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branched at the summit; leaves lanceolate, 1-1 5^ inches long, acute or 

 acuminate ; flowers solitary or few, on short defiexed pedicels ; calyx 

 campanulate, 5-6 lines long, the teeth broad, obtuse or acutish, and 

 finely net-veined ; petals pale flesh-color, 9 lines long, with pubescent 

 scarcely auriculate claws, the limb 4-parted nearly to the base, the 

 lobes bifid to the middle, or the lateral ones entire or notched ; appen- 

 dages oblong, fleshy, entire ; filaments pubescent, exserted ; ovary 

 suborbicular, shortly stipitate. — Collected on Red Mountain, Men- 

 docino County, California, by Bolander (n. G517) and Kellogg. 



81LENE Lyallii. Glabrous excepting the inflorescence, which is 

 subglanduhir-puberulent; stems slender, ascending; leaves linear-oblan- 

 ceolate, 1-2 inches long, the lower attenuate to a slender petiole ; 

 flowers in dichotomous few-flowered cymes, the slender pedicels 3-4 

 lines long, not deflexed ; calyx 4 lines long, campanulate, net-veined 

 above, the teeth obtuse, broadly triangular ; petals 7 lines long, 

 brownish jiurple, with an oblong shortly bifid limb, oblong entire 

 appendages, and naked scarcely auricled claw ; anthers purple, in- 

 cluded ; styles very short ; ovary small, narrowly oblong. — Collected 

 by Lyall in the Cascade Mts. in 1859, and by Lemmou (n. IG) in 

 Sierra County, California. 



Sil.ENE Lemmoni. Glabrous or puberulent, the inflorescence glan- 

 dular-puberulent ; stems erect from a decumbent perennial base, slen- 

 der, 8-12 inches high, branched; leaves mostly on young shoots, 

 spatulate to oblong-lanceolate, an inch long, acute ; flowers in an open 

 dichotomous panicle, erect or at length deflexed, on slender pedicels 

 4-9 lines long ; calyx ovate-cylindric, 4 lines long, net-veined along 

 the main nerves, the teeth acutely triangular ; petals rose-color, Q-8 

 lines long, the broad limb 4-parted nearly to the base, with linear 

 entire or notched lobes, the lanceolate appendages entire, and the 

 villous claw narrowly auricled ; ovary oblong, shortly stipitate. — 



19. S. Bridgesii, Rohrb. Petals white, very narrow, the claw scarcely 

 auricled, and lobes narrowly linear; styles very long exserted. — Yosemite 

 Valley. 



c. Inflorescence similar, but flowers more numerous and usually somewhat 

 crowded ; stout, erect, and glandular. 



20. S. ScouLERi, Hook. Glandular above ; leaves narrow ; calyx teeth net- 

 veined ; petals conspicuous, the broad bifid limb with notched lobes and appen- 

 dages; capsule long-stipitate. — Colorado to Oregon. 



21. S. Spaldingh. Viscidly pubescent; leaves numerous, lanceolate ; calyx 

 wholly net-veined ; petals with a broad claw, a sliort obtuse notched limb, and 4 

 short distinct appendages; capsule short-stipitate. — Central Idaho. See p. 344. 



