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4-cleft into lanceolate segments ; the blade narrowed gradually into the 

 cuneate claw, the latter devoid of auricles; appendages linear: capi 

 oblong, upon a stipe 2 lines in length. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 848; 

 Brew. & Wats. I.e. i. 64. — Calif., Bolander, without Bpecial locality; 

 Plumas Co., Calif., Lemmon, Mrs. Austin; Butte Co., Mrs. Bidwell. 

 2. Petals bifid, each lobe sometimes bearing a very small lateral tooth. 



S. purpurata, Greene. '• Stems numerous, from Blender running 

 rootstocks, 6-l.s inches high, rather slender : whole plant pubescent 

 and slightly viscid : leaves rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, \\ 

 inches long: flowers in terminal and subterminal peduncled <>r Bub- 

 sessile cymes of about 3: calyx purple, rugose-veiny, clavate, not in- 

 flated, \ inch long or more; limb of petals more than hall as long, 

 white or pink, obcordate or bifid, appendaged at base." — This 

 not seen by the author, appears to be near S. Scouleri, Hook. The 

 description is drawn from Pittonia, ii. 229. — Porcupine River, interior 

 of N. Alaska, J. H. Turner. 



S. verecunda, Wats. Low, G-12 inches in height, finely pul 

 cent below, glandular-viscid above: stems several, leaf) especially I 

 the base: leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, acute 

 flowers rather few, mostly terminal or subterminal : the branches 

 the inflorescence erect: calyx soon becoming strongly obovate by the 

 development of the broad ovoid capsule : calyx teeth with membra- 

 nous ciliated margins : petals rose-colored ; the claw glabrous, narrowly 

 auricled ; the blade 2-cleft into short entire oblong segments; appen- 

 dages oblong, blunt and somewhat toothed at the apex. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. x. 344 ; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. 65. aS. Engelmanni, var. Behrii, 

 Rohrb. Linnaea, xxxvi. 264. — Central California near the coast, Mis- 

 sion Dolores, San Francisco. 



S. Luisana, Wats. Taller, finely pubescent : stems Beveral from 

 a branching caudex, erect, slender, viscid above : leaves narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate to linear, acute, most numerous at the base ; the cauline gradu- 

 ally reduced : flowers borne upon short spreading peduncles: fruiting 

 calyx clavate ; teeth long and narrow, with an incurved membranous 

 ciliated margin : petals white, with narrowly auricled glabroi 

 and 2-cleft blade ; segments linear-oblong, entire or witli a small lit- 

 eral tooth ; appendages lanceolate, often toothed : capsule >\ lind 

 Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii. 261. — California. San Luis Obispo, / G 

 S. A. Lemmon; near Tolon, Brandegee ; mountains Bouth of 

 Tejon, Coville Sf Funston. 



S. platyota, Wats. Minutely pubescent througl t, glandular 



above: root thick : stems slender, 1 \ feel high: l< blanceol 



