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not auriculate ; the limb deeply 4-cleft ; the segments entire or bifid: 

 seeds large for the genus, tuberculate, ash-colored at maturity. — Proc 

 Am. Acad. xi. 124; Brew. & Wats. 1. e. i. G5. — S. ( lalifornia, < lucamaca 

 ^Its., Palmer ; San Bernardino Mts., Parish ; San Rafael .Mi-., Ford. 



= = = Inflorescence as in the preceding : petals 2-clefl into linear segments : 

 styles very long, the exserted portion as long as the calyx. 



' S. Bridgesii, Rohrb. Pubescent and viscid : stems leafy, usually 

 simple up to the inflorescence, a foot or more in height: leav< - s< ssile, 

 lanceolate, acute, 1^-2 inches long: flowers slender-pedicelled, verti- 

 cillately racemose or somewhat paniculate, nodding: calyx narrowly 

 obloug or clavate in anthesis, broadly obovate in fruit ; the teeth acute ; 

 the principal nerves broad, green ; the commissural much narrower, 

 seldom anastomosing with the others : petals \-'\ inch long, consider- 

 ably exserted, white or purplish : seeds very large, finely tuberculate, 

 red. — App. Ind. Sem. Berol. 18G7, .">, & Alonog. Sil. 201 ; Wats. Proc, 

 Am. Acad. x. 342; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. GG. S. incompta, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 330= S. Engelmanni, Rohrb. Linnssa, xx.vvi. 

 2G4, is a form of the same species, differing from the type only in the 

 somewhat broader lobes of the petals and in the obtuse appends 



Yosemite Valley, Bridges, Gray; Mt. Bullion, Bolander ; Danah, 



Conqdon. A closely similar if not identical plant has been found l>y 

 Rattan on the Klamath River in N. California. 



_ _ _ = Flowers scattered, or variously paniculate : styles included or 



somewhat exserted, but not so long as in the preceding, 

 a. Fruiting calyx ovate, not contracted below, filled and distended by the BUD- 



sessile capsule. 



• S. Thurberi, Wats. Densely grayish-pubescent and glandular : 

 stems erect, 2 feet high, somewhat rigid, with ascending branches 

 leaves lanceolate, acute, contracted below, sessile. 2-1 inches Inn- 

 flowers small, rather numerous: calyx cylindric becoming narrowly 

 ovate, green-and-white striped, densely pubescent; the teeth Blender 

 with fimbriate laciniate margin : petals white, little exceeding the ca- 

 lyx; the claw rather broad with upwardly produ 1 auricles; blade 



bifid with short oblong lobes, each with a small lateral th ; appen- 

 dages oblong, obtuse : capsule narrowly ovoid, jcarcely Btiped : 

 tuberculate and distinctly crested. — Proc. Am. Acs I. K. 8 1 I. S. /</<- 

 cata, Wats. 1. c. xvii. 366. — Near Janos, S. W. New Mexico, Thurber; 

 peak south of Rucker Valley, Lemmon. (Mexico, Pringle. 



S. pectinata, Wats. Stems several, erect, I \ 2\ feel high : li 

 lanceolate or oblancenlate, acute or acuminate; th- lower lo>,-. taper- 

 ing into winged petioles; the u P1 >er ...ore or less reduced: nowen 



