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Descriptive Flora 



Cerastium longipedimculahim Muhl. Powder-horn. 



Slender stemmed plants, 2 to 12" high, with sticky stems, 

 forked branching, tiny white flowers and slender membranous 

 pods, y% or less long, containing many small seeds, that make 

 them look like an old-fashioned powder horn. Stem leaves oppo- 

 site. Blades oblong, linear-oblong, or lanceolate, % to 2" long, 

 entire. Flowers white, less than 14" across. Sepals 5, fully one- 

 third shorter than the petals. Petals 5, white, deeply notched 

 at their tips. Stamens usually 10, of two lengths. Stigma 5- 

 lobed. Pods when ripe resemble a slender, 10-toothed, mem- 

 branous, straw-colored tubular corolla, long or less. Seeds 

 many, very small, filling about one-third of the pod. February 

 to July. Low, moist ground, especially river bottoms and creek 

 banks. Genus has its origin in the Gr. kerastion, little horn, 

 from the pods. 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Pink Family. In Small's Flora. 



Silene antirrhina L. Sleepy Catchfly. 



Tall, slender plants with sticky, jointed stems. Leaves oppo- 

 site. Blades entire, linear to lanceolate, occurring in pairs alter- 

 nately along the stem. Flowers small, pinkish or white, in loose 

 branching clusters. The pale green, ribbed, five-toothed, greatly 

 swollen calyx is the most distinguishable part of the flower. 

 Petals inconspicuous, deeply notched, pink or white at the tip. 

 The sticky joints often entangle insects. March to June. In 

 fields and pastures. 



RANUNCULACEAE. Crowfoot Family. 



Delphinium oarolinianum Walt. Larkspur. Delphinium. 



"Espuela del caballero" 

 Early blossoming plants with short, tapering tuberous roots 

 and big spires of sky blue spurred flowers. Leaves broad, often 

 rounded in outline, a few basal, the others (also few) alternate 

 on the stem. Leaf blades broad, deeply cut into narrow-toothed 



