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 PIXK FAMILY. 8. Lychnis Coronaria ( Desr. Mullein Pink. Fig. 1824. Mgrostemma Coronaria L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. Lychnis Coronaria Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3: 643. 1789. Perennial, densely white-woolly all over; stem stout, erect or ascending, simple or branched, i°-3° tall. Lower leaves spatulate, 2-4' long, 6'-l5' wi
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 PIXK FAMILY. 8. Lychnis Coronaria ( Desr. Mullein Pink. Fig. 1824. Mgrostemma Coronaria L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. Lychnis Coronaria Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3: 643. 1789. Perennial, densely white-woolly all over; stem stout, erect or ascending, simple or branched, i°-3° tall. Lower leaves spatulate, 2-4' long, 6'-l5' wide, narrowed into mar- gined petioles; upper leaves oblong or lanceo- late, sessile, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, the upper- most (bracts) usually small; flowers few, i' broad or more, long-pedicelled in open termi- nal panicles; calyx oblong-campanulate, its teeth filiform-subulate, twisted, shorter than the tube; petals crimson. Escaped from gardens to roadsides and waste- places, Maine to southern New York and Mich- igan and in Washington and Oregon, Xative of Europe. Also called Rose-campion. Gardener's- eye. Gardener's-delight. June-Aug. 5. GYPSOPHILA L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Annual or perennial, branching or diffuse, mostly glabrous and glaucous herbs, with nar- row leaves, and small numerous axillary or paniculate flowers. Calyx turbinate or campanu- late, s-toothed, s-nerved, bractless. Petals 5, entire or emarginate, their claws narrow. Sta- mens 10; styles 2. Capsule dehiscent by 4 valves extending to or below the middle Seeds reniform, laterally attached; embryo coiled. [Greek, in allusion to the supposed preference of some species for gypsum soils.] northern .'Africa. Type species: Cypsophila About 60 species, natives of Europe, Asii repens L. Annual, diffuse; leaves narrowly linear; flowers axillary on filiform peduncles. i. Erect perennial; leaves lanceolate ; flowers paniculate. 2. G. paniculala.
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