64 PINK FAMILY. 



* Culyx with a scaly cup or set of bracts at its base: styles 2. 



1. DIANTHUS. Calyx cylindrical, faintly many-striate. Petals without a crown. 



Seeds attached by the face: embryo in the albumen and nearly straight! 

 * * Calyx naked at base : seeds attached by the edge : embryo curved. 



2. LYCHNIS. Styles 5, rarely 4. Calyx not angled, but mostly 10-nerved. 



3. SILENE. Styles 3. Calyx not angled, mostly 10-nerved. 



4. VACCARIA. Styles 2. Calyx pyramidal, becoming 5-wing-angled. 



5. SAPONARIA. Styles 2. Calyx' cylindrical or oblong, not tingled, 5-toothed. 



Pod 4-valved at the top. 



6. GYPSOPH1LA. Styles 2. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft, or thin and delicate 



below the sinuses. Pod 4-valved. Flowers small and panicled, resembling 

 those of Sandwort, &c. 



II. CHICKWEED FAMILY, &c. Petals spreading, without 

 claws, occasionally wanting. Sepals (4 or o) separate or united 

 only at l>a-e, or rarely higher up. Flowers small, compared with 

 the Pink Family, and the plants usually low and spreading or tufted. 



* Without stipules, generally with petals : pod several-seeded. 



7. SAGINA. Styles and valves of the pod as many as the sepals and alternate 



with them (4 or 5). Petals entire or none. Small plants. 



8. CKHASTIt'M. Styles as many as the sepals and opposite them (5). Petals 



no'ched at the end or 2-cleft, rarely none. Pod mostly elongated, opening at 

 the top by 10 teeth. 



9. STKLLARiA. Styles fewer than the sepals (3 or sometimes 4) and opposite 



as many of them. Petals 2-clefr, or sometimes none. Pod globular or ovoid, 

 splitting into twice as many valves as there are, styles. 



JO. AHENAHIA. Styles (commonly only 3) fewer than the sepab and opposite as 

 manv of them. Petals entire, rarefy none. Pod globular or oblong, splitting 

 into as many or twice as many valves as there are styles. 



* * With scanous stipules betu-ecn tin'. Inn-i's, conspicuous and entire petals, and a 



many-tecded 3 - b-valoed pod, 



11. STKROTLARIA. Styles usually 3. Leaves opposite. 



12. SPKRGULA. Styles u. as many as the sepals and alternate with them. 



Leaves in whorls. 



* * * Without petals : the fruit (utricle) 1-seeded and indehigcenl. 



13. AXYCHIA. Sepals 5, nearly distinct. Stamens 2-5. Stigmas 2, sessile. 



Stipules and (lowers minute. 



14. SCLEH ANTlirS. Sepals (5) united be'ow into an indurated cup, narrowed at 



the throat where it bears- 5 or 10 stamens, enclosing the small utricle. 

 Sryles 2. Stipules none. 



* * * * Without petals, but the 5 sejntls icJtite and petal-like inside: stipules obscure 



if an li ' f'' u i-t a 3-celled many-seeded pod. 



15. MOLLUGO. Stamens generally 3, on the receptacle. Stigmas 3. Pod 



3-valved, the partitions breaking away from the seed-bearing axis and ad- 

 hering to the middle of the valves. 



1. DIANTHUS, PINK. (Greek name, meaning Jove's own flower.) All 



but the first species cultivated for ornament : 11. summer. 



* Flowers sessile and main/ in a close cluster, with lomj and narrow-pointed bracts 



under the calyx, except in the lust. 



D. Armeria, DEPTFORD PINK of Europe, has got introduced into fields 

 in a few places ; a rather insignificant plant, somewhat hairv, narrow-leaved, 

 with very small scentless flowers ; petals rose-color with whitish dots. 



D. barbatus, SWEET WILLIAM or Brxcn PINK, of Europe, with thin- 

 nish oblong-lanceolate green leaves, and a very flat-topped cluster of various- 

 colored flowers, the petals sharply toothed, abound) in all country gardens; the 

 many double-flowered varieties are more choice. 2/ 



D. Carthusian6rum, CARTHUSIANS' PINK, from Eu., has linear leaves, 

 slender stems, and a dense cluster of small flowers ; bracts ovate or oblong, 

 abruptly awn-tipped, brown, shorter than the calyx ; petals merely toothed, 

 short, usually dark purple or crimson : now rather scarce in gardens. 1^ 



