Caryophyllee—Lychuis. ve 
5. L. filgens.—A Siberian species from 1 to 2 feet high, 
with hairy stems and foliage, and relatively large bright scar- 
let flowers. This is a superb plant, and the varieties known 
under the name of L. Haagecdna are supposed to have sprung 
from across between this and the next. There are salmon, 
orange, red, scarlet, and white varieties. 
6. L. Siebéldi.—A Japanese species with immense creamy- 
white flowers. 
7. L. grandiflora.—a large red-flowered species. A native 
of China. A handsome plant, rarely seen in gardens now. 
8. L. Flos-ciculi. Ragged Robin.—This common wild 
flower, with deeply 4-lobed deep rose-coloured petals, has pro- 
duced a double variety which makes a handsome border plant. 
The flowers are occasionally seen white. 
9. L. Viscaria.—A dwarf species, and one of the older in- 
habitants of gardens. Stems clammy at the nodes, generally 
less than a foot high. Leaves narrow, lanceolate, on short 
petioles. Cymes few-flowered; flowers purple or red, nearly 
sessile. There is a handsome double variety. A native of 
Europe, including North Britain, and Siberia. 
10. LZ. alpina.—Another indigenous species. It is a moun- 
tain plant, growing in tufts about 6 inches high, and quite 
glabrous. Leaves crowded, linear-lanceolate. Flowers in 
dense heads, rose-coloured, six lines in diameter, on short 
peduncles with reddish bracts. 
L. ditwrna, Red Campion, and L. vespertina, White Cam- 
pion, are showy hedgerow plants. 
Triwe I.—ALSINE. 
Sepals free to the base. 
7. CERASTIUM. 
Decumbent densely hairy annual or perennial herbs with 
small white flowers and bifid petals. Forty species, natives of 
the temperate and cold parts of the whole world. Name from 
xépas, a horn, from the horn-like capsule. 
1. C. tomentdsum.—This is the species in general use for 
edging. Its small leaves are densely clothed with a greyish 
or nearly white tomentum. South of Europe. 
2. C. Bieberstéinit.—Asimilar but larger plant with less silvery 
leaves. A native of the Crimea. 
