THE WHITE CAMPION 



LYCHNIS VESPERTINA 



A CINDERELLA among plants. All day long 

 the White Campion stands in the bright 

 summer sunshine as rather a httle drab of a plant. 

 A foot, or maybe two, high, its main stem branches 







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a, sepals, b, petal, c, stamens, d, styles, ovary, i, fruit. 



but shghtly, and its leaves, of a long oval tapering 

 at both ends — ^more so at the tip than at the base 

 — are of simple outline, and stand in pairs, some- 

 what sparsely, at intervals along the stalks. It is 

 often roughish with short hairs, and its few colourless 



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