98 LEAFLETS. 
*Species of the Pacific Coast; British Columbia to Cali- 
fornia. 
+ Pubescence retrorse. 
1. A. MENZIESII. Silene Menziesit, Hook. Fl. i. 90, t. 30. 
The several stems a foot high or more, firm, nearly upright, 
loosely leafy and not very many-flowered ` leaves oblanceolate to 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 14 to 2 inches long, the 
internodes as long; stem usually canescent below with a retrorse 
villous pubescence, this more sparse on the pedicels and branches 
of the cyme, and interspersed with short spreading gland-tipped 
hairs; both faces of foliage with a minute and short stiff pubes- 
cence mainly retrorse; pedicels an inch long, often not equalling 
the leaves; calyx delicately hirtellous, its triangular acute or 
acuminate teeth of more than one-fourth the length of the tube; 
lobes of the petals linear or oblong-linear, entire. 
British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, chiefly or alto- 
gether westward and along the seaboard, though there are spec- 
imens from Northern Idaho that must also be referred here. 
Nuttall’s Silene stellaroides may be distinct from this, but I can- 
not identify it by his description. 
2. A. LATIFOLIA. Plants evidently forming colonies through 
a system of superficially seated not slender rootstocks: stoutish 
stems only 6 or 8 inches high, very leafy and with a reduced 
and very leafy cyme: leaves 14 inches long and twice the length 
of the internodes, 3 inch broad above the middle, cuneate-obo- 
vate to oblong-obovate and broadly elliptical, cuspidately acute, 
loosely hirtellous beneath, above almost glabrous, margin runci- 
nate-ciliolate; stem retrorsely pubescent throughout, not even the 
pedicels with either spreading or glandular hairiness: the few 
slender pedicels not half the length of the leaves: calyx loosely 
villous, the oblong-obovate teeth obtusish. 
In woods at Yale, B. C. Macoun, 17 May, 1889. U.S. Herb. 
and Canad. Geol. Surv. n. 61,314. 
3. A. viscosa, Tufted stems ascending from a geniculate 
