VOL. II.] 



PINK FAMILY. 



5. Lychnis Drummondi (Hook.) 

 S. Wats. Drummond's Pink. 



(Fig. 1459.) 



Silene Drummondi Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 89. 

 1830. 



Lychnis Drummondi S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 

 1871. 



Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- 

 ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent 

 and viscid, i-3 high. Leaves oblanceolate 

 or linear, acute, narrowed into a margined peti- 

 ole or the upper sessile, T-'-^/t' long; flowers 

 few, slender-pedicelled, white or purplish, 6"- 

 lo" long; petals scarcely longer than the tu- 

 bular calyx, entire or emarginate at the apex, 

 narrower than the auricled claw; capsule ob- 

 long-cylindric, 6" -8" long; seeds tuberculate. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Manitoba, west to Cali- 

 fornia and Oregon. June-July. 



6. Lychnis apetala L. Nodding Lychnis, 

 (Fig. 1460.) 



Lychnis apetala L. Sp. PI. 437. 1753. 



Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3'-8' high, 

 glandular-pubescent at least above. Stems i-flow- 

 ered; leaves linear or oblanceolate, %'-2%' long, 

 j//_y/ w j(j e) sessile, or the lower narrowed into a 

 petiole; flower nodding, 6"-S // long; petals narrow,. 

 2-cleft, included in the calyx; calyx inflated, strongly 

 purple-veined, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute; petals 

 narrow, about i // wide, minutely appeudaged, equal- 

 ling or shorter than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; cap- 

 sule erect, ovoid, 4" in diameter. 



Labrador and throughout arctic America. Also in arc- 

 tic and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer. 



7. Lychnis affinis Vahl. Arctic Lychnis. 

 (Fig. 1461.) 



Lychnis affinis Vahl, in Fries, Mant. 3: 36. 1843. 



Tufted, arctic, perennial, erect, 2 r -4' high, glandular-pubes- 

 cent throughout. Basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, about y^' long, 

 ciliate; stem-leaves linear, %'-i f long, obtuse, sessile, or nar- 

 rowed into a short broad petiole; flower erect, 4 // -6 // long; calyx 

 oblong or ovate-campanulate, slightly inflated, its teeth short, 

 acute; petals somewhat exserted, the blade narrowed below, 

 emarginate and eroded, the appendages minute. 



Labrador and arctic America and Europe. Summer. 



