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BOTANY. 
peduncles 2' long, naked ; petals ¥ long ; style short, clavate, minutely 
bearded at the gibbous summit ; stigma lateral. Discovered by Beckwith in 
Agate Pass of the Quartz Mountains, Nevada. 
CARYOPHYLLACE^. 
Saponaeia Vaccaria, L. ( Vaccaria vulgaris^ Host.) Introduced ; about 
the Mormon settlements in Utah, and thence westward to Reese Valley, 
Nevada. (146.) 
SiLENE ACAULis, L. Greenland and throughout Aixtic America to lati- 
tude 54° ; White Mountains, New Hampshire ; Rocky Mountains, Colorado ; 
Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, (Fremont.) In the Uintas, Utah, and 
East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ; 10-12,000 feet altitude; August. (147.) 
SiLENE DouGLASir, Hook. Minutely pubescent ; stems erect, very slen- 
der; leaves remote, narrowly oblanceolate, attenuated at each end; flowers few, 
or sometimes solitary, on slender opposite peduncles ; calyx oblong, at length 
inflated, abrupt at the base ; petals bifid. — Stems numerous from a perennial 
base, ^-2° high, simple; leaves 3-6 pairs, 1-2' long; petals light-pink; cap- 
sule with a long (1^") pubescent stipe ; seeds tuberculate-crested upon the 
margin. Collected by Douglas and Nuttall on the Oregon side of the Rocky 
Mountains, by Torrey and Brewer in the Sierra Nevada, and by Anderson 
near Carson City. Frequent in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and 
in the Wahsatch ; 7-9,000 feet altitude ; May-July. (148.) 
Var. (?) With stems more strict, leaves oblong-lanceolate, calyx cylin- 
drical and longer, (7-8",) and petals less deeply bifid. (149.) 
SiLENE ANTiREHiNA, L. From Canada to Florida and westward to the 
Pacific. Found on the foot-hills of the Wahsatch and around Salt Lake 
Valley. (150.) 
SiLENE Menziesii, Hook. Minutely glandular-pubescent ; stems numer- 
ous, dichotomously branched, (6-12' high,) weak, ascending, leafy to the sum- 
mit ; leaves crowded, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, acuminate, tapering to 
the base ; peduncles axillary and terminal, 1-flowered ; petals white, bifid, 
(3" long,) exceeding the obovate calyx ; styles bearded within.— From the 
Slave River to Oregon and southward to California and New Mexico. Found 
in the Truckee, Toyabe, and East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the 
Wahsatch; 6-7,000 feet altitude ; May-August. (151.) 
Lychnis apetala, L. {Melandryum, Fenzl.) Pubescent ; stem simple ; 
