PINK FAMILY. Caryophyliaceae. 
Moss Campion. An attractive little dwarf, living only 
Cushion Pink in the high mountains. It has a long tap- 
Siléne acdulis root and many spreading stems, crowded 
<hr with tiny, stiff, pointed, dark-green leaves, 
Alpine regions forming close tufts, from six to twenty 
inches across, resembling cushions of 
harsh moss and spangled all over with pretty little flowers. 
They are less than half an inch across with a bell-shaped 
calyx and five bright pinkish-purple petals, occasionally 
white, with a ‘‘crown”’ of small scales. We find this brave 
little plant crouching on bleak mountain tops, blossoming 
gayly at the edge of the snows that never melt, in arctic 
alpine regions across the world, up to a height of thirteen 
thousand feet. Itis variable. There is a picture in Mrs. 
Henshaw’s Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada. 
Windmill Pink A rather inconspicuous ‘‘weed” from 
Siléne Anglica Europe, common in fields and along road- 
(S. Gallica) sides, with a slender, hairy stem, about a 
White 
foot tall, and hairy leaves. The small 
flowers grow in a one-sided cluster and 
have a purplish calyx, sticky and hairy, 
and white or pinkish petals, with a small “‘crown,”’ each 
petal twisted to one side like the sails of a windmill. This 
is widely distributed in nearly all warm temperate regions. 
Spring 
Northwest, etc. 
Tadian Pink From six inches to over a foot tall, with 
Silene Califérnica a thick, perennial tap-root, one to two 
Red feet long, and branching, half-erect stems, 
Summer 
both leaves and stems covered with fine 
down, the dull-green foliage contrasting 
well in color with the vivid vermilion of the gorgeous 
flowers. They are more than an inch across, the petals 
usually slashed into two broad lobes, flanked by two 
narrower, shorter points at the sides, the “‘crown”’ con- 
spicuous. The flowers are even more brilliant in color 
than S. Jaciniata and are startlingly beautiful, glowing 
like coals of fire on the brown forest floor, in the open 
mountain woods they usually frequent. It is widely 
distributed in the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada 
Mountains, but nowhere very common. SS. Hookeri has 
beautiful large pink flowers, often more than two inches 
across, sometimes white, and grows on shady hillsides in 
the Northwest, except in Idaho. ; 
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Northwest 

