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* * * Calyx-teeth not twisted; petals small, included or scarcely exserted. 



6. L. Drijmm6ndii (Hook.) Wats. Cinereous-puberuleiit ; stems cn-ct, al- 

 most naked above ; leaves narrow ; pedicels often loni^;, erect ; calyx ovoid-cylin- 

 dric — Dry plains, Neb. {Webber) to e. Minn. (^Sheldon), Man. and westw. 



10. SILENE L. Catchfly. Campion 



Calyx 5-toothed, 10-many-nerved, naked at the base. Stamens 10. Styles 8, 

 rarely 4. Pod 1-celled, sometimes 3-celled at least at the base, opening by :^> or 

 6 teeth at the apex. — Flowers solitary or in cymes. Petals mostly 'cnnvm'*! 

 with a scale at the base of the blade. (Name from aiaXov, saliva, from tht- vis- 

 cid exudation on the stems and calyx of many species. The English name 

 Catchfly alludes to the same peculiarity.) 



* Calyx many-ribbed ; annual. 



1. S. coNiCA L. Puberulent to tomentulose ; stems usually several (1.5-5 

 dm. high), leafy ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute ; calyx ovoid, strongly ribbed, 

 1.5 cm. long, the teeth attenuate ; petals small, purple or pink. — Waste places, 

 casual, Dartmouth, Mass. (Hervey) ; "Clyde, O." (Adv. from Eu.) 



* * Calyx 5-lO-nerved, not inflated except by the enlarging pod ; annuals. 



•*- Glabrous, a portion of each joint of the stem glutinous; flowers not racemose. 



2. S. antirrhina L. (Sleepy Catchfly.) Stem slender (2-0 dm. high) ; 

 leaves lanceolate or linear; flowers small, paniculate; calyx ovoid; petals ob- 

 cordate, crowned, opening transiently in sunshine. — Dry soil ; common in waste 

 places and open woods, centr. Me., westw. and southw. June-Sept. 



Var. divaricata Robinson. Still more slender, the filiform branches nnd 

 peduncles usually spreading ; petals none. — Dry woods, Mass. to 111., Mo., and 

 Kan. 



3. S. ARMifcRiA L. (Sweet William Catchfly.) Glaucous; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate ; flowers in flat cymes, open in sunshine; calyx club-shaped; peial.s 

 rose-colored or white, notched, crowned with awl-shaped scales. — Escaped 

 from gardens. (Adv. from Eu.) 



-*- -*- Pubescent and more or less viscid; flowers racemose ; pedicels short. 



4. S. gAllioa L. Leaves spatulate, obtuse, nuicronate (1.5-3.5 cm. long); 

 racemes simple, terminal, one-sided ; calyx ovoid, villous-hirsute ; petals small. 

 (S. anglica L.) — Fields and waste places, local. (Adv. from Old World.) 



5. S. DicHOTOMA Ehrh. Tall, more or less hirsute; leaves lanceolate or ob- 

 lanceolate ; racemes branched; flowers short-pediceled, one in each fork, the 

 others solitary at the nodes of the spreading rhachises ; calyx-ribs 5, hirsute, 

 simple; petals much exserted, white or pink. — Clover fields, etc., N. E. to Tex., 

 and on the Pacific Slope. (Introd. from Eu.) 



•^ H- •<- Pubescent and viscid ; flowers cymose. 



6. S. noctifl6ra L. (Nioht-flowering Catchfly.) Tall (3-9 dm. high); 

 lower leaves large and spatulate, the upper lanceolate ; flowers few, large, 

 peduncled, white or nearly so, fragrant, opening at night; calyx-tube 2.5 cm. 

 long, with awl-shaped teeth. — Cultivated grounds. 



*** Calyx b-\^-nerved, elongated or club-shaped, not inflated except by the 

 enlarging pod; flo>"prs cymnsp or clustered; perennial, pubescent with 

 viscid hairs, especially the calyx. 



t- Petals white or rose-color. 



7. S. Menzi§sii Hook. Weak, low, dichotomously branched ; flowers small, 

 white, in leafy cymes ; calyx obconical ; petals 2-cleft, usually crownless. — S. 

 Mo. {Blankinship) to Neb., Assina., and westw. 



8. S. nutans L. Leafy chiefly near the base ; stems 3-6 dm. high, slender, 

 bearing a narrow panicle of nodding pink flowers; petals rather deeply bifid, 



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