. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. CARYOPHYLLACE^ 321 carnation, bouncing Bet, catchfly, chickweed, corn-cockle, lychnis, Bpurry. A. Flowers polypetalous, with sepals united into a tube. B. Bracts at tlie base of tbe calyx 1. Dianthus BB. No bracts at base of calyx. c. Styles 2 2. Saponaria CO. Styles 4 to 5 3. Lychnis ccc. Styles 3 4. Silene AA. Flowers often apetalous, the sepals nearly or quite distinct. B. Styles 3 or 4 5. ShUaria BB. Stjies 5 6. Cerastium 1. DIANTHUS. Pink. Showy-flowered small herbs, with striate, many-furrowed calyx and sepal-like bracts at its base: peta
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. CARYOPHYLLACE^ 321 carnation, bouncing Bet, catchfly, chickweed, corn-cockle, lychnis, Bpurry. A. Flowers polypetalous, with sepals united into a tube. B. Bracts at tlie base of tbe calyx 1. Dianthus BB. No bracts at base of calyx. c. Styles 2 2. Saponaria CO. Styles 4 to 5 3. Lychnis ccc. Styles 3 4. Silene AA. Flowers often apetalous, the sepals nearly or quite distinct. B. Styles 3 or 4 5. ShUaria BB. Stjies 5 6. Cerastium 1. DIANTHUS. Pink. Showy-flowered small herbs, with striate, many-furrowed calyx and sepal-like bracts at its base: petals with slender claws or bases, the limb usuafly toothed or fringed: styles 2. a. Flowers single on ends of branches. D. Chin^nsis, Linn. China or florists' pink. Leaves short-lanceolate, not Rrass-like: calyx-bracts linear-acute and as long as the calyx: petals in white and shades of red, very showy. China. Perennial, but grown as an annual (mostly under the florists' name D. Heddewigi). D. plum^rius, Linn. Grass or Scotch pink. Common pink of old gardens, from Europe. Low, growing in mats, glau- cous-blue : leaves grass-like : flowers very fragrant, deep- fringed, white or pink. Perennial. D. Caryophyllus, Linn. Carnation. Two ft. or more, with wiry stems, glaucous-blue : leaves grass like: calyx-bracts short and broad: petals more or less toothed but not fringed: flowers fragrant. Europe. aa. Flowers in compact clusters. D. barbitus, Linn. Sweet William. Fig. 456. One ft. /^-::^-^Z or more, erect, green: flowers small, in dense clusters in red/^" and white. Old World: common in old gardens. .-„ V. " 4o6. Diantlms 2. SAPONARIA. SOAPWORT. barbatus. Calyx cylindrical or angled, 5-toothed, with no bracts at its base: stamens i^: styles 2: pod 4-toothed at top (Fig. 250). S. oHicin&.lis, Linn. Bouncing Bet. Perennial, forming colonies in old yards and along roads, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous, with ovate or oval leaves: flowers 1 in. across, white or rose, in dense clus
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