202 Karl M. Wiegand and Arthur J. Eames 



Elm St., Ithaca, 1915-1921, distributed over a considerable area and apparently 

 established. 



Native of Eu. Escaped from cultivation. 



[L. Flos-cuculi L. 



This species appeared in a lawn on Cayuga Heights in 1919.] 



2. L. CHALCEDONICA L. SCARLET LYCHNIS. 



Roadsides ; rare. June-Sept. 



Bank by street-railroad tracks, The Knoll, Ithaca; Forest Home. [Also on a rocky 

 wild bank in the narrows along the outlet of Cayuta Lake.] 

 Native of Japan. Escaped from cultivation. 



3. L. alba Mill. (L. vespertina of Cayuga Fl.) White Campion. 



A weed in gravelly waste places, with little reference to lime content of the soil ; 

 frequent. June-July. 



Inlet Valley, near Coy Glen ; C. U. campus, in several places ; "Fiske-McGraw 

 [Chi Psi] grounds, west of the spring, 1884 and 1885" (£>.), the first record of its 

 occurrence in this flora ; Cayuga Heights, in several places ; and elsewhere. 



N. S. to Mich., southw. to N. Y. and Penn. Naturalized from Eu. 



9. Silene L. 



a. Calyx not inflated except by the enlarging capsule, longitudinally ribbed; leaves 



opposite ; annuals. 



b. Plant glabrous or nearly so, a part of each internode glutinous ; flowers pink. 



c. Leaves linear-lanceolate ; calyx ovoid ; plant tall, slender and wiry ; flowers 



paniculate. 1. S. antirrhina 



c. Leaves ovate-lanceolate; calyx clavate; plant low, stouter; flowers corymbose. 



2. S. Armeria 

 b. Plant glandular-pubescent, stout; flowers white or cream color. 



c. Flowers racemose and secund on the primary branches of the inflorescence ; 

 styles much exserted ; calyx 12-15 mm. long. 3. 5". dichotoma 



c. Flowers in an open cyme; styles scarcely exserted; calyx 20-23 mm. long. 



4. S. noctiflora 

 a. Calyx more or less inflated, papery, obscurely ribbed but with a network of 

 delicate veins ; perennials. 

 b. Leaves whorled; petals fringed; calyx campanulate-funnel-form; plant puberu- 



lent. 5. S. stellata 



b. Leaves opposite ; petals not fringed, obcordate ; calyx subglobose ; plant glabrous, 



glaucous. 6. S. latifolia 



1. S. antirrhina L. Sleepy Catchfly. 



Open dry gravelly, chiefly neutral, soils ; frequent. May 15-June. 



N. w. of Enfield Falls; junction of Inlet and Enfield Creek; near mouth of Enfield 

 Glen; railroad ballast n. e. of Buttermilk Falls; railroad s. of Ithaca (£>.) ; flats 

 near C. U. boathouse; C. U. campus; Cascadilla woods, abundant, 1885 (D.) ; near 

 Esty Glen; near McKinneys (D.). 



Me. to B. C, southw. to Fla. and Mex., including the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 



The early rarity of this species in the Cayuga Lake Basin and its recent increase 

 in frequency suggest that it may not be native here. 



2. S. Armeria L. 



"Ithaca, by road south-east of steamboat landing [junction of Cascadilla Creek and 

 Inlet], July, 1885. Near Six Mile Cr. by Cayuga St." (D.) ; not seen since. 

 N. B. and Ont. to Mich., southw. to N. J. and Pa. Introduced from Eu. 



