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what caulescent form, with very slender elongated leaves 1-1 i inches 



in length, has been found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, 3Iiss 



Eastwood, and Arizona, Rothrock. It is connected, however, with the 



typical form by gradual transitions. 



* * * Caulescent perennials. 

 -1- Eastern and Southern species. 

 ■M- Calyx inflated, flowers white or pink, scattered or panicled. 



S. CucuBALUS, Wibel. (Bladder Campion.) Glaucous : stems 

 ascending, a foot or more in height, leafy below, smooth or somewhat 

 rough-pubescent : leaves opposite, usually lanceolate, acute : bracts 

 much smaller : flowers polygamo-dioecious . calyx campanulate to sub- 

 globose, strongly inflated, glabrous, finely reticulated .between the incon- 

 spicuous nerves : petals narrow, 2-cleft, scarcely crowned, white or pink. 

 — Prim. Fl. Werth. 241 ; Rohrb. 1. c. 84 ; Gray's Man. ed. 6, 84. *S'. 

 injiata, Smith, Fl. Brit. ii. 467 ; Gray's Man. ed. 5, 89 ; Warming, Bot. 

 Foren. Festskr. 1890, 258. Cucubalus Behen, L. Spec. 414. — Fields 

 and roadsides. New Brunswick to Illinois. (Nat. from Europe.) 



S. nivea, Otth. Stem smooth or minutely pubescent above, 1^3 

 feet in height : leaves opposite, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, smooth 

 or pulverulent-pubescent : flowers rather few, nodding, borne in the 

 forks of the branches : bracts foliar ; calyx oblong in anthesis, fine- 

 pubescent or smooth ; nerves inconspicuous, anastomosing, the teeth 

 short, triangular, obtuse ; petals cuneate-obovate, bearing two short 

 blunt appendages. — Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 377 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 

 190; Rohrb. 1. c. 87. S. alba, Muhl. Cat. 45 (nomen subnudum). 

 Cucubalus niveus, Nutt. Gen. i. 287. — Pennsylvania and Washing- 

 ton, D. C, to S. Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota ; i-are. 



S. stellata, Ait. (Starry Campion.; Stems 2-3 feet high : leaves 

 in whorls of 4 (the lowest sometimes opposite), ovate-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, 2-3 inches long, half as broad : flowers in an open panicle : 

 calyx campanulate, 4-5 lines in length ; the teeth broad, acuminate : 

 petals laciuiately cleft, unappendaged. — Kew. ed. 2, iii. 84 ; Torr. Fl. 

 N. Y. i. 100, t. 16. Cucubalus sfellatus, L. Spec. 414; Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1107. — Woodland, frequent, S. New England to Minnesota, 

 southward to Virginia and Texas. 



** ++ Calyx not inflated, distended only by the enlarging capsule. 

 = Flowers white or rose-colored. 



S. ovata, PuRSH. Pubescent or smooth : stems several from the 

 same root, 2-4 feet in height ; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, attenu- 

 ate-acuminate, 3-5 nerved from the rounded base, sessile, subconnate, 

 3-5 inches long : flowers borne in a narrow terminal leafless panicle : 



