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mm. long, the teeth lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long ; petals white or lemon yellow, little exserted, deeply 

 4-cleft, the lobes narrowly linear-lanceolate or subulate, appendages truncate, irregularly toothed; 

 seeds crested with a double row of flattened tubercles. 



Open pine forests, Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; southern California, from the San Gabriel to the 

 San Jacinto Mountains. Type locality: San Bernardino Mountains, California. July-Sept. 



11. Silene campanulata S. Wats. Campanulate Campion. Fig. 1730. 



Silene campanulata S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 341. 1875. 



Perennial, glandular-puberulent, the stems several from the thick crown of the taproot, erect, 

 2-4 dm. high. Leaves oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, sessile, 2-3.5 cm. long; calyx broadly 

 campanulate, 1 cm. long, the teeth broad, very obtuse, 3-4 mm. long; petals greenish white or 

 flesh-colored, well exserted, 4-6-cleft, the segments rather deeply 2-cleft, appendages 4, the two 

 outer narrow and entire, the inner several-toothed, auricles broad ; capsule globose-ovoid, slightly 

 exceeding the calyx. 



Dry mountain slopes, Transition and Canadian Zones; Lane County, Oregon, south to Mendocino County, 

 California. Type locality: Red Mountain, Mendocino County, California. May-July. 



Silene campanulata var. Greenei S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 28: 137. 1893. (S. Greenei Howell, Fl. 

 N.W. Amer. 76. 1897; 5\ campanulata var. petrophila Jepson, Fl. Calif. 504. 1914.) Very finely and usually 

 densely pubescent, but not at all glandular or the inflorescence only scarcely so; leaves broadly ovate. Canyon- 

 ville, Douglas County, Oregon, to eastern Siskiyou and Shasta Counties, California. 



Silene campanulata var. orbiculata Robinson, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 219. 1897. Perhaps only a leaf 

 form of the preceding variety. The leaves are suborbicular and cordate-clasping. Trinity and Shasta Counties, 

 California. 



12. Silene Menziesii Hook. Menzies' Campion. Fig. 1731. 



Silene Menziesii Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1 : 90. pi. 30. 1830. 

 Silene stellarioides Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1 : 193. 1838. 

 Silene Dorrii Kellogg. Proc. Calif. Acad. 3: 33. /. 12. 1863. 

 Anotites Menziesii Greene, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 1: 98. 1905. 



Perennial with several rootstocks arising from a taproot, glandular-pubescent, the stems 

 several, erect, slender, dichotomously branched above, 1-3 dm. high. Leaves 2.5-5 cm. long, 

 oblanceolate to obovate, acute or short-acuminate, tapering to the base ; flowers many, on slender 

 pedicels in the axils of the upper reduced leaves ; calyx 5-7 mm. long, obovoid to oblong ; petals 

 white, narrowly fan-shaped, 2-cleft and with or without small lateral teeth, appendages minute 

 or wanting ; capsule equaling the calyx ; seeds minutely papillose-scabrous. 



Stream banks and mountain meadows, Transition and Canadian Zones; British Columbia to Saskatchewan, 

 southern California, New Mexico, and Missouri. Type locality: "North- West Coast of America. June-Aug. 



13. Silene Seelyi Morton & Thompson. Seely's Campion. Fig. 1732. 



Silene Seelyi Morton & Thompson, Torreya 33: 70. 1933. 



Perennial, the stems many, slender, 6-20 cm. high, glandular-puberulent. Leaves sessile, 

 ovate to lanceolate, 8-20 mm. long, glandular-puberulent and glandular-ciliolate ; flowers solitary 

 between the terminal pair of leaves or in the forks of the branches ; pedicels 1-2 cm. long, slender ; 

 calyx cylindric, glandular-puberulent, the tube 5 mm. long, green, inconspicuously 10-nerved, the 

 teeth triangular, acuminate, 2 mm. long; petals purple, 10-12 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate, bifid 

 or rarely entire, narrowly clawed, with 2 conspicuous scales at the base of the blade; ovary 

 short-stipitate, 6-valved. 



Rock crevices, Canadian Zone; vicinity of Mount Stuart, Chelan County, Washington. Type locality: 

 Nigger Creek, altitude 1,200 meters, Chelan County, Washington. June-Aug. 



14. Silene Lemmonii S. Wats. Lemmon's Campion. Fig. 1733. 



Silene Lemmonii S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 342. 1875. 

 Silene Palmeri S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 342. 1875. 

 Silene longistylis Engelm. Proc. Amer. Acad. 22: 469. 1887. 

 Silene defiexa Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 41 : 284. 1906. 



Perennial, with slender branching rootstocks arising from a taproot, puberulent and finely 

 glandular, the stems several, erect or decumbent, 15-35 cm. high. Leaves mostly basal, oblanceolate 

 to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, narrowed at the base; flowers in a loose, few-flowered 

 panicle, nodding in anthesis; calyx oblong, extended to obovoid in fruit, 6-10 mm long, scanous 

 between the green nerves, the alternating nerves broader and extending to the short triangular 

 teeth ; petals white to pale yellow or pink, 4-cleft, the segments elongated and narrowly linear, 

 entire, appendages erect, entire or lobed, claws woolly-pubescent ; stamens long-exserted. 



Open coniferous forests, Arid Transition Zone; Siskiyou Mountains, southern Oregon, to the Cuyamaca 

 Mountains, southern California. Type locality: Sierra County, California. June-Aug. 



15. Silene Bridgesii Rohrb. Bridges' Campion. Fig. 1734. 



Silene Bridgesii Rohrb. Ind. Sem. Hort. Berl. App. 2: 5. 1867. 

 Silene incompta A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 330. 1868. 



Perennial, glandular-pubescent, the stems erect, 3-8 dm. high, rather leafy, 1-4 arising from 

 the crown of a taproot. Leaves 2.5-7.5 cm. long, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 sessile ; inflorescence verticillately racemose or narrowly paniculate, the flowers nodding ; calyx 

 broadly cylindric, becoming obovoid in fruit, 9-13 mm. long, the teeth triangular-lanceolate, acute, 

 about one-fourth the length of the tube ; petals well exserted, white or tinged with purple, 2-clett 



