40 C A RYOPH YLLEyE. 
11. Malachium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, bifid or entire. Stam. 10. 
Styles 5. Caps, opening with 5 bifid valves. 
12. Arenaria. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, or slightly emargi- 
nate. Stam. 10. Styles 3. Caps, opening with 6 valves. 
Seeds numerous, with a naked hilum. 
13. Moehringia. Sep. 5. Pet. 4 — 5, entire or slightly emar- 
ginate. Stam. 8 or 10. Styles 2 — 3. Caps, opening with 
4 or 6 valves. Seeds numerous, with an appendage at the 
hilum. 
14. Alsinf.. Sep. 5 or 4. Pet. 5 or 4, entire or slightly 
emarginate. Stam. 10. Styles 3. Caps, opening with 3 
valves. Seeds numerous (or few A. peploides) with a naked 
hilum. 
15. Moenchia. Sep. 4, erect. Pet. 4, entire. Stam. 4. 
Caps, many-seeded, opening at the end with 8 teeth. 
16. Cekastium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, bifid. Stam. 10 or 5 or4. 
Styles 5 or 4. Caps, tubular, opening at the end with 10 
teeth. 
17- Cheuleria. Sep. 5. Pet. 0 or 5. Stam. 10, outer ones 
opposite to the sepals springing from an oblong emarginate 
glandular base. Styles 3. Caps. 3-valved. 
Suborder I. Sileneos. 
1. Dianthus Linn. 
* Fl. capitate or clustered. 
1, D. pmlifer (L.) ; fl. in a clustered head, involucral scales 
membranous pellucid the 2 outer ones shorter mucronate, inner 
ones obtuse about as long as the calyx, st. glabrous, 1. all linear, 
seeds boatshaped with a longitudinal membrane in the hollow 
rough pointed at one end. — E. B. 956. H. 5009. — St. I — 1| 
foot high, erect, usually simple. Fl. expanding one at a time, 
small. Pet. rose-coloured, obcordate. Whole head quite in- 
closed by brown dry scales. — D. diminutus (L.) is only a dwarf 
1 -flowered state of this plant. — In sandy and gravelly places, 
rare. A. VII. 
2. D. Armeria (L.) ; fl. aggregate tufted, involucral scales and 
bracts lahceolate-subulate downy herbaceous ribbed as long as 
the tube, st. downy, 1. linear downy, seeds nearly fiat one side 
slightly hollowed and with a longitudinal keel in its middle rough 
pointed at one end. E. B. 317. B. 5011.— St. 1 — 2 feet high, 
erect, branched. Pet. rose-coloured, speckled with white dots, 
creuate. — Waste places, rare. A. VII. VIII. Deptford Pink. E. 
** Fl. solitary or panicled. 
f3. D. plumarius (L.) ; st. 2 — 5-flowered, fl. solitary, in- 
