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14. CAKYOPHYLLACEjE. 
15. MoENCHiA. Sep. 4, erect. Pet. 4, entire. Stam. 4. 
Caps, many-seeded, opening at the end with 8 or 10 teeth. 
Suborder III. POLYCARPE.E. 
Sep. distinct. Stam. free. Caps, sessile. Stipules scarious. 
16. PoLYCAEPON. Sep. keeled at the back, hooded at the 
end. Pet. 5, emarginate. Stam. 3 — 5. Styles 3, short. 
Fr. 1-celled, many-seeded. 
17. Spergulaeia. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, usually as long as 
the calyx. Stam. 5 — 10. Styles 3 or 5. Fr. 3— 5-valved, 
many-.seeded ; valves fewer than or alternate with the 
sepals. 
18. Spehgtjla. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, entire, as long as the calyx. 
Stam. 5 — 10. Styles 5. Fr. 5-valved, many-seeded : the 
valves opposite to the sepals. 
Suborder IV. SCLERANTHE^. 
Sep. connate, forming a hardened tube enclosing the 1-seeded 
capsule. No stipules. 
19. ScLEEANTHCs.' Tube of calyx vase-shaped, contracted 
at the mouth by a glandular ring ; limb 5-fid. Pet. 0. 
Stam. 10 or rarely 5, inserted in the throat of the calyx. 
Styles 2. Fr. membranous. 
Suborder I. Silenece. 
1. Dian'thus Linn. Pink. 
* Fl. clmtered. 
1. D. prdlifer (L.) ; y^. in a dense cluster enveloped in mem- 
branous bracts, ml. -scales meinhi'anous pellucid the two outer 
ones shorter mucronate, inner ones blunt about equalling the 
calyx, St. glabrous, 1. all linear, seeds boatshaped with a longi- 
tudinal membrane in the hollow rough pointed at one end. — 
E. B. 956. It. vi. 247.— St. 1— li ft. high, erect, usually simple. 
Fl. expanding one at a time, small. Pet. rose-coloured, 
obcordate. Cluster quite inclosed by brown dry scales. — Sandy 
and gravelly places, very rare. A. VII. E. 
1 Benth. & Hook. Gen. Plant, place Sdcranlkus in Illccebraceo', which order 
they include in the Division ^Innui-ldi'myiha. — U. & J. G. 
