CATCHFLY FAMILY. 



We now come to a Genus, very nearly allied. I 

 will give you the Botanical description, and then, you 

 will never be puzzled with them ; though some have 

 named Catchflies Campions. Like the Catchflies, 

 nearly all the flowers are white. 



[CAMPIOX-LYCHNIS. Lychnis. 



Calyx Monophyllous, tubular, 5-toothed. Petals 5-clawed, 

 crowned at the mouth, mostly divided at the border. Stamens 

 10. Styles usually 5. Capsules opening by 5 or 10 teeth, 

 (PI. I. 4 k.) Named from the Greek, which signifies ' a Lamp/ 

 the thick, cottony substance on the leaves of some foreign 

 species, having been used as wicks to Lamps. 



WHITE CAMPION. Lychnis vespertina. 



Flowers, often with only stamens, or only pistils, (sub- 

 dioecious.) Calyx of the pistil-bearing (pistilliferous) flowers, 

 with long, narrow teeth ; Capsule conical, with teeth erect. 

 Ovary 1-celled. Calyx of the anther-bearing flowers, nearly 

 cylindrical: of the pistil-bearing flowers, egg-shaped. Stem 

 1 2 feet high. Flowers pure white, on stalks unequally 

 placed, (panicled) downy ; slightly sticky about the joints. 

 Leaves egg-shaped or broadly lanceolate. Sweet-scented in 

 the evening. Common in fields and hedges from June to the 

 end of August. PI. II. 8. o.] 



THE BED CAMPION (L. diurna) is very similar, 

 with deep, Rose-color Petals. 



