96 NEW YORK STATE MUSE I \! 



Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, variable in size, the lower ones 

 often spatulate. Flowers white, two-thirds to seven-eighths of an inch 

 broad, in loose cymose panicles, often drooping; calyx tubular-campanulate, 

 becoming globose and much inflated, about one-half of an inch long, strongly 

 veined, with five triangular, acute lobes; petals five, each two-cleft, with or 

 without a small crown. 



In fields, meadows and waste places, New Hampshire to Ontario, 

 New Jersey and Missouri. Native of Europe and naturalized in this 

 country. Flowering in July and August. 



Wild Pink 



Silene caroliniana Walter 



Plate 53 



Densely tufted and perennial from a stout root, 4 to 10 inches high, 

 viscid-pubescent, especially above, often glabrous below. Basal and lower 

 leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, pointed or blunt, 2 to 4 inches long; stem 

 leaves sessile, shorter, oblong or lanceolate. Flowers pink, about 1 inch 

 broad, in terminal cymes. Calyx narrow and tubular, much enlarged by 

 the ripening pod, its teeth ovate, pointed ; petals cuneate, emarginate, eroded 

 or finely toothed at the apex, crowned at the base of the claw. 



In dry. sandy or rocky soil, Maine to Georgia, west to central New 

 York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. 



Cuckoo-flower; Ragged Robin 



Lychnis flos-cuculi Linnaeus 



Plate 54a 



Stems slender, erect, 1 to 2 feet high, simple or branching, from a 

 thick, perennial root, downy-pubescent below, slightly viscid above. Lower 

 and basal leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long; upper leaves 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, opposite and sessile, the uppermost leaves 

 reduced to small bracts; flowers pink, purplish, blue, or white, three- 

 fourths to 1 inch broad, in many-flowered panicles at the summit of the 



