. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 516. Stellaria media. PINK FAMILY 355 cyme, peduncled, showy, 1^-2 in. broad; calyx bell-like, enlarged as pod matures: petals 2-cleft, crowned, bright crimson: stem viscid-pubescent. Open, dry woods. May to September. S. noctifldra, Linn. Night-flowering catchfly. Annual: lower leaves spatulate or obovate, the upper linear: flowers large, few, pedicelled, in loose panicle, opening at dusk for the night: very fragrant: calyx-tube elongated, noticeably veined, with awl-like teeth: petals 2-cl
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 516. Stellaria media. PINK FAMILY 355 cyme, peduncled, showy, 1^-2 in. broad; calyx bell-like, enlarged as pod matures: petals 2-cleft, crowned, bright crimson: stem viscid-pubescent. Open, dry woods. May to September. S. noctifldra, Linn. Night-flowering catchfly. Annual: lower leaves spatulate or obovate, the upper linear: flowers large, few, pedicelled, in loose panicle, opening at dusk for the night: very fragrant: calyx-tube elongated, noticeably veined, with awl-like teeth: petals 2-cleft; white, crowned. Weed introduced from Europe. July to September. 5. STELLARIA. Chickweed. Small, weak herbs with sepals 4-5, petals of equal number and deeply cleft or sometimes wanting; stamens 10 or less; styles usually 3: pod opening by twice as many valves as there are styles. S. media, Cyrill. Common chickweed. Fig. 457. & Little prostrate annual, making a mat in cultivated ,_£ grounds, with ovate or oblong leaves mostly on hairy petioles: flowers solitary, minute, white, the 2-parted petals shorter than the calyx, the peduncle elongating in fruit. Europe; very common. Blooms in cold weather. 6. CERASTIUM. Mouse-ear Chickweed. Differs from Stellaria chiefly in having 5 styles and pod splitting into twice as many valves. The two following gray herbs grow in lawns. From Europe. C. viscosum, Linn. Annual, about 6 in. high: leaves ovate to spatulate: flowers small, in close clusters, the petals shorter than the calyx, and the pedicels not longer than the acute sepals. C. vulgatum, Linn. Perennial and larger, clammy-hairy: leaves oblong: pedicels longer than the obtuse sepals, the flowers larger. XV. Crowfoot or Buttercup Family. Mostly herbs, with various habits and foliage: parts of the flower typically all present, free and distinct, but there are some apetalous and dioecious species: stamens many; pistils many or few, in the former case becoming ache
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