50 FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE RIVIERA 



Tribe II. ALSINE^E. Sepals separate at base. Disk small. Styles free. 

 * Stipules scarious. 



Styles and valves of capsule 5 SPERGULA. 



Styles and valves of capsule 3 : SPERGULARIA. 



** Stipules o. 



Capsule cylindric, 6 valved. Petals jagged. Styles 3 HOLOSTEUM. 



Capsule cylindric, 8-10 valved. Petals usually notched. Styles 3. CERASTIUM. 



Capsule globose, 6-10 valved. Petals 2 fid. Styles 3-5 STELLARIA. 



Capsule with 6 entire or 3 bifid valves. Petals entire. Styles 3, rarely 2, 



4, 5 ARENARIA. 



Capsule with 3 entire valves. Styles 3 ALSINE. 



Capsule 4 valved. Seeds numerous. Sepals with i or no nerve. MCEHRINGIA. 

 Capsule 2 valved. Seeds 1-3. Petals 4. Calyx 4 partite, scarious. Sepals 3-5 



nerved BUFFONIA. 



Capsule with 4-5 entire valves. Petals 4-5 or often o SAGINA. 



Tribe III. POLYCARPE^. Stipules scarious Sepals separate. Disk and 

 petals small or o. Stamens 5 or less. Styles connate at base. POLYCARPON. 



Tribe IV. PAKONYCHI^E. Stipules scarious. Sepals distinct or connate. 



Petals small or o. Ovary i celled ; styles 2-3 ; ovules 1-2. 

 Leaves connate. Capsule indehiscent, i-seeded. Petals o. Stipules o. 



SCLERANTHUS. 



Leaves alternate. Petals 5. Stigmas 3 CORRIGIOLA. 



Leaves when opposite not connate. Sepals green, obtuse HERNIARIA. 



Leaves opposite. Bracts silvery. Styles 2 PARONYCHIA. 



Leaves alternate, fleshy. Capsule 3-4 valved, trigonous, many seeded. 

 Styles 3 TELEPHIUM. 



LYCHNIS L. 



L. Githago Scop. = Agrpstemma QithagO L. Corn Lychnis. An 

 annual silky plant, 2-3 feet high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute. Flowers 

 reddish-purple, large, solitary. Petals truncate. Calyx with linear divisions 

 longer than the petals. 



In the crops. April-June. 



L. Flos-Cuculi L. Ragged-robin. Flowers linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 in dichotomous cymes. Plant slightly viscous at the top. Calyx usually reddish, 

 10 nerved. Petals rosy, 4 cleft with linear segments. Root-leaves petioled, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; stem-leaves narrow. 



Damp meadows. April- June. 



L. Viscaria L. Viscid Lychnis. Leaves lanceolate, glabrous, but often 

 ciliate at base. Stem very viscous in upper part below the joints. Petals obovate, 

 slightly emarginate, purplish-red. Scales short. Calyx reddish. Flowers in 

 contracted cymes or panicles. 



Dry places among the lower mountains in Alpes-Marit. May-June. 



L. diurna Sibth. Red Campion. Lower leaves obovate petioled, upper 

 narrower, softly hairy, slightly viscid above. Flowers red, in loose dichotomous 

 cymes, lobes oblong, scales lanceolate. Calyx reddish, rarely green. Capsule 

 wide-mouthed, pedicel very short. 



Lower mountain region of Alpes-Marit., local. May, June. 



L. vespertina Sibth. White Campion. Leaves lanceolate, pubescent, 

 more or less viscid. Calyx greenish, teeth triangular. Flowers white, open and 

 fragrant in the evening. Capsule conical, teeth short, linear-lanceolate, erect. 

 Similar to the last except in colour. 



Fields and waste places. April-July. 



L. macrocarpa Boiss. A more robust and glandular plant than the last, 

 3 ft. high, with broader leaves, similar white or pinkish flowers, scented in the 

 evening, but with calyx teeth lanceolate-acute (not triangular obtuse), and the 10 

 teeth of the capsule are reflexed and not erect. 



