88 CARYOPHYLLACE^E. (PINK FAMILY.) 



scale-like stipules (except in Scleranthus), the uppermost sometimes alternate. Flowers 

 mostly small. 



# Pod (capsule) many-seeded. Styles 3-5. Petals usually conspicuous. 

 11 Spergulafla. Styles 3-5. Leaves opposite. 



12. Spergula. Styles 5. Valves of the pod opposite the sepals. Leaves whorled. 



* * Pod (utricle) 1-seeded. Styles 2, often united. Petals none or minute. 



13. Anychia. Stamens on the base of the 5-parted awnless calyx. Style hardly any. 



14. Paronychia. Stamens on the base of the 5-parted calyx •, the sepals bristle-pointed. 



Style 1, two-cleft at the top. 



15. Scleranthus. Stamens borne on the throat of the indurated 5-cleft and pointless calyx. 



Styles 2. Stipules none. 

 Tribe IV. MOLLiUGIIVEJE. Stamens alternate with the sepals when of the same 

 number, when fewer alternate with the cells of the 3-celled ovary. Partitions of the pod 

 persistent on the valves. Leaves not truly opposite, otherwise as in Tribe II. 



16. Mollugo. Petals none. Stamens 3-5. Stigmas 3. Pod many-seeded. 



1. DIANTHUS, L. Pink. Carnation. 



Calyx cylindrical, nerved or striate, 5-toothed, subtended by 2 or more imbri- 

 cated bractlets. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod 1-celled, 4-valved at the apex. 

 Seeds flattish on the back : embryo scarcely curved. — Ornamental plants, of 

 well-known aspect and value in cultivation. (Name from Aio's, of Jupiter, and 

 avOos, flower, i. e. Jove's own flower. ) Two insignificant annual species are 

 rarely spontaneous. 



1. D. Armaria, L. (Deptford Pink.) Flowers in close clusters ; bract- 

 lets of the calyx and bracts lance-awl-form, herbaceous, downy, as long as the 

 tube ; leaves linear, hairy ; petals small, rose-color with white dots, crenate. — 

 Fields, &c, Virginia to E. Massachusetts. July. — (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. D. prolifer, L. (Proliferous Pink.) Smooth, slender; flowers 

 clustered ; bractlets ovate, dry, concealing the calyx ; leaves few, narrow, linear, 

 erect; petals small, pink. — Near Philadelphia, C. E. Smith. (Adv. from Eu.) 



2. SAPONARIA, L. Soapwort. 



Calyx tubular, terete, nerveless, 5-toothed, naked at the base. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 2. Pod short-stalked, 1-celled, or partly 2-celled at the base, 4-toothed 

 at the apex. — Flowers clustered. (Name from sapo, soap, the mucilaginous 

 juice forming a lather with water.) 



1. S. officinalis, L. (Common Soapwort. Bouncing Bet.) Clus- 

 ters corymbed; petals crowned with an appendage at the top of the claw; 

 leaves oval-lanceolate. — Roadsides, &c. July - Sept. — A stout perennial, 

 with large rose-colored flowers, commonly double. (Adv. from Eu.) 



3. VACCAEIA, Medik. Cow-Herb. 



Calyx naked at the base, ovoid-pyramidal, 5-angled, 5-toothed, enlarged and 

 wing-angled in fruit. Petals not crowned. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod in- 

 completely 4-celled at the base. — A smooth annual, with pale red flowers in 

 corymbed cymes, and ovate-lanceolate leaves. (Name from vacca, a cow.) 



1. V. vulgaris, Host. (Saponaria Vaccaria, L.) — Escaped from gardens 

 and becoming spontaneous in some places. (Adv. from Eu.) 



