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lanceolate, sessile : flowers very large, an inch or more in diameter, 

 loosely cyiuose ; the central ones commonly nodding or reflexed alter 

 anthesis : calyx clavate or oblong, 8 lines in length, becoming obovate 

 in fruit : petals crimson ; the blade broadly lanceolate, 2- (rarely 4-) 

 toothed at the apex. — Spec. 419 in part, not Willd. ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3342 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 192 ; Chapm. Fl. 51. S. Catesbcei, Walt. 

 Car. 142. S. coceinea, Moench, Meth, Suppl. 306. — Common in 

 open woods, on rocky hills, AV. New York, S. W. Ontario (ace. to 

 Macouii) to Minnesota (ace. to Uphani), southward to Georgia and 

 Arkansas. 



S. rotundifolia, Nutt. (Round-leaved Catchfly.) Viscid= 

 pubescent : stems weak, decumbent, branched : leaves rather large, 

 varying from broadly lanceolate to subrotnnd, rather abruptly pointed ; 

 the lower ones contracted at the base to winged petioles : flowers large, 

 showy, scattered or in loose cymes: calyx tubular, 10-13 lines in 

 length, abrupt at the base, becoming clavate but not obovate in fruit : 

 petals bright scarlet ; the blade 8 lines in length, deeply bifid ; the 

 lobes more or less toothed : seeds smaller, smoother, and darker col- 

 ored than in the preceding. — Gen. i. 288 ; Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 383 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 192. Melandryum rotundifolium, Eohrb. Monog. 

 Sil. 234, & Linnaea, xxxvi. 257; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431. — S. 

 Ohio (ace. to Nuttall), Kentucky, and Tennessee, June to August. 



S. regia, Sims. (Royal Catchfly.) Viscid-glandular above, finely 

 pulverulent-pubescent below : stems tall, erect, rather rigid, simple or 

 sparingly branched, leafy : leaves ovate, acuminate, 3-7-nerved from 

 the rounded sessile base ; the lowest more or less contracted below ; 

 flowers showy, in a narrow oblong panicle: calyx cylindrical, 10-12 

 lines long, becoming somewhat sjjindle-shaped in fruit : petals spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, subentire, scarlet. — Bot. Mag. t. 1724; Sweet's Brit. 

 Fl. Gard. new ser. t. 313; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 193. S. Virginica, 

 form, Michx. Fl. i. 272. Melandryum regium, A. Br. Flora, 1843, 

 372 ; Rohrb. Linnsea, xxxvi. 250. — Prairies, Ohio to Alabama and 

 westward to Missouri, not abundant. 



•I- -1- Rocky Mountain and Pacific species. 



■w Flowers large, rather few, scattered : calyx cylindrical or clavate in anthesis, 

 8-12 lines long: corolla (except in S. Panshii) usually more than 10 linea 

 in breadth ; petals 4-«:-cleft, very rarely bifid : stems leafy. 

 = Seed-coat more or less roughened but firm, 

 a. Corolla deep red. 



S. laciniata, Cav. Finely pubescent: root narrowly fusiform: 

 stems erect or decumbent, somewhat rigid, knotty below ; the branches 



