74 P12^K FAMILY. 



7. STELLARIA. Petals white, 2-cleft, or sometimes none. Styles usually 3, sometimes 



4. Pod globular or ovoid, splitting: into twice as many valves as there are styles. 



8. CEKASTIUM. PcUils longer than the calyx, notched at the end or 2-cleft, rarely none. 



Styles 5. Pods cylindrical, opening at the top by 10 teeth. 



■i- -i- Styles 4 or 5, alternate with the 4 or o sepals: 



9. SAGIXA. Petals entire or none. Pod .siilittiii-,' into 4 or 5 valves.- Small plants, l'-6' 



high, tufted. 

 * » }rUh scarious stipules between the lenres. rather conspicuous and entire petals, 

 and a many-seeded 0-0-1)01 ced pod. 



10. BUDA. Leaves opposite. Styles usually 3. Flowers reddish, produced all summer. 



11. SPEKGULA. Leaves in whorls. Styles 5, as many as the sepals and alternate with 



them. Flowers otherwise as in Buda. 



1. DIANTHUS, PINK. (Creek: Jove's floicer.) All but the first 

 species cultivated for oruauieul ; flowers summer. 

 * Fldiners snssile and many in a close cluster ; bracts lance-aicl- shaped. 

 D. Armeria, Linn. Deptford Pink. ® A rather insignificant plant ; 



leaves hairy, linear; flowers very small, scentless; petals rose-color with 



whitish dots. Eu. Nat. eastward. 



D. barbatus, Linn. Sweet William or Bunch Pixk. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, green ; various colored flowers in a very flat-topped cluster ; 



the petals sharply toothed. Abounds in all country gardens ; many 



double-flowered choice varieties. 11 Eu. 



« * Flowers single at the ends of the branches; leaves narrnic and often 

 grass-like, rather rigid, glabrous and glaucous, visually without any evi- 

 dent veins. 



•*- Bracts linear, amte, as hnvj as the calyx. ® (2) 



D. Chinensis, Linn, (or 1). IIeui>ewi(;ii). Ciiixa or Indian 1'ink. 

 Leaves lanceolate, short, and broad, less rigid than any of the following ; 

 the large petals toothed or cut, of various colors, red predominating. Nu- 

 merous garden varieties, — dwarf, double and single-flowered, some with 

 deeply cut petals. 



-^■t- Bractn short and mostly broad. 2L 

 ■w Petals deeply fringed. 



D. plumarius, Linn. Common Pink of old gardens. A low, hardy 

 species, making broad tufts, with small, very glaucous leaves, sending up 

 flower-stems in early summer, the white, or pink, or variegated petals 

 cut into a fringe of slender lobes. Eu. 



D. superbus. Linn. Taller, less tufted, and later-flowered; the large 

 petals entirely dissected into delicate, almost capillary divisions. Eu. 

 ■w *+ Petals dentate or entire. 



D. Caryophyllus, Linn. Carnation, Clove Pink, Picotee, Grena- 

 dine, etc. Stems hard or almost woody below ; long-linear, very glaucous 

 leaves ; the bracts very short and broad. Various colors, as white, pink, 

 red, yellow, and variegated. In this country grown mostly indoors, but 

 there are many hardy bordi'r varieties. Eu. 



D. deltoldes, Linn. A low plant (1° or so high) gi'owing in mats; 

 leaves short, narrowly lanceolate, roughish ; bracts sharp and half as long 

 as calyx-tube; petals rose-color or white. Cult, from Eu. and occasion- 

 ally natunilized. 



2. SAPONARIA, SOAPWORT. (Latin and common names from 

 the mucilaginous juice of the stem and root forming a lather.) From 

 Eu. (Les.sons, Fig. 248.) 



