1 76 THE FLORA 



6 Styles or stigmas 3 or 5. Pod 1-celled, many-seeded.. . .e 

 6 Styles or stigmas 2 or united into 1. Pod 1-seeded f 



Styles 2. Petals variously notched or fringed. Pink. DIAN'TI 



b Styles 2. ^Capsule 4-toothed when open. Soapwort. SAPONA'I 



b Styles 3. Capsule 6-toothed when open. Silent. SILK 



b Styles 5. Calyx 5-toothed, teeth short or long. Rose Campion. LYCH 



Styles 5. Pod opening at top by 10 teeth. Moute-ear. CERASTI 



Styles 3. Pod splitting into 6 valves. Chickweed. Starwort. STELLA'UIA. 



d Styles 3. Valves of the ripe pod 3, each 2-toothed. Sandwort. ARENV'HIA. 



d Styles 3. Valves of the pod 3, entire. Grove Sandwort. ALSI-'NK. 



d Styles 4 or 5, always as many as the sepals. Pearlwort. SAOI'NA. 



d Styles 3 and 5. Plant fleshy. Disk 10-lobed. Sea Sandwort. HONKEN'VA. 

 e Styles 5. Leaves linear, whorled. Flowers white. S furry. SPER'OULA. 



e Styles 3 and 5. Lvs. linear, opposite. Fls. red. Sand Spurry. SPKROULA'RIA. 

 e Styles 3 in all the fls. Leaves in 4's. Stipules ovate. All-seed. POLYCAR'PON. 

 Styles 8 in all the fls. Leaves opposite. Stipules many cleft. STIPULIC'IDA. 



f Sepals green, distinct or nearly so. ... Nailwort. PARONYCII'IA. 



f Sepals white above, united into a tube below. SYPHONYCH'IA. 



g Styles 2. Utricle inclosed in the hardened calyx tube. KnaweU. SCLERAN'THUS. 

 h Styles 8. Stamens 8 or 5. Herb flat on the ground. Ca-rpet-wetd. MOLLU'OO. 5 



1. DIAN'TIIUS. Pink. Carnation. 



Calyx tubular, cylindrical, striate, with 2 or more pairs of opposite, im- 

 bricated scales at base. Petals 5, with long claws, limb unequally notched. 

 Stamens 10. Styles 2, with re volute stigmas. Capsule cylindrical, one 

 celled. 



1 Bracts as long as the calyx tube 1, 2, 3 



Tf Bracts much shorter than the calyx. . . .4, 5, 6 



1 D. Arme'ria. Wild Pink. Bracts erect. Leaves linear. Flowers small, pink-red 



in cymes of about 3. Stern 18-24' high. In sandy fields. July. E. 



2 D. barbatns. Sweet William, or Bunch Pink. Braots erect. Leaves lanceolate, 



cymes large, many-flowered. Red or variegated with white. May-July, t 

 D. Chinen'sis. China Pink. Bracts spreading. Leaves lance-linear. Flowers 



solitary, red, large. Plant evergreen, not glaucous, t 

 4 D. caryophyl'lns. Carnation Pink. Bracts rounded. Petals crenate, benrcl 



less. Whole plant glaucous. Many beautiful varieties, t 

 ;"> D pluma'rius. Pheasant 1 s-eye. Bracts ovate. Petals fringe-toothed, bearded. 



Plant glaucous. Flowers solitary, white and purple, t 



6. D. super'bus. Superb P. Bracts mucronate, ovate. Petals pinnatitid fringed, 

 bearded, cymes level-topped. Wh'te. t 



