. 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. Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 6. Silene Menziesii Hook. ]\Ienzies' Pink. Fig. 1816. Silene Menaiesii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. I : go. pi. $0. 1830. Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely glandular- pubescent, 6'-i8' high. Leaves sessile, or the low- est narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate-lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acute or a
. 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. Botany. CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 6. Silene Menziesii Hook. ]\Ienzies' Pink. Fig. 1816. Silene Menaiesii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. I : go. pi. $0. 1830. Perennial, slender, ascending or decumbent, leafy, widely branching, minutely and densely glandular- pubescent, 6'-i8' high. Leaves sessile, or the low- est narrowed into a petiole, oval, ovate-lanceolate or slightly oblanceolate, acute or acuminate at each end, minutely ciliate on the margins, i'-2i' long; flowers axillary and terminal, numerous, slender- peduncled, white, 4"-5" long; petals 2-cleft, crown- less, longer than the 5-toothed calyx; capsule about the length of the calyx; seeds black, minutely tu- berculate. In damp soil, Assiniboia to western Nebraska, luri, British Columbia, California and New Me 4. LYCHNIS [Toiirn.] L. Sp. PI. 436. 1753. Herbs, mainly erect, some with the aspect of Silene. Calyx ovoid, tubular, or inflated, 5-toothed, lo-nerved. Petals 5, narrowly clawed, the blade entire, 2-cleft, or laciniate, gener- ally crowned. Stamens 10. Ovary i-celled or incompletely several-celled at the base) many- ovuled; styles 5, opposite the calyx-teeth (occasionally 4 or rarely even 3). Capsule dehis- cent by ID or fewer apical teeth or valves. [From the Greek, for lamp, in allusion to the flame-colored flowers of some species.] Df the in the and nperate A genus of about 35 spec: the following about 8 others species: Lychnis clialcedonica Calyx-teeth not twisted ; plants pubescent, glandular or glabrate. Flowers cymose or panicled ; calyx enlarged by the ripening pod. Fruiting calyx much enlarged, ovoid, obovoid or globose. Plants viscid-pubescent; flowers usually dioecious. Flowers white or pink, opening in the evening. Flowers red, opening in the morning. Plant roughish-pubescent: flowers
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