. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Vol. II. 16. Silene Menziesii Hook. Menzies' Pink. Fig. 1816. Silene Menziesii Hook. Fl. Bor, Am. i : 90. pi. 30, 1830, Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely glandular- pubescent, 6'-i8' high. Leaves sessile, or the low- est narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate-lanceolate or slightly oblanceol
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Vol. II. 16. Silene Menziesii Hook. Menzies' Pink. Fig. 1816. Silene Menziesii Hook. Fl. Bor, Am. i : 90. pi. 30, 1830, Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely glandular- pubescent, 6'-i8' high. Leaves sessile, or the low- est narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate-lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acute or acuminate at each end, minutely ciliate on the margins, i'-2i' long; flowers axillary and terminal, numerous, slender- pcduncled, white, 4"-S" long; petals 2-cleft, crown- less, longer than the 5-toothed calyx; capsule about the length of the calyx; seeds black, minutely tu- berculate. In damp soil, Assiniboia to western Nebraska, Mis- souri, British Columbia, California and New Mexico. June-Aug. 4. LYCHNIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. Herbs, mainly erect, some with the aspect of Silene. Calyx ovoid, tubular, or inflated, 5-toothed, lo-nerved. Petals S, narrowly clawed, the blade entire, 2-cleft, or laciniate, gener- ally crowned. Stamens 10. Ovary i-celled or incompletely several-celled at the basej many- ovuled; styles S, opposite the calyx-teeth (occasionally 4 or rarely even 3). Capsule dehis- cent by 10 or fewer apical teeth or valves. [From the Greek, for lamp, in allusion to the flame-colored flowers of some species.] A genus of about 35 species, natives of the north temperate and arctic zones. In addition to the following about 8 others occur in the northern and western parts of North America. Type species : Lychnis chalcedonica L, Calyx-teeth not twisted ; plants pubescent, glandular or glabrate. Flowers cymose or panicled ; calyx enlarged by the ripening pod. Fruiting calyx much enlarged, ovoid, obovoid or globose. Plants viscid-pul)escent; f
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