32 Caryophyllaceae 



nodes, with opposite entire leaves and perfect 

 or rarely dioecious regular flowers; sepals 

 4 or 5 persistent, separated or united into 

 a calyx-tube; petals equal in number to the 

 sepals or none; stamens twice as many as 

 the sepals or fewer. 



Sepals united; petals long clawed. 

 Calyx lo-many nerved. 



Styles 3 ; capsule with 3 or 6 teeth. Silene. 



Styles 5; capsule with 5 or 10 teeth. Lychnis. 



Sepals free to the base or nearly so. 

 Petals two cleft or rarely none. 



Capsule cylindric, usually curved. Cerastium. 



Capsule ovate or oblong, not curved. Alsine. 



Petals entire or notched, rarely none. 



Styles as many as the sepals and alternate with 

 them. Sagina. 



Styles fewer than the sepals. 



Seeds appendaged. Mcehringia. 



Seeds not appendaged. Arenaria. 



Silene Closely tufted, an inch or two 



acaulis L. high, forming cushion-like beds, 

 Moss often 2 feet or more across. 



Campion. Leaves sessile, crowded, linear, 

 | an inch or less long, the margins ciliate. 

 Flowers J of an inch or more across, nearly 



