Silene Firginica W.! sp. pl. II, 70% et herb. 26661, 
Rafnesgne in litt. ex Otib in DC. prodr. IT, 383; non T.. nec 
Beuth, 
Silene Pennsilvanica Mehx.! #. Am. bor. I, 292%. 
Silene cheiranthoides Poir. dict. VII, 176 ex deseriptione, 
false ad speciem priorem numerata. 
Silene incarnata Lodd. Cab. 41. 
Silene platypetala Otth in DC, prodr. 1, 383. 
"Silene rubicunda Dietr. in Allg. Gartenzig. IH, 1835, 
196 ? (biloba dienntur petala, ceteris autem natis huc speetat.) 
Melandryum Pennsilvanicum (Mochx.) Rohrb. monogr, 
Sit. 233. 
le. Bot. reg. TI, 247!; Lodd. Cab. 41!; A. Gray Gen. 
115! 
Hab. in montibns Amerieae horealis (W. herb. 86661, 
Parsh!, Mebx.!, al,!), 2 Canada (?) ad Georgiam usque: 
Massachnsets (Robhins!), Pennsilvania (Adams!), Kentucky 
(Hook.h, Carolina (hb. berol.!) 
“ 
49, 35. Californicum (Dur.) Rohrb. 
Canlis erectus paullum ramosus vel simplex, eum foliis 
hirtello- pubescens suhviseidus; folia lanecolata vel ovata acn- 
tinsealn dense ciliata, superiora et hracteae sensim minora; 
flores longe pedicellati; calyx infundihuliformi - elnvatus fructi- 
fer ampliatas ovatus, dense pubescens, striis viridibus anasto- 
mosantibas, dentibus ovato-ohlengis obtusis albo-marginatis 
eiliatis; petala purpurea, unguihas ciliolatis paullum exsertis, 
bipartita Jobis bifidis, segmentis bidentatis integrisve, capsula 
ovata earpophorun guafer quinquiesve superans, seminn 
magna dorso faciebusque plana tuberculata. 
Silene Galifornica Durando in Philadelph. Journ. 11, 83, 
Torrey Pacif. Rayle Road Expl. IV, 69 exel. syn. plur. -- 24. 
