. II.] 



PINK FAMILY. 



15. Silene Menziesii Hook. Menzies' 

 Pink. (Fig. 1454.) 



Silene Jfenziesii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 90. pi. jo. 

 1830. 



Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, 

 leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely 

 glandular- pubescent, 6 / -iS / high. Leaves sessile, 

 or the lowest narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate- 

 lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acute or acu- 

 minate at each end, minutely ciliate on the mar- 

 gins, i / -2^2 / long; flowers axillary and terminal, 

 numerous, slender-peduncled, white (or pink?), 

 4 // -5 // long; petals 2-cleft, crownless, longer than 

 the 5-toothed calyx; capsule about the length of the 

 calyx; seeds black, minutely tuberculate. 



In damp soil, western Nebraska to the Northwest 

 "Territory, British Columbia, California and New Mex- 

 ico. June-Aug. 



4. LYCHNIS L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. 



Herbs, mainly erect, with the aspect of Silene. Calyx ovoid, tubular, or inflated, 5- 

 toothed, jo-nerved. Petals 5, narrowly clawed, the blade entire, 2-cleft, or laciniate, gener- 

 ally crowned. Stamens 10. Ovary i-celled or incompletely several-celled at the base, 

 many-ovuled; styles 5, opposite the calyx-teeth (occasionally 4 or rarely even 3). Capsule 

 dehiscent by 10 or fewer apical teeth or valves. [From the Greek for lamp, in allusion to 

 the flame-colored flowers of some species.] 



A genus of about 35 species, natives of the north temperate and arctic zones. In addition to 

 the following about 8 others occur in the northern and western parts of North America. 



Calyx-teeth not twisted; plants pubescent, glandular or glabrate. 



Flowers cyniose or panicled; calyx enlarged by the ripening pod. 

 Fruiting calyx much enlarged, ovoid, obovoid or globose. 

 Plants viscid-pubescent; flowers usually dioecious. 

 Flowers white or pink, opening in the evening. 

 Flowers red, opening in the morning. 

 Plant roughish-pu Descent; flowers perfect, scarlet. 

 Fruiting calyx campanulas or tubular. 



Petals deeply laciniate; introduced species. 

 Petals entire or emarginate; native \yestern species. 

 Flowers solitary; calyx inflated; plants arctic-alpine. 

 Flower nodding; pod erect. 

 Flower and pod erect or nearly so. 

 Calyx-teeth twisted; plant densely white-woolly all over. 



1. L. alba. 



2. L. dioica. 



3. L. Chalcedonica. 



4. L. Flos-ciiculi. 



5. L. Drummondi. 



6. L. apetala. 



7. L. affinis. 



8. L. Coronaria. 



i. Lychnis alba Mill. White Campion. Evening Lychnis. (Fig. 1455.) 



Lychnis alba Mill. Card. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 4. 1768. 

 Lychnis vespertina Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 146. 1794. 



Biennial, viscid-pubescent, loosely and freely 

 branching, i-2 high. Leaves ovate-oblong 

 or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1'-$' long, the lower 

 tapering into a margined petiole, the upper 

 sessile; flowers few, loosely paniculate, <)' f -i2 /f 

 broad, white or pinkish, opening at dusk and 

 remaining open into the morning of the next 

 day, slightly fragrant, often dioecious; calyx at 

 first tubular, 6 // -9 // long, about 2 7/ wide, swell- 

 ing with the ripening pod so as to become ovoid 

 and 6 // ~7 // in diameter, its teeth short, lanceo- 

 late; petals obovate, 2-cleft, crowned; teeth of 

 the capsule 2-cleft, nearly erect. 



In waste places and on ballast, occasional in the 

 maritime provinces of Canada, Ontario and in 

 the Eastern and Middle States. Adventive or 

 naturalized from Europe. Summer. 



