An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Cfni-s g. PINK FAMILY. 4. Dianthus barbatus L. Sweet William. Bunch or French Pink. Fig. 1833. Dianlhus barbatus L. Sp. PI. 409. 1753. Perennial, tufted, glabrous, stems erect, rather stout, i°-2° high, branching above or sometimes unbranched. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, lY-z' long, ^'-g' wide, acute or
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Cfni-s g. PINK FAMILY. 4. Dianthus barbatus L. Sweet William. Bunch or French Pink. Fig. 1833. Dianlhus barbatus L. Sp. PI. 409. 1753. Perennial, tufted, glabrous, stems erect, rather stout, i°-2° high, branching above or sometimes unbranched. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, lY-z' long, ^'-g' wide, acute or the basal ones oblong or obovate; bracts linear-filiform, about equalling the long-toothed calyx; flowers pink or whitish, in large terminal clusters. In waste places, escaped from gardens, occasional in the East- ern and Middle States. Introduced from Europe. Snow-flake. London-tuft or-pride. Sweet-johns. • Bloomy-down. Summer. Family 25. CERATOPHYLLACEAE A. Gray, Annf Lye. N. Y. 4: 41. 1837. Horn WORT Family. Submerged aquatics, with slender widely branching stems, and verticillate leaves, the monoecious or dioecious flowers solitary and sessile in the axils. Invo- lucre many-parted, the segments entire or toothed. Perianth none. Stamens numerous, crowded on a flat or convex receptacle; anthers sessile or nearly so, linear-oblong, cxtrorse, the connective prolonged into a thick appendage beyond the sacs. Pistillate flowers with a superior i-celled ovary; ovule i, orthotropous, pendulous; style filiform, stigmatic at the summit. Fruit an indehiscent nut or achene. Endosperm none; embryo composed of 4 verticillate oval cotyledons, with a short hypocotyl and a plumule of several nodes and leaves. The family contains only the following genus. I. CERATOPHYLLUM L. Sp. PI. 992. 1753. Leaves crowded in verticils, Unear or filiform, spinulose-serrulate, forked. Sterile flowers with 10-20 stamens, the anthers about as long as the involucre. Fertile and sterile flowers generally at
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