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ascending: leaves lanceolate to narrowly linear, scabrous, ciiiolate, 

 narrowed to a sessile base : flowers terminal on the branches : calyx 

 subcylindric or clavate even in fruit, 10 lines in length : petals bright 

 scarlet, 4-cleft or very rarely bifid : capsule oblong scarcely at all ovate, 

 commonly exserted at maturity. — Icon. vi. 44, t. 564; Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. xvii. t. 1444; Gray, PL Wright, ii. 17; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 x. 341. S. pulchra, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 675 in part. S. speciosa, 

 Paxt. Mag. of Bot. x. 219. S. simulans, Greene, Pitt. i. 63. Lychnis 

 pulchra, Cham. & Schlecht. Linuasa, v. 234. — Central California to 

 New Mexico. (Mex.) 



y "Var. G-reggii, Wats. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate, other- 

 wise not differing essentially from the type. ■ — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 

 341, & Bibl. Index, 108. S. Greggii, Gray, PL Wright, ii. 17. Melan- 

 dryum laciniatum, var. Greggii, Rohrb. Monog. Sil. 232. Melandryum 

 Greggii, Rohrb. Linnsea, xxxvi. 256. — New Mexico, Wright, Thur- 

 ber, Matthews ; Arizona, Buckminster, Lemmon. (Mex., Gregg.) 



S. Californica, Durand. Root simple, strong, penetrating verti- 

 cally to a depth of 2-3 feet : stems several, procumbent or suberect, 

 leafy : leaves lanceolate or ovate elliptic, more or less narrowed to the 

 base, acuminate, rarely obtusish : corolla more than an inch broad ; 

 petals variously cleft, most commonly with two broad lobes flanked by 

 two narrower ones : capsule ovoid, concealed until dehiscence by the 

 rather broad calyx. — PL Pratt. 83 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 64. 

 S. pulchra, Torr. & Gray, FL i. 675 in part. *S'. Virginica, Benth. 

 PL Hartw. 299. S. laciniata, var. Californica, Gray, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 vii. 146; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. S. Tilingi, Regel, Act. 

 Hort. Petrop. i. 99. Melandryum Calif or nicum, Rohrb. Linnaea, 

 xxxvi. 252. — Coast Mts. of Currie Co., Oregon (Howell), southward 

 through N. and Central California to Ft. Tejon (Xanthus), and per- 

 haps farther. Subject to much variation in foliage, the following being 

 perhaps the best marked of the varieties. 



Var. STlbcordata. Leaves ovate, suborbicular, shortly acuminate, 

 closely sessile by subcordate bases. — Blue Canon, Kellogg (1870), 

 Brandegee (1888). 



b. Corolla white or nearly so. 



S. "Wrightii, Gray. Very glutinous : rootstock thick, ligneous : 

 stems several, ascending, a foot or more in length, branching, leafy : 

 leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 1^-2 inches long, sessile ; the lower 

 attenuate below : calyx teeth filiform-attenuate, nearly half as long as 

 the tube : petals white, 4-cleft ; the lobes somewhat toothed : capsule 

 on a stipe of nearly its own length. — PL Wright, ii. 17; Wats. Bibl. 



