. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PINK FAMILY the throat. Each petal has two tiny appendages at the point where the blade narrows to the claw, and the ten together make a minute corona which evidently guards the stamens until the pollen is mature. SWEET WILLIAM CATCHFLY SiUne armaria. Silene, Greek; referring to the sticky exudation on stem and calyx of several species, by which insects are often caught. Stem.—Twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves.—Opposite, ovate. Flowers. — Pink or white, in many- f
. Our garden flowers; a popular study of their native lands, their life histories, and their structural affiliations. Flowers. PINK FAMILY the throat. Each petal has two tiny appendages at the point where the blade narrows to the claw, and the ten together make a minute corona which evidently guards the stamens until the pollen is mature. SWEET WILLIAM CATCHFLY SiUne armaria. Silene, Greek; referring to the sticky exudation on stem and calyx of several species, by which insects are often caught. Stem.—Twelve to eighteen inches high. Leaves.—Opposite, ovate. Flowers. — Pink or white, in many- flowered terminal and axillary flat-topped panicles. Calyx.—Cylindrical, five-toothed. Petals.—Five, long-clawed; each blade with two appendages at its base. Stamens.—Ten. Ovary.—One-celled; styles three; seeds many. This is the Catchfly of old gardens, which still persists as an inheritance of the past, but has little to support it in competition with the flowers of the pres- ent. Though long in cultivation it is still weedy. The species now chiefly offered by the trade is Silene pendula var. compdcta, which is a dwarf upright form of a trailing primitive. It grows two or three inches high, forms cushion-mats a foot in diameter, and blooms profusely in early Sweet William Catchfly. SUhie armh'ia 138. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Keeler, Harriet L. (Harriet Louise), 1846-1921. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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