12 CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 



* Styles alternate with tlie sepals. 

 Sagina. (Plate 109.) Valves of the capsule as many as the sepals 

 (4 or 5) and opposite them. Petals entire or none. 



# * Styles fewer than the sepals, or if as many, opposite them, 

 -t- Valves of the capsules as many as the styles (usually 3) and entire. 

 HoNKENYA. (Plate 110.) Stamens inserted on a conspicuous glandular- 



10-lobed disk. Seeds few, inserted on the base of the capsule, ros- 



tellate. Leaves and stems very succulent. 

 Alsine. (Plate 111.) Seeds numerous on a central columnar placenta, 



not strophiolate. Leaves subulate, filiform or linear. 

 -4- H- Capsule dehiscent by twice as many valves or teeth as there are styles. 

 McEHRiNGiA. (Plate 112.) Petals entire. Capsule 4- 6-valved. Seeds 



few, strophiolate. 

 Stellaria. (Plate 113.) Petals 2-cleft, rarely minute and entire, or 



none. Capsule 6 - 8-valved. Seeds numerous, not strophiolate. 

 Cerastium. (Plate 114.) Petals obcordate or 2-cleft. Capsule dehis- 

 cent at the apex by twice as many teeth (usually 10) as there are 



styles. 



SuBORD. V. SILENE^. 



Sepals united into a tube. Petals unguiculate, usually convolute in aesti- 

 vation, inserted with the stamens upon the summit of a short or elongated 

 stipe (carpophore) which supports the ovary. — Stipules none. 



SiLENE, (Plate 115.) Calyx ebracteolate, 5-toothed. Styles 3. Cap- 

 sule dehiscent at the summit by 6 teeth. 



