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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol.XIII, No. 8, 
Vaccaria Medic. 
Annual herbs, glabrous, glaucous. Flowers in corymbed 
cymes; petals pale red and not crowned, longer than the calyx; 
calyx sharply 5-angled and inflated in fruit; sepals 5; stamens 10; 
styles 2. 
1 . Vaccaria vaccaria (L.) Britt Cow-herb. Annual, 20 to 
24 inches high; calyx 5-angled, enlarged and wing-angled in fruit; 
leaves ovate-lanceolate. Lake, Ashtabula. 
Dianthus. L. 
Stiff herbs. Leaves narrow; flowers terminal, solitary or 
cymose-paniculate, generally purple; calyx tubular, with several 
bracts at its base; sepals 5; petals 5, long clawed, dentate or 
crenatc; stamens 10; styles 2; capsule cylindric or oblong, stalked, , 
dehiscent by four or five short teeth at the summit. 
1. Leaves large, ovate-lanceolate or broadly lanceolate; 3 to 5 times as 
long as broad; flowers clustered; perennial. D. barbatus. 
1. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, linear, subulate; 8 to 12 times as long as 
broad. 2. 
2. Calyx densely pubescent; leaves 2 to 2p> inches long; flowers clustered; 
annual. D. armeria. 
2. Calyx glabrous or slightly pubescent. 3. 
3. Plants much branched; flowers solitary; perennial. D. delloides. 
3. Plants simple or with few erect branches; flowers in terminal heads, 
rarely solitary; annual. D. prolifera. 
1 . Dianthus prolifera L. Proliferous Pink. Annual, gla¬ 
brous, 6 to 12 inches high. Leaves few, linear and acute; flowers 
small, pink, arranged in terminal, oblong or obovoid heads; calyx 
concealed by bracts. Cuyahoga County. 
2. Dianthus armeria L. Deptford Pink. Annual, minutely 
pubescent, 12 to 20 inches high, with few erect branches. Leaves 
linear, about f inch wide, to 2^4 inches long; flowers ar¬ 
ranged in terminal clusters with lanceolate, subulate bracts, 
usually longer than the calyx; sepals very acute. Licking, Jef¬ 
ferson, Gallia. 
3. Dianthus deltoides L. Maiden Pink. Perennial, to S 
inches high. Leaves short, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or 
slightly pubescent; flowers pink or white, solitary, with toothed 
petals; bracts ovate and half as long as the tube. Lake County. 
4. Dianthus barbatus L. Sweet William. Tufted, glabrous 
and erect, l(i to 18 inches high. Leaves lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate; '2 l / 2 to 3 inches long, inch wide; bracts linear- 
filiform, about the same length as the sharp, pointed sepals; 
flowers pink or white or variegated, in large terminal clusters. 
Portage County. f 
