54 CAETOPHYLLACE^. (PINK FAMILY.) 



SuBOKDEE m. ILLECEBRE^. The Knotwoet Family. 



Character same as of the Chickweed Family, but with dry scale-like 

 stipules, the uppermost leaves rarely alternate, and the 1-celled pods some- 

 times 1-seeded. 



* Pod (capsule) many-seeded. Styles 3-5. Petals usually conspicuous. 

 14. SPERGtJLABIA. Styles 3 -5. Leaves opposite. 



16. SPERGULA. Styles 5. Yalves of the pod opposite the sepals. Leaves whorled. 

 * * Pod (utricle) 1-aeeded. Styles 2, often united. Petals bristle-form or none. Stamen! 

 plainly inserted on the base of the calyx. 



16. ANYCnLl. Petals none. Sepals flattish, unarmed. 



17. PARONYCHIA. Petals minute or bristle-form. Sepals concave, a^med. 



SuBOBDER IV. SCLEKANTflEiE. The Knawel Family. 



Characters of the preceding, but no stipules, and the sepals more united 

 below into an indurated tube surrounding the utricle ; the stamens inserted 

 at the throat. 



18. SCLEEANTHUS. Petals none. Stamens 5 or 10. 



Suborder V. MOLLUGINEiE. Indian-Chickweed Family. 



Stamens alternate with the sepals when of the same number, when fewer 

 alternate with the cells of the 3-celIed ovary : — otherwise as in Suborders 

 2 and 3. 



19. MOLLUGO. Petals none. Stamens 3-5. Stigmas 3. Pod 3-celled, many-seeded. 



SuBOKDEE I. SILiE]\E.aE. The Proper Pink Family. 



1. DIANTHUS, L. Pink. Caenation. 



Calyx cylindrical, 5-toothed, supported at the base by 2 or more imbricated 

 bractlets. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Pod long-stalked, 1-cellcd, 4-valved at the 

 apex. Seeds flattish : embryo scarcely curved. — Ornamental plants, of well- 

 knoAvn aspect and value in cultivation, none natives of tliis country. (Name 

 from Aidr, of Jupiter, and avBos, flower, i. e. Jove's own flower.) 



1. W. AKiiiKiA, L. (Deptfokd Pink.) Flowers in close clusters ; bract- 

 lets of the calyx and bracts lance-awl-form, downy, as long as the tube ; leaves 

 linear, hairy; flowers small, scentless, rose-color with white dots, crenate. ® 

 — Fields, &c., Pennsylvania and E. Massachusetts. July. • — (Adv. from Eu.) 



D. Caeyophyllus, L., is the original of the Clove-Pink or Caesation, 

 &c. of the gardens. D. baebAtus is the Sweet-William or Bunch Pink. 



2. SAPONARIA, L. Soapwokt. 



Calyx tubular, terete and even, 5-toothed, naked at the base. Stamens 10. 

 Styles 2. Pod shoit-stalked, 1-celled, or partly 2-celled at the base, 4-toothed at 

 the apex. Enibryo coiled into a ring. — Flowers cymose-clustered. (Name 



