. Farm weeds of Canada . NIGHT-FLOWERING CATCHFLYor STICKY COCKLE (Silene noc^iPlo^a /..I Plate 13. WHITE COCKLE(Lychnis alba. >/./ ) PLATE COCKLE, Lychnis alba. Mill. Other English names. Evening Lychnis, White Campion. Other Latin names : Lychnis vespertina, Sib.; L. dioica, L.; Silene pra-tensis, Gr^dr. and Gren. (Noxious: Dom.) Sparingly introduced in Ontario. Biennial or short-lived thick, sending up a few short barren shoots and long decumbentbranching flowering stems 1 to 2| feet high. Whole plant rather viscidhairy, not so much so as in the vSticky Cockl
. Farm weeds of Canada . NIGHT-FLOWERING CATCHFLYor STICKY COCKLE (Silene noc^iPlo^a /..I Plate 13. WHITE COCKLE(Lychnis alba. >/./ ) PLATE COCKLE, Lychnis alba. Mill. Other English names. Evening Lychnis, White Campion. Other Latin names : Lychnis vespertina, Sib.; L. dioica, L.; Silene pra-tensis, Gr^dr. and Gren. (Noxious: Dom.) Sparingly introduced in Ontario. Biennial or short-lived thick, sending up a few short barren shoots and long decumbentbranching flowering stems 1 to 2| feet high. Whole plant rather viscidhairy, not so much so as in the vSticky Cockle, which plant it resemblessomewhat, but is wider branching, has many stems, the leaves are largerand the flowers, which are much more numerous, are pure white, with amore conspicuous crown of short white scales around the centre; the maleand female flowers are on separate plants. Styles 5, not 3 as in StickyCockle, and the capsule has 10 teeth at the top instead of 6 as in thatspecies. When mature, the calyx containing the capsule is in the WhiteCockle much larger and more swollen; the seeds [
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