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ojiposite to the sep. and springing from an oblong emargi- 
nate glandular base. Styles and valves 3. 
** Valves of the caps, twice as many as the styles. 
11. Moehringia. Sep. 5. Pet 4— 5, entire or slightly emar- 
ginate. Stain. 8 or 10. Styles 2—3. Caps, ojiening with 
4 or (i valves. Seeds numerous, with an appendage at the 
hilum. 
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. Holosteum. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, toothed at the end. Stam. 
5 or 3 or 4. Styles .3. Caps, subcyhndrical, many-seeded, 
opening at the end with 6 teeth. 
14. Stellaria. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, bifid. Stam. 10. Styles 3. 
Caps, opening with (i valves or teeth, many-seeded. 
15. Moencuia. Sep. 4, erect. Pet. 4, entire. Stam. 4. 
Caps, many-seeded, opening at the end with 8 or 10 teeth. 
16. Malachium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, bifid or entue. Stam. 10. 
Styles 5. Caps, opening with 5 hifid valves. 
17- Cerastium. Sep. 5. Pet. 5, bifid. Stam. 10 or 5 or 4. 
Styles 5 or 4. Caps, tubular, opening at the end with 10 
teeth. 
Suborder I. Silenece. 
1 . Dianthus Li'jm. 
* FI. capitate or clustered. 
1. D. prolifer (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. R. 5009. — St. 1 — 1| ft. 
high, erect, usually simple. Fl. expanding one at a time, small. 
Pet. rose-coloured, obcordate. Head quite inclosed by brovm 
diy scales. — D. diminutus (L.) is only a dwarf 1 -flowered state of 
this plant. — Sandy and gravelly places, rare. A. VII. 
2. D. Armeria (h.) ; fl. aggregate tnftei, involucral scales and 
bracts lanceolate-subulate downy herbaceous ribbed as long as 
tlie tube, st. downy, 1. linear downy, seeds nearly flat one side 
slightly hollowed and with a longitudinal keel in its midtUe rough 
pointed at one end. — E. B. 317- R- 5011. — St. 1 — 2 feet high, 
erect, branched. Pet. rose-coloured, speckled with white dots, 
crenate. — Waste places, rare. A. VII. VIII. Deptford Pink. E. 
