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CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats. 

 Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. 



Silene Drummondii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i ; 



1830. 



L. Drummondii S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 1871. 



Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- 

 ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and 

 viscid, i°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, 

 acute, narrowed into a margined petiole or the 

 upper sessile, I'-^V long; flowers few, slender- 

 pedicelled, white or purplish, 6"-io" long; petals 

 scarcely longer than the tubular calyx, entire or 

 emarginate at the apex, narrower than the au- 

 ricled claw; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6"-8" long; 

 seeds tuberculate. 



In dry soil, Nebraska to Minnesota, Manitoba, west 

 to California and Oregon. June-July. 



6. Lychnis apetala L. Nodding Lychnis. 

 Fig. 1822. 



Lychnis apetala L. Sp. PI. 437. 1753. 



Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3'-8' high, glandu- 

 lar-pubescent at least above. Stems i-flowered; leaves 

 linear or oblanceolate, \'-2.\' long, i"-3" wide, sessile, 

 or the lower narrowed into a petiole; flower nodding, 

 6"-8" long; petals narrow, 2-cleft, included in the 

 calyx; calyx inflated, strongly purple-veined, its teeth 

 triangular-ovate, acute ; petals narrow, about i" wide, 

 minutely appendaged, equalling or shorter than the 

 calyx, deeply 2-cleft; capsule erect, ovoid, 4" in 

 diameter. 



Labrador and throughout arctic America. Also in arctic 

 and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer. 



7. Lychnis affinis Vahl. Arctic Lychnis. Fig. 1823. 



Lychnis affinis Vahl, in Fries, Mant. 3: 36. 1843. 



Tufted, arctic, perennial, erect, 2'-4' high, glandular-pubescent 

 throughout. Basal leaves spatulate, obtuse, about i' long, ciliate ; 

 stem-leaves linear, i'-i' long, obtuse, sessile, or narrowed into 

 a short broad petiole ; flower erect, 4"-6" long ; calyx oblong or 

 ovate-campanulate, slightly inflated, its teeth short, acute; petals 

 somewhat exserted, the blade narrowed below, emarginate and 

 eroded, the appendages minute. 



Labrador and arctic America and Europe. Summer. 



