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* Petals notched ; plants smooth. 



S. officin&lis, Linn. COMMON S. or BOUNCING BET. l-2 high ; leaves 

 ovate or oval ; flowers rather large, rose-color or white, single or double, 

 in dense clusters ; the petals crowned ; calyx not angled. Cult, and 

 along roadsides. 2/ 



S- Vaccaria, Linn. Cow HERB. Leaves lanceolate and pale, partly 

 clasping ; flowers pale red in loose open cyme ; calyx becoming strongly 

 winged. Cult, and runs wild. @ 



* * Petals entire ; plant hairy. 



S. ocymoldes, Linn. BASIL S. Profusely branched ; leaves ovate-lance- 

 olate acute ; calyx purplish, cylindric ; petal-limb not narrowed. Cult. If. 



3. GYPSOPHILA. (Greek: loving gypsum, because preferring cal- 

 careous soil.) 



G. pan icu fata, Linn. BABY'S BREATH. Very smooth, pale, l-2 high ; 

 with lance-linear leaves and branches repeatedly forking into very loose 

 and light cymes, bearing innumerable very small and delicate white 

 flowers. Cult. 2Z Eu. 



G. elegans, Eieb. ELEGANT G. l-2 high, loosely spreading ; with 

 lanceolate leaves much larger (' broad) and fewer flowers, white or 

 slightly rosy. Cult. Caucasus. 



G. murafis, Linn. Low, leaves very narrowly linear ; flowers purplish 

 on slender pedicels solitary in the forks. Sparingly naturalized from Eu. 

 and cult. 



4. LYCHNIS. (Greek : lamp, an old name applied to some flame- 

 colored species.) All from the Old World ; flowers summer. 



1. Calyx icith long, leaf-like lobes; petals not crowned. 



L. Githago, Lam. CORN COCKLE. Hairy, with long, linear leaves, and 

 long-peduncled, showy, red-purple flowers ; in fruit the calyx-lobes fall- 

 ing off. A weed in grainfields, the black seeds injurious to the grain. 



2. Calyx without long, leaf-like lobes ; petals crowned with a 2-cleft little 

 scale or pair of teeth on the base of the blade or at the top of the claw. 1L 

 * Flowers in dense cymes, 1' or less broad. 



L. Chalceddnica, Linn. SCARLET L. Very common in country gardens ; 

 tall, rather hairy, and coarse, with lance-ovate, partly clasping green leaves, 

 and a very dense, flat-topped cluster of many smallish flowers ; the bright 

 scarlet or brick-red petals deeply 2-lobed. 



L Viscaria, Linn. Occasional in gardens; smooth, but the slender 

 stem glutinous towards the top ; leaves linear ; flowers many, in a narrow, 

 raceme-like cluster, rather small ; calyx tubular or club-shaped ; petals 

 pink-red, slightly notched ; also a double-flowered variety. 



L. alplna, Linn. Dwarf, 6' high, tufted ; quite smooth ; leaves crowded ; 

 flowers in a round-topped cluster, petals deeply notched. Perhaps a var. 

 of the preceding. Eu. 



* * Flowers few or single, very large (2' or more). 



L. grand/flora, Jacq. Smooth ; leaves oblong, tapering to both ends ; 

 flowers short peduncled ; the red or scarlet petals fringe-toothed at the 

 end. Cult, from China. 



L. fulgens, Fischer. Hairy, l-2 high; leaves ovate-lanceolate; 

 flowers bright vermilion ; petals deeply cleft, with 2 linear, awl-shaped, 

 lateral lobes. Siberia. 



