PINK FAMILY. Caryophyllaceae. 



Ragged Robin 

 or Cuckoo 

 Flower 

 Lychnis Flos- 

 cuculi 

 Pink or 

 crimson 

 June- 

 September 



A slender perennial, also adventive 

 from Europe, found in old gardens. The 

 plant is downy below, and slightly sticky 

 above, the leaves slender lance-shaped 

 above, and few, but blunt lance-shaped be- 

 low. The pink, or crimson, or light violet 

 petals of the ragged-looking flowers are 

 deeply cut into four lobes each, the two 

 lateral lobes very small. Fertilized in 

 great measure by bees and butterflies, the bumblebee, 

 perhaps, the most frequent visitor. 1-2 feet high. Com- 

 mon in wet and waste ground, from Me., south to N. J., 

 and southwest to Penn. 



A tiny annual widely branched and 

 rough-downy, naturalized from Europe ; 

 with small ovate leaves and miniature 

 white flowers, the sepals of which are 

 rather long, and rough. 2-8 inches high. 

 Common in dry sandy places everywhere. 

 Another similar tiny, dainty plant, but 

 with arctic proclivities, having much 

 larger flowers with translucent white 

 petals notched at the tip. The crowding 

 leaves are linear and threadlike, the plant 

 grows in a dense tuft from the root, in 

 crevices of rocks. 2-5 inches high. On 

 Mt. Washington and the higher peaks of 

 N. Y., Penn., Va., and N. Car. Also on river banks at 

 Bath, Me., and on Mt. Desert Island, and near Middle- 

 town, Conn. On Mt. Washington, where it is called 

 the " Mountain Daisy," it snuggles close to the rocks in 

 sheltered situations, but holds its own, almost, if not 

 quite alone, on the highest points of the bleak Presi- 

 dential range, from 5000 to 6290 feet above tide- water, 

 where snow lasts during eight months of the year. 



A seaboard species growing in dry 

 sand. Branches nearly bare, and with few 

 dainty white flowers about J inch broad. 

 The tiny awl-shaped lower leaves densely 

 overlapping. 4-9 inches high. N. Y., N. J., 

 south. 



Thyme=Ieaved 

 Sandwort 



Arenaria 

 serphyllifolia 

 White 

 May-August 



Mountain 

 Sandwort or 

 Mountain 

 Daisy 



Arenaria 

 Grcenlandica 

 White 

 June-August 



Pine-barren 

 Sandwort 



Arenaria 

 caroliniana 

 White 

 May-July 



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