PINK FAMILY. Caryophyllacex. 



Ragged Robin 

 or Cuckoo 

 Flower 

 Lychnis Flos- 

 cucuU 

 Pink or 

 crimson 

 June- 

 September 



A slender perennial, also adventive 

 from Europe, found in old gardens. The 

 plant is downy below, and slightly stickj^ 

 above, tlie leaves slender lance-shaped 

 above, and few, but blunt lance-shaped be- 

 low. The pink, or crimson, or light violet 

 petals of the ragged-looking flowers are 

 deeph' cut into four lobes each, the t.wo 

 lateral lobes very small. Fertilized in 

 great measure by bees and butterflies, the bumblebee, 

 perhaps, the most frequent visitor. 1-2 feet high. Com- 

 mon in wet and waste ground, from ]Me., south to N. J., 

 and southwest to Penn. 



A tiny annual widely branched and 

 rough-downy, naturalized from Europe : 

 with small ovate leaves and miniature 

 white flowers, the sepals of which are 

 rather long, and rough. 2-8 inches high. 

 Common in dry sandy places everywhere. 

 Another similar tinj^ dainty plant, but 

 with arctic proclivities, having much 

 larger flowers with translucent white 

 petals notched at the tip. The crowding 

 leaves are linear and threadlike, the plant 

 grows in a dense tuft from the root, in 

 crevices of rocks. 2-5 inches high. On 

 Mt. Washington and the higher peaks of 

 Va., and N. Car. Also on river banks at 

 Bath, Me., and on Mt. Desert Island, and near Middle- 

 town, Conn. On Mt. Washington, where it is called 

 the " Mountain Daisy," it snuggles close to the rocks in 

 sheltered situations, but holds its own, almost, if not 

 quite alone, on the highest points of the bleak Presi- 

 dential range, from 5000 to 6290 feet above tide- water, 

 where snow lasts during eight months of the year. 



Thyme=Ieaved 

 Sandwort 



Arenaria 

 serphylli folia 

 White 

 May-August 



Mountain 



Sandwort or 



Mountain 



Daisy 



Arenai'ia 



Groenlandica 



White 



June-August 



N. Y., Penn., 



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