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» « Flowers single at the ends of the branches : teaues narrow and often grass-like, 

 ratlier rigid, glabrous and glaucous, usually mlliout any evident veins. 



D. Chiu^nsis, China or Indian Pink, has lanceolate leaves, less rigid 

 and greener than any of the following, and linear acute scales or bracts as long 

 as the calyx ; the largo petals toothed or cut, of various colors, red, purple, 

 violet, &c. The garden var. Hisddewigii is a more glaucous and large-flowered 

 form, lately introduced. Qj ® 



D. Caryop]i:^Uus, Clove Pink, the parent of all the sorts of Carna- 

 tion, &c., has the stems almost woody below, very glaucous long-linear leaves ; 

 the scales under the calyx very short and broad ; petals merely toothed, of 

 various colors. Scarcely hardy N. 2/ 



D. plumkrius, Pheasant's-eye or Plumed Pink. A low, hardy spe- 

 cies, making broad tufts, with small very glaucous leaves, sending up flower- 

 stems in early summer, the white or pink or variegated petals cut into a fringe 

 of slender lobes, y. 



D. SUp6rbus, is taller, less tufted, and later-flowered ; the large petals 

 entirely dissected into delicate almost capillary divisions. 2J. 



2. LYCHNIS. (Greek name for lamp, the down of the Mullein Lychnis 

 having been used for wicking. ) All from the Old World : fl. summer. 



§ 1 . Calyx with long leaf -like lobes : petals naked, (i) 



Ii. GithagO, CoKN-CocKLB. A weed in grain-fields, hairy, with long 

 linear leaves, and long-peduncled showy red-purple flowers ; in fruit the calyx- 

 lobes falling oif ; the black seeds injurious to the grain. 



§ 2. Calyx without long leaf-like lobes : petals crowned vdth a 2-cleft little scale or 

 pair of teeth on the base of the blade or at the top of the claw, y 



Ii. coronaria, Mullein-Lychnis or Mullein Pink, Cult, in gar- 

 dens; the flower, crimson and like that of Cokn-Cockle ; but teeth of the 

 calyx short and slender ; plant white-cottony ; leaves oval or oblong. @ y, 



L. Flos-J6vis, Jupiter's L. Less common in gardens, downy-hairy or 

 cottony and whitish ; leaves lance-oblong ; flowers many and smaller, in u 

 head-like long-peduncled cluster, reddish-purple ; petals obcordate. 



L. Clialced6llica, Maltese-Cross or Scarlet L. Very common in 

 country-gardens ; tall, rather hairy and coarse, with lance-ovate partly clasping 

 green leaves, and a very dense flat-topped cluster of many smallish flowers ; the 

 bright scarlet or brick-red petals deeply 2-lobed. 



L. grandiflbra. Large-flowered L. Cult from China; smooth, with 

 oblong green leaves tapering to both ends, and the branches bearing single or 

 scattered short-peduncled flowers, which are 2' or 3' across ; the red or scarlet 

 petals fringe- toothed at the end. 



L. Viso^ia, Viscid L. Rather scarce in gardens ; smooth, but the slen- 

 der stem glutinous towards the top ; leaves linear ; flowers many in a narrow 

 raceme-like cluster, rather small ; calyx tubular or club-shaped ; petals pink- 

 red, slightly notched : also a double-flowered variety. 



Xi. Flos-ctlGUli, Cuckoo L. Ragged Robin is the double-flowered 

 variety, in gardens ; slightly downy and glutinous, with lanceolate leaves, and 

 an open panicle of pink-red petals, these cleft into 4 narrow -linear lobes. 



L. diurna. Day-blooming L. Double-flowered form also called Ragged 

 Robin in the gardens ; smoothish or soft-hairy ; leaves oblong or lance-oii'ate, 

 the upper ones pointed ; flowers scattered or somewhat clustered on the 

 branches, rose-red. 



L. vespertina, Evening-blooming L. A weed in some waste grounds, 

 like the last, and more like the Night-flowering Catohfly ; but has 5 styles and 

 a more ovate enlarging calyx ; the flowers are commonly dioecious, white, and 

 open after sunset, the root biennial. But a full double-flowering variety in gar- 

 dens is perennial, day-flowering, and is a white sort of Ragged Robin. 



3. SIIiENS, CATCHFLY. (Both names refer to the sticky exudation on 

 stems and calyx of several species, by whiclj small insects are often caught. ) 

 Besides the following, some other wild or cultivated species? are met with, but 

 not common. Fl. mostly all summer. 



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