CARYOPHYLLACE^ 321 



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

 Bpurry. 



A. Flowers polypetalous, with sepals united into a tube. 



B. Bracts at tlie base of tbe calyx 1. Dianthus 



BB. No bracts at base of calyx. 



c. Styles 2 2. Saponaria 



CO. Styles 4 to 5 3. Lychnis 



ccc. Styles 3 4. Silene 



AA. Flowers often apetalous, the sepals nearly or quite distinct. 



B. Styles 3 or 4 5. ShUaria 



BB. Stjies 5 6. Cerastium 



1. DIANTHUS. Pink. 



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

 sepal-like bracts at its base: petals with slender claws or bases, the limb 

 usuafly toothed or fringed : styles 2. 



a. Flowers single on ends of branches. 



D. Chin^nsis, Linn. China or florists' pink. Leaves short-lanceolate, 

 not Rrass-like: calyx-bracts linear-acute and as long as the calyx: petals in 

 white and shades of red, very showy. China. Perennial, but grown as an 

 annual (mostly under the florists' name D. Heddewigi). 



D. plum^rius, Linn. Grass or Scotch pink. Common pink 

 of old gardens, from Europe. Low, growing in mats, glau- 

 cous-blue : leaves grass-like : flowers very fragrant, deep- 

 fringed, white or pink. Perennial. 



D. Caryophyllus, Linn. Carnation. Two ft. or more, with 

 wiry stems, glaucous-blue : leaves grass like: calyx-bracts 

 short and broad : petals more or less toothed but not fringed : 

 flowers fragrant. Europe. 



aa. Flowers in compact clusters. 



D. barbitus, Linn. Sweet William. Fig. 456. One ft. /^-::^-^Z 



or more, erect, green: flowers small, in dense clusters in red /^" 



and white. Old World: common in old gardens. .-„ V. 



" 4o6. Diantlms 



2. SAPONARIA. SOAPWORT. barbatus. 



Calyx cylindrical or angled, 5-toothed, with no bracts at its base: 

 stamens i^: styles 2: pod 4-toothed at top (Fig. 250). 



S. oHicin&.lis, Linn. Bouncing Bet. Perennial, forming colonies in old 

 yards and along roads, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, with ovate or oval leaves: 

 flowers 1 in. across, white or rose, in dense clusters, often double, the 

 petals with a crown. Europe. Common. 



3. Lt'CHNIS. Lychnis. Cockle. 



Annual or perennial, with styles usually 5, and pod opening by 5 or more 

 teeth: calyx 5-toothed and 10- or more-nerved, naked at the base: stamens 10. 



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