PINK FAMILY. Caryophyll&ceae. 



Indian Pink This has handsome conspicuous flowers 



Silene ladnitoa dear verm iH on or pinkish-scarlet ir. 

 Summer color, about an inch and a half across, witt 



California the five petals prettily slashed at the endj 



into four long divisions. Each petal has 

 two little crests, which form a pretty " crown " in the throat 

 of the corolla. The roughish, slender stems, from one tc 

 over two feet high, have several branches, the flowen 

 growing two or three at the ends. The leaves are long 

 narrow, and rather rough and the whole plant is hairy anc 

 sticky. This is common around Pasadena and othei 

 places in southern California and is beautiful on Pour 

 Loma, where the brilliant flowers gleam among the under- 

 brush like bits of flame. S. laciniata var. Greggii is commor 

 in Arizonia and New Mexico. 



Rather pretty, with a slender sten 



about a foot tal1 ' smooth ' bluish-greei 

 Summer leaves, and flowers about three-quarters o: 



Northwest an inch across; the calyx much inflated 



yellowish- white and papery, with brownish 

 veins, and the petals cream-color, with two lobes and i 

 "crown." 



There are a few kinds of Vaccaria, of Europe and Asia 

 smooth annuals, with clasping leaves and red or pinl 

 flowers in terminal clusters; calyx five-angled and inflatec 

 in fruit, five- toothed, without bracts; petals longer than th< 

 calyx, without appendages; stamens ten; styles two 

 Both the Latin and common names allude to the value o 

 some kinds for fodder. 



c . Quite pretty, with a leafy, branching 



Vaccdria vaccdria stem from one to three feet tall, bluish 

 (SaponaHa) green leaves, and flowers less than an incl 



long, with a ribbed, ycllowish-greei 



cal y x ' With reddish teeth - and the P etal 

 a very pretty and unusual shade of deep 



warm reddish-pink, veined with deepe 

 color. This is a European "weed," common in wast< 

 places and cultivated fields. 



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