CAEYoniYLLACK/i: '.]{), 



capsule commonly inclosed in the calyx, mostly splitting from the 

 top, the seeds usually attached to a central column. Genera between 

 30 and 40, species about 1000. Representative plant- are pink, 

 carnation, bouncing Bet, catchtly, chickweed, corn-cockle, lychnis, 

 spurrey. 



a. Flow.-rs polypetalous, with sepals unite. 1 into a tube. 



b. Bract- at tie- base of the calyx 1. Dianthus 



bis. No bracts at base of calyx. 



c. Styles 2 2. Saponaria 



cc. Stj lea i "V "> ::. i.,j,h , 



ax. Flowers often apetalous, the sepals Dearly or quite distinct. 



b. Styles :: or I I. Stellaria 



bb. style- :. 5. Ci rastium 



1. DIANTHUS. Pink. 



Showy-flowered small herbs, with striate, many-furrowed calyx and 

 sepal-like bracts at it- base: petal- with Blender claws or bases, the limb 

 u-ualh toothed or fringed : styles 2. 



a. Flowers singh /' ends of branch 



D. Cbinensis, I, inn. China or fi , '. Leaves short lanceolate, 



not grass like: calyx bracts linear acute and a- long a- tin- calyx: petals in 

 white ami shades of red, very showy. China. Perennial, bul grown a- an 

 annual (mostly under the florists' name I). Beddewigi). 



D. plumarius, I, inn. Grass or Scotch pink, t'timiiimi /iinl. .* 



of old gardens, from Europe. Low, growing in mat-. ^lau < ' <' . . 

 cous blue: leaves grass like: flowers verj fragrant, deep 

 fringed, white or pink. Perennial. 



D. Caryophyllus, I. inn. Carnation. Two ft. or more, with 

 wiry -tem-, glaucous blue: lea - like: calyx bracts 



short ami broad: petals more or less toothed bul not fringed: 

 flowers fragrant. Europe. 



aa. VIouh rt in compact clu - 



D. barbatus, l.inn. Sweet William. Pig. 156. One ft. 



or more, erect, green: flowers -mall, in dense clusters in i 



aid white, i l.| World; union in o|.| gardens. , 



nihil* 



2. SAPONARIA. SOAPW. 



Calyx cylindrical or angled, 5- toothed, with no bract* at Its ' 

 stamens l": styles '_': pod l-toothed at top (Fig. 



S. officinalis, l.inn. / / ' Perennial, forming colonies In old 



yards ami along roads, l 2 ft. bigh, glabrous, with . 

 flowers 1 in. across, white or rose, In den i clu iftvn double, the 



petal- uiih a crown. Europe. Common. 



