PINK FAMILY. Caryophyllaceae. 



A slender perennial, also adventive 

 Ragged Robin from Europe, found in old gardens. The 

 Flower plant is downy below, and slightly sticky 



Lychnis Flos- above, the leaves slender lance-shaped 

 citcitli above, and few, but blunt lance-shaped be- 



low. The pink, or crimson, or light violet 

 June 80 " petals of the ragged-looking flowers are 



September deeply cut into four lobes each, the two 

 lateral lobes very small. Fertilized in 

 great measure by bees and butterflies, the bumblebee, 

 perhaps, the most frequent visitor. 1-2 feet high. Com- 

 mon in wet and waste ground, from Me., south to N. J., 

 and southwest to Penn. 



A tiny annual widely branched and 

 Thyme-leaved , , ,. , . _, 



Sandwort rough-downy, naturalized from Europe : 



Aretiuria with small ovate leaves and miniature 



serphullifolia white flowers, the sepals of which are 



White rather long, and rough. 2-8 inches high. 



May-August ~ . , , 



Common in dry sandy places everywhere. 



Another similar tiny, dainty plant, but 

 Mountain with arctic proclivities, having much 



Mountain larger flowers with translucent white 



Daisy petals notched at the tip. The crowding 



Arenaria leaves are linear and threadlike, the plant 



Grcenlandica g rows i n a dense tuft from the root, in 

 June-*Aueust crev i ces of rocks. 2-5 inches high. On 

 Mt. Washington and the higher peaks of 

 N. Y., Penn., Va., and N. Car. Also on river banks at 

 Bath, Me., and on Mt. Desert Island, and near Middle- 

 town, Conn. On Mt. Washington, where it is called 

 the " Mountain Daisy," it snuggles close to the rocks in 

 sheltered situations, but holds its own, almost, if not 

 quite alone, on the highest points of the bleak Presi- 

 dential range, from 5000 to 6290 feet above tide- water, 

 where snow lasts during eight months of the year. 



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