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4-cleft into lanceolate segments ; the blade narrowed gradually into the 

 cuneate claw, the latter devoid of auricles ; appendages linear : capsule 

 oblong, upon a stipe 2 lines in length. — Proc. Am. Acad, x, 343 ; 

 Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. 64. — Calif., Bolander, without special locality ; 

 Plumas Co., Calif., Lemmon, Mrs. Austin; Butte Co., Mrs. Bidwell. 

 2. Petals bifid, each lobe sometimes bearing a very small lateral tooth. 



S. purpurata, Greene. " Stems numerous, from slender running 

 rootstocks, 6-1 8 inches high, rather slender : whole plant pubescent 

 and slightly viscid: leaves rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1^ 

 mches long : flowers in terminal and subterminal peduncled or sub- 

 sessile cymes of about 3 : calyx purple, rugose-veiny, clavate, not in- 

 flated, \ inch long or more ; limb of petals more than half as long, 

 white or pink, obcordate or bifid, appendaged at base." — This species, 

 not seen by the author, appears to be near S. Scouleri, Hook. The 

 description is drawn from Pittonia, ii. 229. — Porcupine River, interior 

 of N. Alaska, /. B. Turner. 



S. verecunda, Wats. Low, 6-12 inches in height, finely pubes- 

 cent below, glandular-viscid above : stems several, leafy especially near 

 the base : leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, acute :. 

 flowers rather few, mostly terminal or subterminal ; the branches of 

 the inflorescence erect : calyx soon becoming strongly obovate by the 

 development of the broad ovoid capsule : calyx teeth with membra- 

 nous ciliated margins : petals rose-colored ; the claw glabrous, narrowly 

 auricled ; the blade 2-cleft into short entire oblong segments ; appen- 

 dages oblong, blunt and somewhat toothed at the apex. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. X. 344 ; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. 65. S. Engelmanni, var. Sehrii., 

 Rohrb. Linn«a, xxxvi. 264. — Central California near the coast. Mis- 

 sion Dolores, San Francisco. 



S. Luisana, Wats. Taller, finely pubescent : stems several from 

 a branching caudex, erect, slender, viscid above : leaves narrowly oblan- 

 ceolate to linear, acute, most numerous at the base ; the cauline gradu- 

 ally reduced : flowers borne upon short spreading peduncles : fruiting 

 calyx clavate ; teeth long and narrow, with an incurved membranous 

 ciliated margin : petals white, with narrowly auricled glabrous claw, 

 and 2-cleft blade ; segments linear-oblong, entire or with a small lat- 

 eral tooth ; appendages lanceolate, often toothed : capsule cylindric. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad, xxiii. 261. — California, San Luis Obispo, J. G. ^ 

 S. A. Lemmon; near Tolon, Brandegee ; mountains south of Ft. 

 Tejon, Coville S^ Fanston, 



S. platyota, Wats. Minutely pubescent throughout, glandular 

 above : root thick : stems slender, \\ feet high : leaves oblanceolate, 



