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Index, 110. Melandryum Wriglrfii, Rohrb. Liumea, xx.wi. 258; 

 Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431. — Mountain sides near the copper mines, 

 New Mexico, Wright (862). 



S. Hookeri, Nutt. Covered above with a fine grayish pubesci ni 

 root single, stout: stems several, short, slender, decumbent: leaves 

 oblanceolate, rather numerous and approximate, 2-3 inches in length, 

 acute or obtusish : flowers very large : calyx teeth acute, but nol lili- 

 form : petals 4-cleft, white or pink. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, FL i. 1 98 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. G051 ; FL d. Serres, t. 2093; Wats. Proa Am. Acad. x. 

 341; Brew. & Wats. I.e. i. G4. S. Bolanderi, Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 330, & viii. 378 ; Bolander, Cat. 6. Melandryum Hookeri, 

 and M. Bolanderi, Rohrb. 1. c. ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 131. — Wood- 

 lands, W. Oregon and N. W. California. 



= = Seed-coat vesicularly roughened, or crested. 



' S. Parishii, Wats. Grayish pubescent : root simple, thick, with 

 a branching rootstock : stems several, decumbent, a span long: leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 1-2 inches long ; the lower oblanceolate : 

 flowers aggregated at the ends of the branches : calyx tubular, narrowed 

 below, an inch long, with narrow subulate teeth 3-4 lines in length: 

 petals narrow, scarcely exserted from the calyx, cleft into 4 or more 

 filiform segments : seeds doubly crested with short vesicular hairs. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 366. — San Bernardino Mts., California, S. B 

 &; W. F. Parish. 



** ++ Flowers smaller, not ordinarily exceeding 6-8 lines in diameter. 



= Flowers borne in the forks of the branches forming a leafy inflorescence: 

 calyx oblong or campanulate: loaves lanceolate or ovate. 



- S. campanulata, Wats. Finely glandular-pubescent : rootthick, 

 simple: rootstock branching, somewhat woody : stem slender, erect, 

 leafy: leaves sessile, lanceolate : flowers on short deflexed peduncles: 

 calyx green, broadly campanulate, reticulate-veined, toothed nearly to 

 the middle: petals narrow; the limb cleft into 1 or more flesh-colored 

 segments : capsule globular, 3-4 lines in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 x. 341; Brew. & Wats. I.e. i. 63. — Mountainous districts ol V 

 California and S. Oregon. 



Var. (?) Greenei, Wats. bed. More pubescent throughout: 

 leaves ovate: petals greenish white. — Yreka, Calif., Greene, 

 ville and Wolf Creek. Oregon, Howell Brothers; Ashland, I 

 Henderson. Apparently the commoner form. 

 • S. Menziesii, Hook. Finely glandular-pubei 

 leafy, dichotomously branched above, 6 inches to a fool or mon in 



