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 I. Saponaria officinalis L. Soapwort. Bouncing Bet. London Pride. Bruise-wort. Fig. 1828. Saponaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 408. 1753. Perennial, glabrous, erect, stout, sparingly branched, leafy. I'-a' high. Leaves ovate or oval, 2'-^' long, about i' wide, strongly 3-5-ribbed, acute, narrowed at the base into a broa
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 I. Saponaria officinalis L. Soapwort. Bouncing Bet. London Pride. Bruise-wort. Fig. 1828. Saponaria officinalis L. Sp. PI. 408. 1753. Perennial, glabrous, erect, stout, sparingly branched, leafy. I'-a' high. Leaves ovate or oval, 2'-^' long, about i' wide, strongly 3-5-ribbed, acute, narrowed at the base into a broad short petiole; flowers pink or whitish, about i' broad, in dense terminal corymbs, with numerous small lanceolate bracts or floral leaves; calyx tubular, 8'-io' long, faintly nerved, 5-toothed; petals obcordate with a scale at the base of the blade; pod narrowly oblong, shorter than the calyx. Roadsides and waste places, common in most districts and es- caped from gardens, spreading by underground stolons. Xatu- ralized from Europe. Flowers sometimes double. Summer. Called also Fuller's-herb. Boston-, chimney-, hedge- or old- maid's pink. Sheepweed. Soap-root. Soapwort-gentian. World's- wonder. Sweet-betty. Wild sweet-william. Lady-by-the-gate. Wood's-phlox. Mock-gilliflower. 8. VACCARIA Medic. Phil. Bot. i: 96. 1789. Annual glabrous and glaucous erect dichotomously branching herbs, with sessile clasping ovate or lanceolate acute leaves, and rather small red or pink slender-pedicelled flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx cylindric in flower, becoming sharply 5-angled and inflated in fruit, 5-toothed, not bracted at the base. .Petals much longer than the calyx, not appendaged. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Capsule 4-toothed. Seeds laterally attached ; embryo curved. [Latin, cow, in allusion to its value for fodder.] of Europe and Asia, the I. Vaccaria Vaccaria (L.) Britton. Cow- herb. Cockle. Fig. 1829. Saponaria Vaccaria L. Sp. PI. 409. 1753. Vaccaria vulgaris Host, Fl. Aust. I: 518. 182
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