176 THE FLORA. 



6 Styles or stiormas 3 or 5. Pod l-celled, many-seeded e 



6 Styles or stigmas 2 or united into 1. Pod 1 -seeded f 



Styles 2. Petals varicualy notched or fringed. Pinh. Dian'thus. T 



b Styles 2. Capsule 4-tootlied when open. ' Soapwort. Sapona'kia. 



b Stylos 3. Capsule 6-toothed when open. Silene. Silene. 2 



b Styles 5. Calyx 5-toothed, teeth short or long. Rose Campion. Lychnis. 3 

 Styles 5. Pod opening at top by 10 teeth. Mouse-ear. Cerastium. i 



Styles 3. Pod splitting into 6 valves. Chichweed. Starwort. Stella'ria. 



d Styles 3. Valves oftlie ripe pod 3, each 2-toothed. Sandwort. Arenv'ria. 



d Styles 3. Valves of the pod 3, entire. Grove Sandwort. Alsi'ne. 



d Styles 4 or 5, always as many as the sepals. Pearliooit. Sagi'na. 



d Styles 3 and 5. Plant fleshy. Disk 10-lobed. Sea Sandwort. B.o-hk^^'yk. 

 e Styles 5. Leaves linear, whorled. Flowers white. Spurry. Spek'gula. 



e Styles 3 and 5. Lvs. linear, opposite. Fls. red. Sand Spurry. Spergula^'ria. 

 e Styles 3 in all the fls. Leaves in 4's. Stipules ovate. Allseed. Polycar'pon. 

 e Styles 3 in all the fls. Leaves opposite. Stipules many-cleft. Stipulic'ida. 



f Sepals green, distinct or nearly so Nailwort. Paronych^ia. 



f Sepals white above, united into a tube below. Syphonych'ia. 



% Styles 2. Utricle inclosed in the hardened calyx tube. Knawell. Scleran'thus. 

 h Styles 3. Stamens 3 or 5. Herb flat on the ground. Carpet-weed. Mollu^go. 5 



1. DIAN'THUS. Pink. Carnation. 



Calyx tubular, cyliudrical, striate, with 2 or more pairs of opposite, im- 

 bricated scales at base. Petals 5, with long claws, limb unequally notched. 

 Stamens 10. Styles 2, with revolute stigmas. Capsule cylindrical, one- 

 celled. 



Tf Bracts as long as the calyx tube 1, 2, 3 



T[ Bracts much shorter than the calyx 4, 5, 6 



1 D. Arme'ria. Wild Pink. Bracts erect. Leaves linear. Flowers small, pink-red 



in cymes of about 3. Stem 18-24' high. In sandy fields. July. E. 



2 D. barbatns. Sweet William., or Buncli Pinh. Bracts erect. Leaves lanceolate, 



cymes large, many-flowered. Ked or variegated with white. May-July, -f 

 D. Chinen'sis. China Pink. Bracts spreading. Leaves lance-linear. Flowers 

 solitary, red, large. Plant evergreen, not glaucous, t 



4 D. caryophy-rius. Carnation Pink. Bracts rounded. Petals crenate, beard- 



less. Whole plant glaucous. Many beautiful varieties, t 



5 D. pluma'rius. Pheasanfs-eye. Bracts ovate. Petals fringe-toothed, bearded. 



Plant glaucous. Flowers solitary, white and purple, t 

 6. D. super''bus. Svperb P. Bracts mucronate, ovate. Petals pinnatifid fringet', 

 bearded, cymes level-topped. Wh'te. t 



