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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Distribution. Native to Europe. Common in fields and along roadsides 

 from New England to Illinois and Iowa. 



Silene antirrhina L. Sleepy Catchfly 



A puberulent annual with glutinous nodes and slender stem; lower leaves 

 spatulate or oblanceolate, petioled; upper leaves linear to subulate; flowers small 

 in cymose panicles ; calyx not inflated, but expanded by the opening pod, ovoid ; 

 petals pink, obcordate, minutely crowned, seeds small, roughened. 



Distribution. Common in sandy fields, gravelly soils, and in waste places 

 from New England and Florida to Mexico, north to British Columbia, and east 

 to Ontario. 



Silene noctiflora L. Night-flowering Catchfly 



A viscid hairy annual, from 1-3 feet high; lower leaves obovate or oblance- 

 olate; the upper sessile and lanceolate; flowers few, in a loose panicle, white or 



Fig. 214. Sleepy Catchfly (Silene 

 JfrrMMft). A weed of sandy fields. 

 (Charlotte M. King.) 



Fig. 215. Night-flowering Catchfly (Silene noctiflora). Possibly 

 poisonous. (Charlotte M. King.) 



