PINK FAMILY. CaryopbyUaceae. 



ficant. 10-25 inches high. Common in waste places 

 everywhere. 



Like the bladder campion ; a foreign 



s P ecies with a beautifully marked calyx 

 Silene nocti- resembling spun glass, but smaller, the 

 flora petals similar. The plant is hairy-sticky, 



White the leaves blunt lance-shaped. The white 



u y ~ flowers are delicately fragrant, and open 



only at dusk, closing on the following 

 morning. Probably it is exclusively fertilized by moths, 

 as many such visitors may be seen sipping at the newly 

 opened blossoms in the early evening. 1-3 feet high. 

 Common in waste places everywhere. Found in Camp- 

 ton, N. H. 



A charming plant naturalized from the 

 Evening Lych= ... .^ i /= i - 



nis or White ^ country, with densely fine-hairy, 



Campion ovate-lance-shaped leaves and stem, both 



Lychnis alba dark green ; the leaves opposite. The 

 Wnite sweet-scented flowers are white, closely 



resembling those of Silene noctiflora ; in 

 Lychnis, however, the flower has five styles, in Silene, 

 three. Both species open their blossoms toward evening 

 and close them during the following morning. The 

 white petals are deeply cleft and crowned at the base 

 with miniature petallike divisions. The calyx is in- 

 flated, and often stained maroon-crimson along the ribs, 

 which are sticky -hairy ; after becoming still more in- 

 flated it withers and leaves exposed the vase-shaped 

 light brown seed-vessel, pinked at the small opening 

 above. 1-2 feet high. In waste places and borders of 

 fields, from Me. to N. J. and N. Y. Probably farther 

 west. Found at Phillip's Beach, Marblehead, Mass. 



A densely hairy straight-branched an- 

 Corn Cockle J , 



Agrostemma nual, adventive from Europe, and found 



Githago mostly in grain fields. The magenta flow- 



Magenta ers> no t brilliant, but broad and showy, 



~ . with very long linear sepals much ex- 



ceeding the petals in length. Fertilized 

 by butterflies and moths. 1-3 feet high. Common or 

 occasional throughout the country, Reported in Neb- 

 ( Webber). 



