. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 2. VISCARIA [Rivin.] Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. Ed. 2, 2: 37, 275. 1812. Perennial or biennial glabrous herbs, with erect, nearly or quite simple stems, and nar- row leaves, the basal densely tufted, those of the stem sessile, and small red to rarely white flowers in clustered terminal cymes, the inflorescence in our species almost capitate. Calyx oblong-cam
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 2. VISCARIA [Rivin.] Roehl. Deutsch. Fl. Ed. 2, 2: 37, 275. 1812. Perennial or biennial glabrous herbs, with erect, nearly or quite simple stems, and nar- row leaves, the basal densely tufted, those of the stem sessile, and small red to rarely white flowers in clustered terminal cymes, the inflorescence in our species almost capitate. Calyx oblong-campanulate, not inflated, 4-5-toothed, 8-lo-ribbed. Petals 4 or 5. much exceeding the calyx, each with a 2-cleft appendage at the base of the obovate emarginate blade. Stamens 10, exserted. Styles opposite the calyx-teeth, alternate with the petals. Capsule several-celled at the base, its teeth as many as the styles. [Latin, glutinous.] About 5 species, the following of arctic and subarctic regions; the others European and Asiatic. Type species : Viscaria vulgaris Roehl. I. Viscaria alpina ( L.) G. Don. Red Alpine Cam- pion. Fig. 1800. Lychnis alpi„a L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. Viscaiia alfina G. Don, Gen. Syst. i : 415- 1831. Tufted, 3-12' high, rather stout, glabrous, somewhat glaucous, not viscid. Basal leaves narrowly oblanceolate or linear, densely rosulate, i'-iV long, l"-2" wide; stem- leaves distant, linear-lanceolate, erect, acute or obtuse, about i' long; inflorescence dense, terminal, J'-i' broad; bracts small, membranous; flowers pink, 3"-4" wide; calyx campanulate, 2" long, its teeth short, rounded; petals about twice the length of the calyx, obovate, 2-lobed; appendages minute. Mt. Alliert, Gaspc, Quebec: Labrador, Newfoundland Hud- son Bay, Greenland, and in arctic and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer. 3. SILENE L. Sp. PI. 416. 1753. Annual or perennial herbs, with cymose or solitary, mainly pink, red or white flowers. Calyx more or less inflated
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