PINK FAMILY. Caryophyllaceae. 



The lance-shaped leaves and the stem 

 Campion ^^® fine-hairy ; the former in distinct 



Silene stellata clusters of four. The flowers are white, 

 White arranged in a loose terminal spike, star- 



June-August shaped and fringed-edged, the stamens 

 very long. A beautiful and delicate wild flower fre- 

 quently visited by Colias pliilodice, the small yellow 

 butterfly, and many moths. 2-3 feet high. Common in 

 wooded slopes, from R. I., south to S. Car., and west to 

 Minn. 



,,,..^„. . A very low species with a somewhat 



Wild Pink . , , . , . . T , , 



Silene Pennstjl- sticky-hairy character immediately be- 



vanica neath the flowers, most of the blunt 



Crimson-pink lance-shaped leaves clustered at the base ; 

 May June the upper leaves small. The crimson-pink 



flowers with somewhat wedge-shaped petals. The calyx 

 tubular and adapted to the tongues of butterflies and 

 moths, by which the flower is cross-fertilized. 4-9 

 inches high. Me., south to Ga., west to southern N. Y., 

 Penn., and Ky. 



A delicately beautiful, foreign, perennial 

 Camnion species which has become naturalized in 



Silene Cucu- this country. The deep green leaves are 

 balun smooth and ovate-lance-shaped. Theflow- 



W''*® ers are white with the five petals deeply 



une- ugus two-lobed ; the pale green flower-cup is 

 greatly inflated, almost globular in shape, and beauti- 

 fully veined with green markings not unlike those of a 

 citron melon. The ten anthers (on long stamens) are 

 sepia brown when mature. 8-18 inches high. In mead- 

 ows and moist hollows beside the road. Me., south to 

 N. J., west to 111. 



A homely but curious annual species 

 C T h^i whose small flowers open only for a short 



Silene Antir- time in sunshine. The joints of the stem 

 rhina are glutinous (hence the common name), 



^•"•* and evidently prevent any stealing of the 



^""f~ ^ nectar bv creeping insects (such as ants) 



September , • , "^ / ,, • m 



which are useless as pollen carriers. The 



flower-calyx is ovoid with the pink petals above insigni- 



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