A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



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cluster, often i8 in. high. Petals 5, very small, lavender- 

 purple. In salt meadows. Labrador to Florida and Texas. 

 August. Fig. 523. 



524. Wild Pink. Silcnc caroliniana. (Caryophylla^cae.) A 

 plant of dry sandy places, sticky-hairy in all its parts. Leaves 

 mostly basal, but a few on the stem, toothless, about 3 in. 

 long, usually broadest towards the tip. Flowers pink, almost 

 I in. wide, in ft terminal cluster. Petals 5, decidedly cut or 

 toothed at the tip. Fruit a much enlarged dry pod. Maine 

 to Kentucky, and westward. May. Fig. 524. See also Nos. 

 421-424. 



525. Sleepy Catch fly. Silcne antirrhina. (Caryophylla- 

 ccac.) Somewhat resembling No. 524, but smaller, and the 

 pink flowers about j^i the size. In woods and in waste places. 

 Maine to Florida, and westward. Not as common as No. 

 524, and not sticky. August. A related plant, 5. Armcria, has 

 larger flowers than No. 525, but not ag large as No. 524, 

 and occasionally escapes from gardens. See Nos. 421-424. 



