g4 PINK FAMILY. 



• Qilyx wUh a scaly cup or set of bracts ia its hose: styles 2. 



1 niANTHUS. Oalvx cylindrical, faintly many-striate. Petals without a crown. 



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

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



2 LYCHNIS " Styles 5, rarely 4. Calyx not angled, but mostly lO-nei-ved. 

 a" SILENK. Stvles 3. Calyx not angled, mostly lO-nerved. 



4 V^CCAKIA." Stvles 2. Calyx pyramidal, becoming 5-wmg-angIed. 



8. SAPONAKIA. Styles 2. Calyx cylindrical or oblong, not angled, 5-toothed. 



Pod 4-valved at the top. , . -, ^ .v j j i- . 



6 GYPSOPHILA Styles 2. Calvx bell-shaped, 5-eleft, or thin and delicate 



below Ihe sinuses. Pod 4-valve'd. Flowers small and panicled, resembling 



those of Sandwort, &c. 



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



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



only at ba=e, or rarely higlier up. Flowers small, compared with 



the Pink Family, and the plants usually low and spreading or tutted^ 



K Withmt stipules, generally witii petals : pod several-seeded. 



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



with them (4 or 6). 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 many valves as there are styles, __, 



(0. ARENARIA. Stvles (coramonlv 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. 

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

 many-seeded 3 - &-vahiedpod. 



11. SPERGULARIA. Styles usually 3. Leaves opposite. 



12. SPEBGULA. Styles 6, as many as the sepals and alternate with tliem. 



Leaves in whorls. 



K » * Without petals : the fruit (utricle) 1-seeded and inJehiscenl. 



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



Stipules and flowers minute. 



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



the throat where it bears 5 or ID stamens, enclosing the small utricle. 

 Styles 2. Stipules none. 

 j)t « « ^ Without petals, but the 5 sepals white ami petal-like inside: stipules obscure 

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



15. MOLLUGO. Stamens generally S, 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. DIANTHUSj PINK. (Greek name, meaning Jove's own flower.) All 



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



» Flowers sessile and many in a close cluster, 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 places ; 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 Pjxk, ot 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. 2/ 



D. Carthusian6rum, Carthusians' Pink, from Eu., has linear leaves, 

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

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

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



