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oblong-ovate, equally 10-ribbed: flowers cymose-paniculate : petals 
pink or red, cleft to below the middle into 4 linear acute segments. — 
Spec. 436. Coronaria Flos-cuculi, A. Br. Flora, 1848, 368. — Moist 
fields, New Brunswick, New England, and New York. 
§ 2. Viscarta, Rohl. (as genus). Calyx not inflated; the teeth 
not twisted: ovary septate at the base: the teeth of the capsule as 
many as the styles. — Deutschl. FI. ed. 2, ii. 37; Endl. Gen. 973. 
L. alpina, L. Smooth, biennial or perennial, erect, 2 inches to 
a foot in height: leaves numerous, clustered at the base, linear or 
oblong, thickish; the cauline 2-4 pairs, erect or ascending: flowers 
small, the densely clustered cymes forming a terminal head : bracts 
conspicuous, membranaceous, tipped with red: calyx short-campan- 
ulate or turbinate, membranaceous, scarcely nerved ; the teeth bright 
red: petals pink, bifid; segments linear. — Spec. 436; Torr. & Gray, 
Fl.i.194; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 307; Wats. l. c. 246. Lychnis 
Suecica, Lodd. Cab. 881.— Greenland to Labrador, and Mt. Albert, 
Quebec, Allen, Macoun. (Europe.) 
§ 3. Acrostemma, Fenzl. (Coronaria § PsrUDAGROSTEMMA, 
A. Br.) Calyx teeth filiform, twisted: flowers few, large: petals 
with conspicuous awl-shaped appendages: teeth of the capsule as 
many as the styles: plant woolly. — Endl. Gen. 974. 
L. Coronarra, Desrousseaux. (MuLiern Pink.) Covered with 
dense white wool throughout: stem 14-3 feet high: leaves oval or 
oblong : calyx ovoid; the alternating ribs more prominent ; the teeth 
small, much shorter than the tube: petals large, crimson. — Desr. 
sy Lam. Dict. iii. 648. Agrostemma Coronaria, L. Spec. 436. Coro- 
naria tomentosa, A. Br. Flora, 1843, 368.— A handsome plant, tend- 
ing to escape from cultivation in several localities in New England 
and the Middle States. (Europe.) 
7. AGROSTEMMA, L. Corn Cocxts. (Name from dypés, 
field, and oréupa, crown.) —A genus of two species, both natives of the 
Mediterranean region; one of them, growing in cultivated fields, now 
®osmopolitan, having been widely disseminated in grain seed. — Gen. 
n. 379 ; rat 1. ¢, 70. Githago, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. 266; Baill. 
Hist. des Pl. ix. 108. Lychnis § Githago, DC. Prodr. i. 387; Benth. 
© Hook. Gen. i. 148. — Although often united with Lychnis, these 
Species through the different relative position of the carpels and petals 
seem to deserve rank as a separate genus, especially if Sagina is to 
be kept distinct from Arenaria upon the same ground. 
A. Gitnago, L. Annual or biennial, covered with a long, silky, 
appressed or spreading pubescence: stem 14-3 feet high, somewhat | = 
