88 CARYOPHYLLACE^E. (PINK FAMILY.) 



scale-like stipules (except in Scleranthus), the uppermost sometimes alternate. Flowers 

 mostly small. 



* Pod (capsule) many-seeded. Styles 3-5. Petals usually conspicuous. 



11. Spergularla. Styles .3 -5. Leaves opposite. 



12. Spergula. Styles 5. Valves of the pod opposite the sepals. Leaves whorled. 



* * Pod (utricle) 1-seeded. Styles 2, often united. Petals none or minute. 



13. Any cliia. Stamens on the base of the 5-parted awnless calyx. Style hardly any. 



14. Paronychia. Stamens on the base of the 5-parted calyx ; the sepals bristle-pointed. 



Style 1, two-cleft at the top. 



15. Scleraiitlius. Stamens borne on the throat of the indurated 5-cleft and pointless calyx. 



Styles 2. Stipules none. 



Tribe IV. MOLIAJGINEJE. Stamens alternate with the sepals when of the same 

 number, when fewer alternate with the cells of the 3-celled ovary. Partitions of the pod 

 persistent on the valves. Leaves not truly opposite, otherwise as in Tribe II. 



16. Mollugo. Petals none. Stamens 3 -5. Stigmas 3. Pod many-seeded. 



1. DIANTHUS, L. PINK. CARNATION. 



Calyx cylindrical, nerved or striate, 5-toothed, subtended by 2 or more imbri- 

 cated bractlets. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod 1 -celled, 4-valved at the apex. 

 Seeds flattish on the back : embryo scarcely curved. Ornamental plants, of 

 well-known aspect and value in cultivation. (Name from Aids, of Jupiter, and 

 avQos, flower, i. e. Jove's own flower.) Two insignificant annual species are 

 rarely spontaneous. 



1. D. ARMERIA, L. (DEPTFORD PINK.) Flowers in close clusters ; bract- 

 lets of the calyx and bracts lance-awl-form, herbaceous, downy, as long as the 

 tube ; leaves linear, hairy ; petals small, rose-color with white dots, crenate. 

 Fields, &c., Virginia to E. Massachusetts. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. D. PR6LIFER, L. (PROLIFEROUS PINK.) Smooth, slender; flowers 

 clustered ; bractlets ovate, dry, concealing the calyx ; leaves few, narrow, linear, 

 erect; petals small, pink. Near Philadelphia, C. E. Smith. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. SAPONARIA, L. SOAPWORT. 



Calyx tubular, terete, nerveless, 5-toothed, naked at the base. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 2. Pod short-stalked, 1 -celled, or partly 2-celled at the base, 4-toothed 

 at the apex. Flowers clustered. (Name from sapo, soap, the mucilaginous 

 juice forming a lather with water.) 



1. S. OFFICINALIS, L. (COMMON SOAPWORT. BOUNCING BET.) Clus- 

 ters corymbed; petals crowned with an appendage at the top of the claw; 

 leaves oval-lanceolate. Roadsides, &c. July - Sept. A stout perennial, 

 with large rose-colored flowers, commonly double. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. VACCARIA, Medik. COW-HERB. 



Calyx naked at the base, ovoid-pyramidal, 5-angled, 5-toothed, enlarged and 

 wing-angled in fruit. Petals not crowned. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod in- 

 completely 4-celled at the base. A smooth annual, with pale red flowers in 

 corymbed cymes, and ovate-lanceolate leaves. (Name from vacca, a cow.) 



1. V. VULGA.RIS, Host. (Saponaria Vaccaria, L.) Escaped from gardens 

 and becoming spontaneous in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



