CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 



crowned. —Mt, Desert I., Me. {Miss Minot) and Staten I., N. Y. {Kerr)\ 



doubtfally established. (Adv. from Eu.) 



9. S. pennsylvanica Michx. (Wild Pink.) Stems low (1-2 dm. high) ; 

 root-leaves narrowly spatulate, nearly glabrous, tapering into hairy petioles; 

 stem-leaves (2 or 3 pairs) lanceolate; flowers cymosely clustered, short-stalked; 

 calyx club-shaped ; petals wedge-form, slightly notched and eroded, pink. {S. 

 caroliniana Walt. ?) — Gravelly and rocky places, e. Mass. to N. Y., Ky., and 

 southw. Apr.-June. 



1- H- Petals long., deep crimson or scarlet, crowned. 



10. S. virginica L. (Fire Pink, Catchfly.) Stems slender (3-6 dm. 

 high); leaoes thin, spatulate, or the upper oblong-lanceolate ; flowers few and 

 loosely cymose, peduncled ; calyx subcylindrical, soon obconical ; petals oblong, 

 2-cleft, deep crimson, the limb 2.5 cm. long. — Open woods, s. N.J. to w. N. Y., 

 s. w. Ont., Minn., and southw. June-Aug. 



11. S. regia Sims. (Royal Catchfly.) Stem roughish, erect (1 ra. high); 

 leaves thickish, ovate-lanceolate, acute ; flowers numerous, short-stalked, in 

 clusters, forming a strict panicle ; calyx ovoid-club-shaped in fruit ; petals spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, mostly undivided, deep scarlet. — Prairies, 0. to Mo., and southw. 

 July. 



12. S. rotundif51ia Nutt. (Rodnd-leaved Catchfly.) Viscid-hairy ; stems 

 weak, branched, decumbent (6 dm. long) ; leaves thin, round, abruptly pointed, 

 the lower obovate ; flowers few, loosely cymose, stalked ; calyx elongated ; petals 

 2-cleft and cut-toothed, deep scarZei. — Shaded banks, s. O., Ky., and southw. 

 June-Aug. — Leaves and flowers large. 



* * * * Calyx bladdery -inflated ; perennial; flowers panicled, white, in summer. 



*^13. S. stellata (L.) Ait. f. (Starry Campion.) Stem 7-10 dm. high, with 

 a large and open pyramidal panicle ; leaves in whorls of 4, ovate-lanceolate, 

 taper-pointed ; calyx bell-shaped ; corolla 2 cm. broad ; petals cut into a fringe, 

 crownless. — Wooded banks, Mass. to Minn., Neb., and southw. 



14. S. nivea (Nutt.) Otth. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or oblong, taper- 

 pointed ; calyx subcylindric ; petals wedge-form, "l-cleft, minutely crowned. {S. 

 alba Muhl., as nomen subnudum.)— Fii. to D. C, w. to Minn, and Neb., rare; 

 al^o cultivated, and occasionally escaped elsewhere. 



K 15. S. latif6lia (Mill.) Britten & Rendle. (Bladder Campion.) Glau- 

 cous ; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate ; calyx globular, much inflated, elegantly 

 veined ; petals 2-cleft, nearly crownless. (S. inflata Sin. ; S. Cucubalus Wibel ; 

 S. vidgaris Garcke.) — Fields, roadsides, and alluvial banks, e. Que. to Ont., s. 

 to N. J., 111., and la. — Flowers loosely cymose. (Nat. from Eu.) 



***** Dwarf, alpine, tufted, smooth, perennial ; flowering shoots 1-flowered. 



16. S. acaiilis L. (Moss Campion.) Tufted like a moss; leaves linear, 

 crowded ; flowers almost sessile, or rarely on a naked peduncle ; petals purple or 

 rarely white, notched or entire, crowned. — Alpine summits of the White Moun- 

 tains, N. H., and north w. ; also western mountains. July. (Eu.) 



11. saponAria l. 



Calyx narrowly ovoid or subcylindric, 5-toothed, obscurely nerved, naked. 

 Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod 1-celled, or incompletely 2-4-celled at base, 

 4-toothed at the apex. — Coarse annuals or perennials, with large flowers. 

 (Name from sapo, soap, the mucilaginous juice forming a lather with water.) 



1. S. officinalis L. (Soapwort, Bouncing Bet.) Flowers in corymbed 

 clusters ; calyx terete ; petals crowned with an appendage at the top of the claw ; 

 leaves oval-lanceolate. — Roadsides, etc. July-Sept. — A stout perennial, with 

 large rose-colored flowers, commonly double. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. S. VaccXria L. (Cow-herb.) Annual, glabrous ; flowers in corymbed 

 cymes; calyx b-angled, enlarged and wing-angled in fruit; petals pale red, not 

 crowned ; leaves ovate-lanceolate. ( Vaccaria vulgaris Host ; V. Vaccaria Bril> 

 ton.) — Occasionally spontaneous, or a weed in grainfields. (Adv. from Eu.y 



