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acute, narrowed below to winged ciliated petioles : inflorescence 

 branched ; flowers borne singly, or in the stronger individuals some- 

 what fascicled at the ends of the branches : calyx clavate in fruit, with 

 broad green nerves ; teeth acutish with membranous ciliated margins : 

 mature capsule short, oblong, not exceeding 2 lines in diameter : the 

 petals greenish white or roseate ; claws villous toward the base, with 

 broad entire or toothed auricles above ; the blade bifid ; the short ob- 

 long lobes with or without small lateral teeth ; appendages lance- 

 oblong. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 366. — S. California, Cuyamaca Mts., 

 Palmer, Cleveland; San Bernardino Mts., Lemmon, Parish Bros., 

 Wright. San Jacinto Mts., Parish Bros. (Lower Calif.) A very 

 dwarf specimen apparently of this species from San Bernardino Mts., 

 11,000 ft. ( W. G. Wright), has purplish petals and a calyx with blunter 

 teeth and less prominent veins. 



S. Sargentii, Wats. Cespitose, minutely pubescent : stems nu- 

 merous, slender, erect, 6 inches high : leaves linear or nearly so, 1 to 

 nearly 2 inches long, a line or so in breadth ; the radical crowded, 

 covering the rootstock with their slightly enlarged and imbricated bases; 

 the cauline 2-3 pairs : calyx cylindrical, 7 lines long ; teeth short : the 

 petals white or pink ; the claws exserted, with broad laciniately cleft 

 auricles ; the blade short, obovate, bifid ; the segments each bearing a 

 small lateral tooth : capsule well stiped, cylindrical, and very slender, 

 at maturity scarcely more than a line in diameter : seeds tuberculate- 

 crested, smooth on the faces. — Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 290. — Table 

 Mountain, Monitor Eange, N. Nevada, C. S. Sargent. 



c. Calyx broader, oblong, campanulate or rarely obovate, rather loosely surround- 

 ing the ovary, sometimes narrowed downward but not distinctly contracted 

 about the carpophore. 



1. Petals divided into 4 nearly equal segments : appendages fringe-toothed. 



S. Bernardina, Wats. Covered with a fine grayish pubescence 

 below, finely glandular above : caudex branching : stems several, slen- 

 der, erect, 8-12 inches high, furrowed, 1-5-flowered : leaves grass-like, 

 narrowly linear, 1-nerved, acute : terminal flower developing first, the 

 lower ones borne upon branches H-2 inches long : buds acute : calyx 

 green-nerved ; the teeth lanceolate acutish, with membranous ciliated 

 margin : petals white with rather short blade ; the claw with broad 

 laciniate auricles ; appendages 4, long ; the inner ones broad and 

 toothed: capsule moderately stiped. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 82. — 

 On shady slopes, Long Meadow, Tulare Co., Calif., Palmer. 



