52 OIIDER 19. CARYOPHYLLACE^E. 



ORDER XIX. CARYOPHYLLACE^. PINKWORTS. 

 Herbs with swollen joints, opposite, entire leaves, and regular V (rarely 

 V) riowers. Sepah persistent. Petals often unguiculate, or bifid, or 0. 

 Stamens distinct, twice as many as the sepals, or fewer. Torus often some 

 developed, separating the whorls. Styles 2 5, ovary 1. Fruit a 1-5-celled, 

 1 - ao-seeded pod. opening by teeth or valves. Embryo curved around the 

 albumen. Figs. 6, 41, 44, 45, 56, 131, 276, 330, 456. 



Stipules present, dry (0 in No. 17). Calyx open. Petals sessile, minute, or 0. TRIBK III... (A) 

 1 Stipules!). <i Calyx a tube including the long claws of the petals. Pod 00-seeded. TRIBK!.. <r) 

 < Calyx open. Petals sessile (rarely in No. 10). Pod 3 - 00 -seeded. TRIBE II. ..(e) 



a Calyx open, white. Petals 0. Styles 3. Pod 3-celled. TRIBK IV... MOLLITGO. IS 



1. SILENEjE. c Calyx with scale-like bractletg at base. Styles 2 DIANTHUS. 1 



c Calyx bractless. <i Styles 2 SAPONARIA, 2, or GYPSOPHILA, 2J 



d Styles 3. Pod 6-toothed when open SILBKK. 3 



<l Styles 5. Pod ID-toothed or 5- valved LYCHNIS. 1 



It. AL8INEJS. e Petals erose-denticulate at the end. Styles 3 HOLOSTEUM. S 



t Petals 2-parted (sometimes wanting In No. 7'...(/) 



/ Styles 5. Capsule opening at the top by 10 teeth CKRASTICM. 6 



/ Styles 3. Capsule opening to the base by naif-valves STKLLARIA. 7 



Petals entire (often wanting in No. 10).. (0) 



g Styles 3, or if 5, opposite to the sepals. (No. 7 or) ARK.IAKIA. 8 



H Sty.es 1, opposite to the 4 sepals. Stamens 4 MIEXCHIA. 9 



<j Styles 4 or 5, and alternate with the sepals SAGINA. M 



111. ILLECEBRE^E. A Styles or stigmas 3 6. Pod several-seeded. Pet. colored... (fc) 



k Leaves opposite. I Flowers axillary, solitary SPERGITI.AHTA. II 



/ Flowers in terminal clusters STIPULICIOA. 12 



k Leaves whorled. m Styles 5. pod 5-valved. SPKRGULA. 13 



m Styles 3, pod 3-valved. POLYCARPON. 1 1 



A Styles or stigmas 2 or 1. Utricle 1-seeded. . .(n) 



H Sepals distinct or nearly so. greenish PARONYCHIA. l.i 



ii Sepals united into a tube below, white above SYPHONYCHIA. 1C 



ii Sepnis united into an urn liel'tw. green above SCLEKANTHI'S 17 



1. DIANTHUS, L. PINK. Calyx tube cylindrical, striated, with 2 or 

 more pairs of imbricated scales or bracteoles at base. Pet. 5, with long 

 claws, limb irregularly notched. Stam. 10, styles 2, recurved. Capsule 

 cylindrical, 1-celled, 4-valved at top. Beautiful Oriental plants, every- 

 where cultivated. Figs. 6, 131, 276. 



Bracts long-pointed, equalling the calyx tube (dry, obtuse, No. 2) Nos. 1 4 



Bracts much shorter than the calyx tube Nos. 51 



1 D. Armerla L. Wild Pink. Leaves linear-subulate, hairy ; flowers aggregated. 



fascicled ; bracteoles erect, lance-subulate. (I) Sandy fields, E. 1 2f. Flo\ven 

 tniall (6" broad), pink-red sprinkled with white. August. Europe. 



2 1>. prolifer L. Slender, strict, smooth; Ivs. linear, erect, 12' ; bracts dry, ovate. 



covering the calyx and pod : pet. small, pink ; fl. mostly but 1. Peun. (Porter). Enr. 



3 D. BAUBATUS. Sweet- William, or Bunch, P. Leaves lanceolate : flowers in dense 



cymes ; bracteoles erect, ovate-subulate, if Europe. Hf. Red-white. May Jn!y. 



4 D. CHINENSIS. Leaves lance-linear: flowers solitary: baicteoles spreading, linear. 



f) China. If. Evergreen, not glaucous. . Flowers largt- . variegated. 



5 1>. CAKTOPHTLLUS. Carnation P. Glaucous; leaves linear: flowers solitary ; bract- 



lets very short, ovate ; petals very broad, crenate. K England. 2 3f. Fragrant. 



6 D. FI.TJMARIDS. Pheasant's Eye. Glaucous; flowers solitary; bracts ovate, acute; 



petals many-cleft, hairy at throat. V. Europe. White-purple. June August. 



7 J>. SUPEUBUS. Leaves linear-subulate, green ; cymes lastigiate ; bracts ovate, inn 



cr<)iiate ; petals )iinnanrul-fi-iii_'i-(l. U Kurope. WhH.'-ni-caie. -Inly, August. 



