76 PINK FAMILY. 



# * * Flowers smaller, scattered or in loose clusters. 

 t- Petal limb slightly notched. 



L. corondria, Lam. MULLEIN LYCHNIS, DUSTY MILLER or MULLEIN 

 PINK. Cult, in gardens ; the flower crimson and like that of CORN 

 COCKLE ; teeth of the calyx short and slender ; plant white-cottony ; leaves 

 oval or oblong. (2) 11 



+- *- Petal limb cleft into ^-linear lobes. 



L. Flos-cuculi, Linn. CUCKOO L. RAGGED ROBIN is the double-flowered 

 variety, in gardens. Slightly downy and glutinous, with lanceolate leaves, 

 and an open panicle of pink-red flowers. 



+--- Petal limb 2-cleft. 



L. diurna, Sibth. DAY-BLOOMING L. Double-flowered form also called 

 RAGGED ROBIN in the gardens ; smoothish or soft-hairy, slightly sticky ; 

 leaves oblong or lance-ovate, the upper ones pointed ; flowers scattered 

 or somewhat clustered on the branches, rose-red or white, opening in 

 morning. 



L. vespertlna, Sibth. EVENING-BLOOMING L. Sticky pubescent ; calyx 

 ovate, enlarging ; the flowers commonly dioecious, white, and open after 

 sunset ; the root biennial. But a full, double, day-flowering perennial 

 variety in gardens, is a white sort of RAGGED ROBIN. A weed in some 

 waste grounds, (g) 



5. SILENE, CATCHFLY. (Greek, saliva; both names refer to the 

 sticky exudation on stems and calyx of several species, by which small 

 insects are often caught.) Flowers mostly all summer. (Lessons, 

 Figs. 259, 356.) 



* Calyx inflated or bladdery; petals rather small, white, crownless or 



nearly so ; not sticky. 2/ 



S. stellata, Ait. STARRY CAMPION. Smooth ; stem slender, 2-3 

 high ; leaves in whorls of 4, lance-ovate, pointed ; flowers in a long and 

 loose panicle ; petals cut into a fringe. Wild on wooded banks. 



S. Cucubalus, Wibel. (or S. INFL\TA). BLADDER CAMPION. Glaucous 

 or pale and very smooth, 1 high ; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, oppo- 

 site ; flowers loosely cymose ; the bladdery calyx veiny ; petals 2-cleft. 

 Nat. from Eu. , N. Eng. to HI. 



* * Calyx inflated; sticky pubescent; petals red or white, crowned. 



S. pendula, Linn. Whole plant reddish. Leaves oval-lanceolate, op- 

 posite ; calyx obovate, purplish, the nerves darker ; petals deeply notched. 

 Cult, from S. Eu. 



* * * Calyx not inflated, oblong, tubular, or club-shaped; somewhat sticky 



pubescent ; wild species with crowned pink or red petals. 1L 



S. Fennsylvcinica, Michx. PENNSYLVANIAN C. or WILD PINK. Stems 

 4'-8' high, bearing 2 or 3 pairs of lanceolate leaves and a cluster of short- 

 stalked middle-sized flowers in spring; petals pink-red, wedge-shaped, 

 slightly notched. Gravelly soil. N. Eng. to Ky. and S. 



S. Virglnica, Linn. VIRGINIAN C. or FIRE PINK. l-2 high ; leaves 

 spatulate or lanceolate ; flowers few, peduncled ; the pretty, large, bright, 

 crimson-red petals 2-cleft. Open woods W. and S. 



S. r&gia, Sims. ROYAL C. Like the last, but 3 high, with lance- 

 ovate leaves, numerous short-peduncled flowers in a narrow panicle, and 

 narrower, scarlet-red petals, scarcely cleft. Prairies, etc., Ohio to Mo. 

 and S. 



