DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 239 



Cockle. Anglis, 



Jn corn fields. O . VI. 



The Italk is two feet high, ercdl, but little branched 

 and hairy : the leaves linear, acute and hairy : 

 the fegments of the calyx hairy ftriated, and ra- 

 ther longer than the corolla : the petals obtufe, 

 and of a bright purple color : the feeds black, 

 and elegantly rough, having a white meal or 

 flour. 



LYCHNIS. Gen.pL 584. 

 Cal, i-phyllus, oblongus, Isevis. Pet da 5, ungui- 

 culata. Limbo fubbifido. Caps, 5-locularis. 

 flos cuculi I LYCHNIS petalis quadrifidis, frudu fubrotundo. 



Sp. pi. 625. (Ger. em, 600./. i. Moris, hiji.f, 5. 



/. 20./. 8. Pet, herb, t. 56, f, 6) 

 Meadow Pinks, Wild Williams, Cuckow Flower, 



or Ragged Robbins. Anglis, 

 In moifl meadows and wet boggy places frequent. 



IX. VI. 

 The flalk is angular, and red at the joints : the 



leaves reflex'd on their edges, and red at their 



ends : the calyx llreak'd with ten red prominent 



lines : the petals red and quadrifid or jagged. 

 Cattle rcfufe to eat it. 



vifcaria 2. LYCHNIS petalis fubintegris. Syft, nat, 319. Sp. 

 pi, 625. (Ger. em. 601. /. 3. Moris. hift,f. 5. /. 

 20./. 6. Pet. herb. t. 57./. 8) 

 Red Catch fly. Anglis. 



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