72 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



homogeneous roundish pith ; rounded alternate superposed few- 

 scaled small buds encircled by the leaf-scar ; U-shaped leaf- 

 scars with 3 bundle-traces ; no stipule-scars ; simple large cor- 

 date leaves ; axillary perfect pipe-shaped apetalous epigynous 

 flowers, green with brown or lurid throat ; and rather large 

 hanging basket-like capsules with fiat seeds. 



Glabrate : flower with smooth segments. A. macrophylla. 



Velvety : flower with rugose segments. A. tomentosa. 



Family CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Pink Family. 

 A rather large family of herbaceous plants much used in 

 flower-gardening and including the "carnation" of florists : the 

 following and some other dense-growing species occasionally ' 

 employed in rock-gardens. 



SILENE. Moss Campion. 



Mostly perennial herbs with opposite sessile leaves ; no 

 stipules ; mostly perfect "pink"-like polypetalous flowers with 3 

 carpels; and i- or partly 3-celled many-seeded capsules dehisc- 

 ing at the top. 

 Low, matted, with crowded linear leaves. S. acatilis. 



Family CERCIDIPHYLLACEAE. 



An Asiatic family including only the following genus with 

 a single species, forming an attractive small tree. Sometimes 

 merged in the Trochodendraceae. 



CERCIDIPHYLLUM. 



Deciduous trees with slender twigs widened at the nodes ; 

 close-grained wood with minute diffused ducts and fine medul- 

 lary rays ; somewhat angular continuous small pith ; opposite or 

 obliquely opposite raised half-elliptical or somewhat 3-lobed leaf- 

 scars with 3 bundle-traces ; no stipule-scars ; appressed oblong 

 sessile buds with i or 2 exposed scales ; palmately nerved 

 petioled rather crenate round-cordate leaves ; small dioecious 

 apetalous solitary flowers ; and oblong many-seeded capsules. 

 Leaves glabrous. C. japonicum. 



Leaves somewhat pubescent beneath. C. japonicum sinense. 



