/■rntikenin. CARVOI'Il VLLACE.10 



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leaves tliickish, obovato to linoar-ohlaiicoclato, 3 to G linos long, the margin rovo- 



luto : calyx .'5 lines long, linear, very strongly furrowed, tlm lobes short and acute : 



petals exserted 1 to 1^ lines, the blade oblong, erose at the summit, the appendage 



bifid : stamens 4 to 7 : style 3-cleft : capsule linear, angle<l, shorter than the calyx : 



seeds numerous. — Linnoia, i. 35 ; Torrey, Bot. I\Iex. Jiound. 3(3, t. 5. 



Sea-shore from San Francisco to San Diego and soutlnvanl, and ea-stward in tlie desert to Ari- 

 zona and S. Nevada, 



F. Palmfri, Watson, collected by Dr. E. Talmer on tiio eastern side of bower California, is a 

 rather slender shrub, a foot high, the niinicrous fascicled leaves only I or 2 lines long, thick 

 and strongly revoluto, canescent with a white encrustation : calyx U fines long : petals linear, a 

 little exserted : .stamens 4 : stylo bifid : capsule 2-seeded. — Troc. Am. Acad. xi. 124. 



F. Jamksii, Torr. (Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 622), is a more ea.stern sjwcies, of Colorado and 

 New Mexico, with the habit of F. (jroiidifnlin, but more pubescent, leaves narrower and with 

 icvohite margins, flowers larger, and ovary 3-ovuled. 



Order XIV. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



Herbs, sometimes suirrutescent at ba.se, l)laiid and inert, witli regular and mostly 

 perfect flowers, persistent calyx, its parts and the jjctals 4 or 5 and imbricated or 

 the latter sometimes convolute in the bud, the distinct stamens commonly twice as 

 many as the petals (when of the same number alternate with them, sometimes 

 fewer), ovary 1-celled with a free central placenta, bearing many or several campylo- 

 tropous ovules; the reniform seeds with a slender embryo coiled around the outside 

 of farinaceous albumen. — Steins usually swollen at the nodes. Leaves often 

 united at the base by a transverse line, in one group with interposed scarious stip- 

 ules. Petals sometimes wanting. Stamens mostly hypogynous around an annular 

 disk, sometimes perigynous by its cohesion with the base of the calyx. Styles 2 to 

 5, mostly distinct, and with stigma running down the inner face, in the last genera 

 more or less unitod into one. Fruit a capsule opening by valves, or by teeth at the 

 summit. Flowers terminal or in the forlcs, or in cymes. 



A largo order, fonnd in every part of tlio world, but nlKinndinrr i.. tn,„„„rn.n „n,i r.igj.i regions, 



ise5, except 

 ally as Pinks, Ly.-hnis, kc. Much r 

 ipon 



Tribe I. 



A argo or. er, found ui every part of tlio world, but nlKinnding in temperate nn<l fiigi. 



tl nt rlrrr. °'u""''! Tr'"'"- ""•'" "''°"! •■'•''' ''^""•"■"' "*■ "" ""P'Tmnt prnpertie, or n.os, cxcepc 

 that many are c Itivate.I for ornament, such especially as Pinks, Ly.-hnis. kc Much more larire v 

 represented m Western North America than upon the Atlantic si.ie. ^ " 



^l:k ^^'^^'^^^^f'- /'^'^r"'« »"ited into a 4 -5-toothed or lobed calyx. Petals commonly 

 Tnic 1^,, T T ('^'•"T'll"" ^^"^ ^'«° "f t''« ^l-^'l^ ^^i^l'i". ""'•^owed below into a con^ 

 fCr,M ^,' T\ ';,"' *'" '^'"r"" ^"^^ "" ^ ^^*I'« ""'•'•^ the ovary. Styles distinct. 

 Capsule dehiscent at the summit by as many or twice as many teeth is stylL. Stipules 

 none. Flowers comparatively large. ^ 



1. SUene. Styles 3. (Lvcmni.s with 4 or .I styles, not yet foun.l in California.) 



TiunK II. AbSINI'LE. Se|,als .listinct to the base or nenrlv so. P.-tnls without crown or 

 distinct clau, inserted with the stamens on the margin ofthe hvp..gvnuus or sometimes 

 perigynous disk under the .sessile ovary, not rarely wanting or in.'onspicuous. 

 * Stipules none. 



2. Cerastiiim. Capsule cylindHc. .lehiscent with twi.e a.s mnnv e,,nal t.-P,h as stvles : potals 



J. atellaria. ( npsu le gloln^sn to oblong, with as many valves as styles i.ifid or 2parted : petnls 



l>ilid : style, .t (rarely 2. 4, or 5). opposite to as many sepaK. " 

 4. Arenana. Petals entire or wanting : styles .T (rarely 2.' 4, or r,). opposite to as many sepals : 



capsule globose to oblong, with as many valves as styles, these entire or bifid or 2-part^d. 

 J), eaglna. I etals entire or wanting : styles as many as the sepals, alternate with them and 



with the entire valves of the capsule. 



