HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers, in loose panicles. Stem, erect, sticky above, i to 2 

 feet high. Lower leaves, 1 to 3 inches long, narrow, petioled; 

 upper, small, bract-like. 



Wet soil, in waste places, New Jersey and northward. 

 Sometimes cultivated. 



Red Campion 



L. dioica. — Color, red, rarely white. This is a day species. 

 Calyx, at first tubular, becomes swollen and round in fruit. Petals, 

 2 -cleft. Leaves, below, with long petioles, broad at apex, but 

 pointed, 2 to 3 inches long; those on stem sessile, rather wide, 

 all with the petioles very hairy and sticky. Flowers, in panicled 

 cymes, opening in the morning. 



Found in cultivated ground or in waste places in New 

 England and the Middle States. Not common enough to 

 be called a weed, yet following the cultivator. 



Corn Cockle 



Agrostemma Githkgo Family, Pink. Color, deep crimson, 



spotted with black. Calyx of 5 long, slender, leaf-like divisions, 

 longer than the corolla. Petals, 5, broad. Stamens, 10. Pistil, 

 1. Styles, 5. 1 to 3 feet high. Leaves, long and narrow. 



In England this attendant upon wheat-fields is considered 

 a nuisance. If its black seeds become mingled with the 

 wheat grains to any extent, they are unwholesome. But 

 the flower, although established here, is not yet common 

 enough to be accounted troublesome. The plant is softly- 

 hairy, rather plebeian-looking, but, on account of its bright 

 color, finds favor. 



Sleepy Catchfly 



Silene antirrhma — Family, Pink. Color, rose. Calyx, 5-toothed, 

 veined, becoming swollen with the expanding pod. Petals, 5, 

 stalked or clawed, deeply notched, making them inversely heart- 

 shaped, each with a scale-like growth at the base of the blade. 

 Stamens, 10. Styles, 3. Flowers, in panicles, small, opening only 

 for a little time in sunshine. Stem, slender, with swollen, sticky, 

 somewhat glutinous joints, 10 to 30 inches high. Leaves, oppo- 

 site, sessile above, long, narrow; those near the root with short 

 petioles, sometimes hairy. June to September. 



Dry soil in open woods or waste places, New England 

 to Florida and Mexico. Found over 3,000 feet high in 

 Virginia. 



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