64 PINK FAMILY. 



* Calyx with a scaly cup or set of bracts at its base: styles 2. 



1 DIANTHUS. Calyx cylindrical, faintly many-striate. Petals without a crown. 



Seeds attached by the face: embryo in the albumen and nearly straight! 

 * « Calyx naked al base : seeds attached by the edge : embryo curved. 



2 LYCHNIS. Styles 5, rarely 4. Calyx not angled, but mostly 10-nerved. 



3. SILENE. Styles 3. Calyx not angled, mostly 10-nerved. 



4. VACCAKIA. Styles 2. Calyx pyramidal, becoming 5-wing-angled. 



5. SAPONARIA. Styles 2. Calyx cylindrical or oblong, not angled, 5-tootlied. 



Pod 4-valved at the top. , „ , . j j, ,■ .. 



6 GYPSOPHILA. Styles 2. Calyx bell-shaped, 6-cleft, or thin and delicate 



below the sinuses. Pod 4-valved. Flowers small and panicled, resembling 



those of Sandwort, &o. 



II. CHICKWEED FAMILY, &c. Petals spreading, without 



claws, occasionally wanting. Sepals (4 or 5) separate or united 



only at base, or rarely higher up. Flowers small, compared with 



the Pink Family, and the plants usually low and spreading or tufted. 



* Witliout stipules, generally with petals : pod several-seeded. 



7. SAGINA. Styles and valves of the pod as many as the sepals and alternate 



wilh them (4 or 5). Petals entire or none. Small plants. 



8. CERASTIUM. Styles as many as the sepals and opposite them (5). Petals 



notched at the end or 2-cleft, rarely none. Pod mostly elongated, opening at 

 the top by 10 teeth. 



9. STELLARIA. Styles fewer than the sepals (3 or sometimes 4) and opposite 



as many of them. Petals 2-cleft, or sometimes none. Pod globular or ovoid, 

 splitting into twice as manv valves as there are styles. 



10. AREi^AUIA. Styles (commonly only 3) fewer than the sepals and opposite as 



many of them. Petals entire, rarely none. Pod globular or oblong, splitting 

 into as many or twice as many valves as there are styles. 

 « « With scarious stipules between the leaves, conspicuous and entire petals, and a 

 many-seeded 3 - b-valvedpod. 



11. SPERGULARIA. Styles usually 3. Leaves opposite. 



12. SPliRGULA. Styles 5, as many as the sepals and alternate with them. 



Leaves in whorls. 



« * « Without petals : the fruit (utricle) 1-seeded and indehiscent. 



13. ANYCHIA. Sepals 6, nearly distinct. Stamens 2-5. Stigmas 2, sessile. 



Stipules and flowers minute. 



14. SCLERANTHUS. Sepals (5) united below into an indurated cup, narrowed at 



the throat where it bears 6 or 10 stamens, enclosing the small utricle. 

 Styles 2. .Stipules none. 

 # * * * Without petals, but the 5 sepals white and petal-like inside; stipules obscure 

 if any : fruit a Z-celled many-seeded pod. 



15. MOLLUGO. Stamens generally 3, on the receptacle. Stigmas 3. Pod 



3-valved, the partitions breaking away from the seed-bearing axis and ad- 

 hering to the middle of the valves. 



1. DIANTHUS, PINK. (GreekTiame,meamng Jove's own flower.) All 

 but the first species cultivated for ornament : fl. summer. 



» Flowers sessile and many in a close clusler, with long and narrow-pointed bracts 

 under the calyx, except in the last. 



D. Armaria, Deptford Pink of Europe, has got introduced into fields 

 in a few jilaccs ; a rather insignificant plant, somewhat hairy, narrow-leaved, 

 with very small scentless flowers ; petals rose-color with whitish dots. ® 



D. barb^tus, Sweet William or Bunch Pink, of Europe, with thin- 

 nish oblong-lanceolate green leaves, and a very flat-topped cluster of various- 

 colored flowers, the petals sharply toothed, abounds in all country gardens; the 

 many double-flowered varieties are more choice, y. 



D. CartllUSiail6rum, Carthusi.\ns' Pink, fromEu., has linear leaves, 

 slender stems, and a dense cluster of small flowers ; bracts ovate or oblong, 

 abruptly awn-tipped, brown, shorter than the calyx ; petals merely toothed, 

 short, usually dark purple or crimson : now rather scarce in gardens. ^ 



