PINK FAMILY. Caryophyliaceae, 



Night=fIower 

 Ing Catchfly 



Silene nocti- 

 flora 

 White 

 July- 

 September 



morning. 



Evening Lych 

 nis or White 

 Campion 

 Lychnis alba 

 White 

 July-October 



ficant. 10-25 inches high. Common in waste places 

 everywhere. 



Like the bladder campion ; a foreign 

 species with a beautifully marked calyx 

 resembling spun glass, but smaller, the 

 petals similar. The plant is hairy-sticky, 

 the leaves blunt lance-shaped. The white 

 flowers are delicately fragrant, and open 

 only at dusk, closing on the following 

 Probably it is exclusively fertilized by moths, 

 as many such visitors may be seen sipping at the newly 

 opened blossoms in the early evening. 1-3 feet high. 

 Common in waste places ever5^where. Found in Camp- 

 ton, N. H. 



A charming plant naturalized from the 

 old country, with densely fine-hairy, 

 ovate-lance-shaped leaves and stem, both 

 dark green ; the leaves opposite. The 

 sweet-scented flowers are white, closely 

 resembhng those of Silene noctiflora ; in 

 fact the habit and form of these two species are almost 

 identical. Both open their blossoms toward evening 

 and close them during the following morning. The 

 white petals are deeply cleft and crowned at the base 

 with miniature petallike divisions. The calyx is in- 

 flated, and often stained maroon-crimson along the ribs, 

 which are sticky-hairy ; after becoming still more in- 

 flated it withers and leaves exposed the vase-shaped 

 light brown seed-vessel, pinked at the small opening 

 above. 1-2 feet high. In waste places and borders of 

 fields, from Me. to N. J. and N. Y. Probably farther 

 west. Found at Phillip's Beach, Marblehead, Mass. 



A densely hairy straight-branched an- 

 nual, adventive from Europe, and found 

 mostly in grain fields. The magenta fiow- 

 ers, not brilliant, but broad and showy, 

 with verj'^ long linear sepals much ex- 

 ceeding the petals in length. Fertilized 

 by butterflies and moths. 1-3 feet high. Common or 

 occasional throughout the country. Reported in Neb. 

 (Webber). 



Corn Cockle 



Agrostemma 

 Githago 

 Magenta 

 July- 

 September 



