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scurely reticulated according? to Hooker^ not at all so accordincf to Nuttall. 

 Petals (white, Hook.) pale red {Nxtt.). — On comparing the description of 

 Hooker with a specimen and notes communicated by Nuttall, no material 

 difference is observable, except in the points in which we have contrasted 

 the one with the other. But it does not appear that Hooker has seen the 

 living plant, and the color might be easily mistaken in dried specimens. 



§ 3. Plowers subracemose-spicate ; peduncles opposite. — Otites, Otih. 



7. S. Scouieri (Hook.) : somewhat viscid-pubescent ; stem simple, erect, 

 remotely leafy, with swollen nodes ; leaves lariceolate or linear-lanceolate, 

 plane; spike long ; flowejs erect; calyx oblong-clavate, 10-striate ; petals bi- 

 fid. Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. \. p. 88. 



Oregon, 'Douglas., Scouler, cf Nuttall ! N. W. Coast, Menzies— (T) or (5) 

 {H Dougl.) Stem solitary, 1-2 feet high. Petals white or rose-color. Sta- 

 mens and styles exserted. Near S. viscosa. Hook. — Lobes of the petals 

 emarginate. Nutt. mss. 



§ 4. Flowei's spicate or racemose, axillary., alternate : peduncles not op- 

 posite. — Stachymorpha, Otth. 



8. iS. qulnquevidnera (Linn.): villous; stem branching ; leaves oblong- 

 spatulate, obtuse, the uppermost linear; spike somewhat one-sided; calyx 

 very villous, with short teeth ; petals small ; lamina roundish, entire ; crown 

 hiM.~Eng. bot. t. 86 ; Michx. ! ft. 1. p. 272 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 515 ; DC. prodr. 

 Lp. 372. 



Sea-shore, Southern States. California, Douglas ! Introduced 1 June- 

 July.— (1) Stem 8-12 inches high, clothed with flat jointed hairs. Petals 

 pink or crimson, with the border pale. 



9. S. nocturna (lAxxn,'): s^em branching, hairy below; leaves pubescent, 

 ciliate at the base, the lower ones spatulate, the upper linear-lanceolate ; 

 spike one-sided, dense; flowers appressed ; calyx cylindrical, almost gla- 

 brous, reticulated between the ribs ; petals narrow, 2-parted. DC. I. c. — Pursh, 



Jl. \. p. 316 ; Torr.fl. 1. p. 450. S. Nicseensisl Cham, f Schlecht. I. c.l 

 Pennsylvania and Virginia (Pursh, Schweinitz). Introduced from Eu- 

 rope. — (i) Petals white, greenish beneath. 



10. 5f. Dritmmo7idii (Hook.) : glandular-pubescent and viscid ; stems 

 erect strict, simple ; leaves rcraote, linear-lanceolate ; raceme loose, few-flow- 

 ered, with the pedicels elongated and usually alternate ; calyx oblong-cylin- 

 drical, erect. Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 89, f in bot. Beechey, p. 135. S. 

 Nicaeensis? Cham. <f- Schlecht, I. c, fide Hook. 



Oregon and California. — U Stem 1-2 feet high. Flowers 3-.5, strict. 

 Petals white, scarcely longer tkan the calyx. Capsule sessile. Hook. 



§ 5. Stems strict: peduncles filiform : calyx campanulate or cylindrical. — 



Rupifraga, Otth. 



-'■ 11. S. Antirrhina (Linn.): glabrous; stem erect, simple or branching 

 above; leaves lanceolate, acute, upper ones linear, the margins minutely 

 ciliate-scabrous ; cyme few-flowered ; calyx ovate, smooth and shining ; 

 petals small, obcord'ate, slightly croAvned. — Dill. hort. Elth. p. 422, t. 213 ; 

 Pursh, ft. 1. p. 316 ; Honk. ! I. c. p. 89. 



Dry places, Canada! to Georgia, west to Oregon ! April-June. — (I) Stem 

 slender. 8-30 inches hiijh, puberulent or scabrous at the base, a portion of the 

 upper internodes usually viscid. Peduncles erect. Teeth of the calyx very 



