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interior saline plaints, those of the former being usually obovate, of the latter linear 

 to oblong-ohlanceolate. Our specimens belong to the interior form, and their stems, 

 as well as those of all similar specimens in the. National Herbarium, are erect, never 

 creeping, as is often or perhaps commonly true of the coast form. 



CARYOFHYLLACEiE. 



Silene californica Durand, PL Pratt. 83 (1855). Type locality, "hills of Deer 

 Creek," California. 



In the southern Sierra Nevada (No. 1091). 



Silene bemardina Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. xxiv. 82 (1889). Typo locality, "on 

 shady slopes in Long Meadow, Tulare Co., California." 



Near Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1649). This lias been previously col- 

 lected only by Dr. Edward Palmer, in 1888, from whose specimens the species was 

 described." The stems grow many together, from nearly erect slender rootstocks 

 arising from a thick vertical root. The dense leaves are usually not more than 

 limn, broad and never, either in the type or in our specimens, broader than 2 mm. 



Silene luisana Wats. Troc. Amer. Acad, xxiii. 2G1 (1888). Type locality, "on 

 rocks near San Luis Obispo," California. 



Tejon Mountains (No. 1185). Determined by Sorono Watson. Dr. Watson writes 

 me, "I take your Silene to be S. Luisana. * * * It is a better specimen than any 

 I have; the leaves broader, less glandular below, and peduncles somewhat longer; 

 but it is otherwise the same thing, and it is from near the same region." 



Lychnis californica Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 248 (1877). Type localities, 

 "in the high Sierra Nevada; near Ebbett's Pass, on Mount Dana, and in Sierra or 

 Plumas County," California. 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1532). 



Alsine baicalensis. 



Stellaria umltcllata Turcz. El. Baic. i. 23G (1842-45). The use of the name Alrine 

 vmbdlafa for this species is prevented by the employment of that binomial by 

 Lamarck, in 1778, for Ilolostvum ttmbeUatum. 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1570), and in the White Mountains (No. 1805). 



Alsine longipes (Goldie) Edinb. Phil. Jour. vi. 327 (1822), under Stellaria. Type 

 locality, "woods near Lake Ontario," on the Canadian side. 



In the Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1435, 1674), and the White Mountains (No. 1805). 



Alsine media L. Sp, PI. i. 272 (1753). Type locality European. 



Near Three Pi vers (No. 1291). 



Arenaria compacta Covillo, Proc, Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. C7 (1892). Type locality 

 as given below. iaik v . 



"Steins compacted into a dense mat from a thick, woody, many-branched candex, 

 the densely leafy lower portion 1cm. or less high; dowering stems scantily leafy, 

 sparingly cymoscly branched, 5 cm. or less high, clothed with short glandular hairs; 

 leaves awl-shaped, triangular in cross-section, pungent, glandular-ciliate, 5 mm. or 

 less long, sqnarrose; those of the ilowering stems similar, usually glandular-hairy 

 on the back, erect, passing into scarious bracts above; flowers single, terminating 

 simple stems, or in open few-ilowered cymes; sepals 5, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, scarious-margined, with a thick green midrib excurrent into a 

 point; petals 5 or 6, oblong-oblanceolate, broadly obtuse; stamens 10 to 12; styles 



3 or 4. 



"Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium, No. 1053, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected August 20, 1891, at timber-line on a divide northwest of Whit- 

 ney Meadows, Sierra Nevada, Tulare County, California, by Frederick V. Coville. 



