PINK FAMILY. Caryophyllaceae. 



gtarr The lance-shaped leaves and the stem 



Campion are fine-hairy ; the former in distinct 



Silene stellata clusters of four. The flowers are white, 

 White arranged in a loose terminal spike, star- 



June-August ghaped and f r i n ged-edged, the stamens 

 very long. A beautiful and delicate wild flower fre- 

 quently visited by Colias philodice, the small yellow 

 butterfly, and many moths. 2-3 feet high. Common in 

 wooded slopes, from R. I., south to S. Car., and west to 

 Minn. 



Wild Pink ^ very low species with a somewhat 



Silene Pennsyl- sticky-hairy character immediately be- 

 vanica neath the flowers, most of the blunt 



Crimson-pink lance-shaped leaves clustered at the base ; 

 the upper leaves small. The crimson-pink 

 flowers with somewhat wedge-shaped petals. The calyx 

 tubular and adapted to the tongues of butterflies and 

 moths, by which the flower is cross-fertilized. 4-9 

 inches high. Me., south to Ga., west to southern N. "Y., 

 Penn., and Ky. 



A delicately beautiful, foreign, perennial 

 Campion species which has become naturalized in 



Silene this country. The deep green leaves are 



latifolia smooth and ovate-lance-shaped. The flow- 



ers are white with the five petals deeply 

 two-lobed ; the pale green flower-cup is 

 greatly inflated, almost globular in shape, and beauti- 

 fully veined with green markings not unlike those of a 

 citron melon. The ten anthers (on long stamens) are 

 sepia brown when mature. 8-18 inches high. In mead- 

 ows and moist hollows beside the road. Me., south to 

 N. J., west to 111. 



A homely but curious annual species 

 Catchily whose small flowers open only for a short 



Silene Antir- time in sunshine. The joints of the stem 

 rhino, are glutinous (hence the common name), 



pink and evidently prevent any stealing of the 



nectar by creeping insects (such as ants) 

 September J 



which are useless as pollen carriers. The 



flower-calyx is ovoid with the pink petals above insigni- 



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