Silene.] CARYOPHYLLE^. g9 



geniculis remotis. Folia opposlta, basi cincta et canlem vafl^inantia, lato- vel etiam lineari-Ianceolata, plana, 

 mag^s minusve obtusa, vel saepe acuminata, utrinque pubescentia, margine scabriuscula; inferiora majora, 

 nunc 3-4 iincias longa, basi in petiolum attenuata; superiora sensim minora, erecta, sessilia. Bractem ovato- 

 acuminatae. Flores subracemoso-spicati, ramis plerumque trifloris, oppositis, et ita verticillati videantur: 

 pedicellis bracteolatis. Calyx oblongo-clavatus basi abruptus, gland uloso-pubescens, apice 5-dentatus, 

 decem-striatus. Petala bifida, alba nunc rosea. Stamina stylique exserta.— C«/>5u/a anthophoro longo suf- 

 f\AisL, bifida, laciniis demum 3-dcntatis. 



Hab. Nortli-West coast of America. Mr, Menzies. Fort Vancouver. Dr. Scouler. Upon the low hills 



of the Columbia, and in the mountain vallies of the Spokan and Macgillivray Rivers. Douglas. This, affain, 



has long lain in the Herbaria of British Naturalists, without having, as far as I can ascertain, been takeu 

 up by any author. It exhibits, it must be confessed, a close affinity with S, viscosa; but it is smaller in all its 

 pai'ts, less viscid, with more remote pairs of leaves, with a shorter calyx, and a stem that is strikingly swollen 

 at the joints. It appears to be confined to the Columbia River, and its tributary streams; and although 

 approaching the Rocky Mountains, it was not found among them, either by Mr. Douglas or Mr. Drura- 

 mond. 



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Sect, IV. Stachymorpha. Otlh, MSS. Caulescentes, Flores spicati {vel racanosi) 



axillaresy non [ant rarius) oppositL Calyx lO-striatus, DC, 



6. S, Drummondii ; tota pubescenti-glandulosa viscida, caulibus erectis simplicibus 

 strictis, foliis remotis lineari-laiiceolatis, racemo laxo pauclfloro, pedicellis elongatis 

 plerumque alternis, calycibus oblongo-cylindraceis erectis. — S. nicjeensis, Cham, et Schlecht 

 in LinncBa, v. 1. 73. 41.? 



Radix perennis, crassiuscula. Caules simplices, erecti, strictissimi, teretes, pedalcs ad sesquipedalem, 

 ubique, ut ct tota plauta, praeter corollam, pubescenti-glandulosi, viscidi, superne prsecipue. Folia liueari- 

 lauceolata, radicalia latiora, in petiolum attenuata; caulina remota sursum sensim minora, opposita, basi 

 connata, uninervia. Flores pauci, 3-5 in racemum laxura, raro spicatum, strictissimum dispositi. Bractem 

 subulatce. PedicelU alterni, nunc, sed raro, oppositi, unciam sesquiunciam longi, simplices, nudi vel, nunc, 

 bibracteati. Calyx oblongo-cylindraceus, pubescenti-viscidus, 5-dentatus, dentibus parvis, striis decern viri- 

 dibus, demum, fructiferus, paulo latior, nunquam inflatus nee clavatus. Petala alba, parva, vix calyce longiora. 

 Capsula cylindracea, sessilis, calycis longitudine, apice 6-dentata. 



Hab. Plains of the Saskatchawan. Dr, Richardson; Dntmmond. Common on the derated, gravelly 

 soils near Fort Vancouver, and skirting the Blue Mountains. Douglas, — I am doubtful whether this species 

 should be referred to the division " Stachymorpha'''* or " Siphonomorpha''* of the Prodromus. It accords in 

 many respects with S, gallica of the former division, but it has the flower-stalks vastly more elongated, 

 sometimes opposite, and the calyx more cylindrical; while, on the other hand, it approaches very near to 

 the S. nicceemis in the latter division, but is far less glutinous, and never has clavate calyces, as in my speci- 

 mens of niciBensis from the south of France. Still I suspect it may be the Californian niccecnsis of Chamisso 

 and Schlechtendal, which those authors refer, doubtfully, to the plant of AUioni and De CandoUe. From both 

 the species now mentioned ours differs in its remarkably strict habit and small petals. 



Sect. V. Rupifhaga. Otth. MSS. Caulescentes. Caules strictl. Pedunculi Jiliformes, 



Calyces campanvlati vel cylindricL DC, 



7. S, Antirrhina ; glabra inferne pubescenti-scabriuscula, caule erecto valde ramoso, 

 foliis lanceolatis marginibus minute ciliato-scabris superioribus linearibus, floribus parvis 

 paniculatis, calycibus ovalibus glaberrimis, petalis obcordatis coronatis. — Linn, Sp, PI, p, 

 600. Dill HorL Elth. p, 422. t 313. Pitrsh, FL Am, v. 1. p. 310. Elliott, Carol, v. 1. p. 



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