banks. May -July. The names of this 

 and the next were transposed by Linnaeus himself, and have consequently Urn 

 differently applied by different authors ever since. This is the C. vtilgatum of 

 English botanists, and of the Linnaean herbarium : but the next is so called in 

 Sweden and on the Continent generally. (Nat. from Eu.) 



'2 C. viscOsuM, L. (LARGER MOUSE-EAR CHICKWEED.) Stems clum- 

 .iry, spreading ((>'- 15' long) ; leaves oblong, greener; upper bracts scarious- 

 margined; flowers at first clustered; pedicels longer than the obtuse sepals, the 

 eii icr ones in fruit much longer. (,) y. Grassy fields and copses. May- July. 

 - A. larger and coarser plant than No. 1, the flowers larger. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 # # Petals longer than the calyx. 



1. C. iifitsms Raf. Clammy-pubescent; stems erect, slender, grooved, 

 diffusely branched (6' -20' high); cyme loose and open, many-flowered; leaves 

 obkng-lanceolate, acute, the lowest spatulate; peduncles mostly elongated ; petals 

 longer than the calyx ; pods nodditfg on the stalks, curved ujxntrdx, thrice the length 

 of t/ie calyx, (i) Moist places, Vermont to Kentucky and southward. 

 July. 



