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Silene Californica Durand. Cawfornia. Pink. Stems from 

 creeping rootstocks, low, glandular. Leaves opposite, obovate or 

 rhomboid. Flower an inch or more in diameter on pedicels that 

 are deflexed in fruit. Petals 5, bright scarlet, the blades cut into 

 2 divisions which are generally toothed. Millwood, in shady 

 places. A beautiful and conspicuous plant when in bloom. 



Silene Watsoni Robinson. Perennial, matted at base ; stems 

 many, slender, 2-10 in. high. Leaves linear, 1-2 in. long, united 

 and clasping at base, lower ones pubescent, upper glandular. 

 Flowers solitary at the ends of the branchlets. Calyx tubular, 

 membranous, between the greenish-purple ribs, becoming inflated, 

 glandular ; divisions short, obtuse, with broad, membranous mar- 

 gins. Petals but little longer than the calyx, white or rose-color, 

 the blades bifid, each segment usually with a tooth on the side ; 

 appendages in the throat obtuse. Above timber line in the amphi- 

 theatre above East Lake and on the trail to University Peak, col- 

 lected only by Miss Catherine E. Wilson 



Silene Lemmoni Watson. Matted at base from a tap-root. 

 Leaves on radical shoots, crowded, obovate to spatulate, acute, 

 tapering to short margined petioles, clothed with a rough, 

 somewhat hoary pubescence ; stem leaves narrowed, dimin- 

 ishing upwards. Stems slender, weak, paniculately branching, 

 glandular, hairy, a foot or so high. Flowers at first pendent, 

 on pedicels that bend about the middle, later becoming erect, 

 almost half an inch long. Calyx membranous, veined with 

 green, becoming inflated, very glandular, hairy, with rounded, 

 membranously-margined divisions. Petals white, blades divided 

 into 4 thread-like segments ; appendages in the throat linear. 

 Stamens and styles long, exserted. Millwood and Converse Basin. 



Silene Menziesii Hook. Perennial, stems man}', weak and 

 slender, clothed with a fine, glandular pubescence. Leaves 

 obovate, shortly pointed at apex, tapering at base, shortly petio- 

 late or sessile, thin, bright green. Flowers axillary in the upper 

 axils on long, slender pedicels ; calyx becoming urn-shaped, % in. 

 long, narrowly-membranous on the margins, of the short, trian- 

 gular acute teeth. Petals white, with 2-cleft blades, longer than 

 the calyx ; styles about as long. Bubbs Creek. 



There are some other forms of Silene^ of which not sufficient 

 material was collected for satisfactory determination. 



Stellaria longipes Goldie. Perennial, with many slender 

 stems from running roots, slender, erect, about 6 in. high, 

 cymosely panicled above. Leaves liuear-lanceolate, pointed, 

 sessil*;, crowded at the base, shining on the lower surface, ^ in. 



