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lanceolate, sessile: flowers very large, an inch or more in- diameter, 

 loosely cymose ; the central ones commonly nodding or reflexed alter 

 anthesis : calyx clavate or oblong, 8 lines in length, becoming obovate 

 in fruit : petals crimson; the blade broadly lanceolate, 2- (rarely 1-) 

 toothed at the apex. — Spec. 419 in part, not Willd.; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3342 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl.i. 192 ; Chapm. Fl. 51. S. < 'atesbcei, Walt. 

 Car. 142. S. coccinea, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 30fi. — Common in 

 open woods, on rocky hills, W. New York, S. AY. Ontario (ace. t<> 

 Macoun) to Minnesota (ace. to Upharri), southward to Georgia and 

 Arkansas. 



S. rotundifolia, Nutt. (Round-leaved Catchflt.) Viscid- 

 pubescent: stems weak, decumbent, branched: leaves rather large, 

 varying from broadly lanceolate to subrotund, rather abruptly pointed ; 

 the lower ones contracted at the base to winged petioles : flowers large, 

 showy, scattered or in loose cymes: calyx tubular, 10-13 lines in 

 length, abrupt at the base, becoming clavate but not obovate in fruit : 

 petals bright scarlet; the blade 8 lines in length, deeply bifid; the 

 lobes more or less toothed : seeds smaller, smoother, and darker col- 

 ored than in the preceding. — Gen. i. 288 ; Otth in D< '. Prodr. i. 383 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 192. Melandryum rotundifolium, Rohrb. Bionog 

 Sil. 234, & Linnaja, xxxvi. 257; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431. — S. 

 Ohio (ace. to Nuttall), Kentucky, and Tennessee, June to August. 

 ^ S. regia, Sims. (Royal Catciifly.) Viscid-glandular above, finely 

 pulverulent-pubescent below : stems tall, erect, rather rigid. Bimple or 

 sparingly branched, leafy : leaves ovate, acuminate, 3-7-nerved from 

 the rounded sessile base; the lowest more or less contracted below: 

 flowers showy, in a narrow oblong panicle: calyx cylindrical, 10—12 

 lines long, becoming somewhat spindle-shaped in fruit: petals spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, subentire, scarlet. — Bot. Map. t. 172 1; Sweet's Brit 

 Fl. Gard. new ser. t. 313; Torr. & Gray. Fl. i. 193T. & Virgin ca, 

 form, Michx. Fl. i. 272. Melandryum regium, A. Br. Flora, 1843, 

 372;' Rohrb. Linmea, xxxvi. 250.-- Prairies, Ohio to Alabama and 

 westward to Missouri, not abundant. 



*- h- Rocky Mountain and Pacific species. 

 ♦+ Flowers large, rather few, scattered: calyx cylindrical orclavate inantl 

 8-12 lines long: corolla (except, in S. Panshii) usually more than 1" lines 

 in breadth; petals 4-*-cleft, very rarely bifid : stems leafy. 

 = Seed-coat more or less roughened but tirm. 

 a. Corolla deep red. 

 S. laciniata, Cav. Finely pubescent: rool narrowly fusiform: 

 stems erect or decumbent, somewhat rigid, knotty below . the branches 



