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Index, 110. Mehmdryum Wrightii, Rolirb. Liunaja, xxxvi. 253; 

 Wats. Bot. Kiug Exp. 431. — Mountain sides near the copper mines, 

 New Mexico, Wright (862). 



S. Hookeri, Nutt. Covered above with a fine grayish pubescence: 

 root single, stout : stems several, short, slender, decumbent : leaves 

 oblanceolate, rather numerous and approximate, 2-3 inches in length, 

 acute or obtusish : flowers very large : calyx teeth acute, but not fili- 

 form : petals 4-cleft, white or pink. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 193 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6051 ; Fl. d. Serres, t. 2093 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 

 341 ; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. 64. S. Bolanderi, Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 330, & viii. 378 ; Bolander, Cat. 6. Melandryum Hookeri, 

 and M. Bolanderi^ Rohrb. 1. c. ; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431. — Wood- 

 lands, W. Oregon and N. W. California. 



= = Seed-coat vesicularly roughened, or crested. 



S. Parishii, Wats. Grayish pubescent : root simple, thick, with 

 a branching rootstock : stems several, decumbent, a span long : leaves 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 1-2 inches long ; the lower oblanceolate : 

 flowers aggregated at the ends of the branches : calyx tubular, narrowed 

 below, an inch long, with narrow subulate teeth 3-4 lines in length : 

 petals narrow, scarcely exserted from the calyx, cleft into 4 or more 

 filiform segments : seeds doubly crested with short vesicular hairs. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 366. — San Bernardino Mts., California, S. B. 

 Sf W. F. Parish. 



** ++ Flowers smaller, not ordinarily exceeding 6-8 lines in diameter. 



= Flowers borne in the forks of the branches forming a leafy inflorescence : 

 calyx oblong or campanulate : leaves lanceolate or ovate. 



S. Campanillata, Wats. Finely glandular-pubescent : root thick, 

 simple : rootstock branching, somewhat woody : stem slender, erect, 

 leafy : leaves sessile, lanceolate : flowers on short deflexed peduncles : 

 calyx green, broadly campanulate, reticulate-veined, toothed nearly to 

 the middle : petals narrow ; the limb cleft into 4 or more flesh-colored 

 segments : capsule globular, 3-4 lines in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 341; Brew. & Wats. I.e. i. 63. — Mountainous districts of N. 

 California and S. Oregon. 



Var. (?) Greenei, Wats. ined. More pubescent throughout: 

 leaves ovate : petals greenish white. — Yreka, Calif., Ch'eene ; Canon- 

 ville and Wolf Creek, Oregon, Hoivell Brothers ; Ashland, Oregon, 

 Henderson. Apparently the commoner form. 



S. Menziesii, Hook. Finely glandular-pubescent : stems weak, 

 leafy, dichotomously branched above, 6 inches to a foot or more in 



