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12c. Silene douglasii multicaulis (NuM.) Robinson, Pioc. Am. Acad. 28: 144. 1893. 



Silene in iiUica uUs N nit; Torn & Gr. Fl. 1: 192. 1S3S. 



Type locality: "Woods from the west side of the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific." 

 Collected by Nuttall. 



Range: British Columbia to Oregon and Montanii. 



Specimens examined: Wenache, Whited 141, 1146; Ellensburg, Elmer 415; Spokane, 

 Henderson, July, 1892; Ramm, July, 1883; Spokane County, Sulcsdoif 250; Kreager 97; 

 Blue Mountains, Piper 2402; without locality, Vasey in 1889; Yakiu?a region, Brandegee 

 655 (doubtfully referred here, the plant being viscid throughout); Rattlesnake Mountains, 

 Cotton 676. 



Zonal distribution: Arid Transition. 



13. Silene macounii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 26: 124. 1891. 



? Silene hjall'd S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 342. 1875. 



Silene douglasii macounii Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 144. 1893. 



Silene douglasii macrocalyx Robinson, op. cit. 145, in part. 



Silene douglasii msclda, Robinson, loc. cit. 



Silene tetragyna Suksdorf, Deutsch. Bot. Monatss. 16: 212. 1898. 



Type locality: "Summit of the Rocky Mountains, British Columbia." Collected by 

 Macoun. 



liANCiE: British Columbia to Oregon. 



Specimens examined: Olympic Mountains, Piper 2237, 917; Loomis, Elmer 579; 

 Skagit Pass, Lake <& Hull 489; Peshastin, Saiulberg & Leiherg 529; Mount Stuart, Elmer 

 1178; Sandberg cfc Leiherg 817; Cascade Mountains, latitude 49°, Lyall in 1860; Mount 

 Adams, Sul'sdorf 2434, 2435; Mount Rainier, Piper 622, 2119, 2109; Smith 936; Skamania 

 County, Suksdorf, 1851 ; without locality, Vasey in 1889. 



Zonal distribution: Arctic. 



Piper no. 622 is referred by Doctor Robinsona to Silene watsonii, Ijut this seems to me an 

 error. Better material collected later in the same place is certainl}- jS'. macounii vSmith's 

 936, once referred doubtfully 6 to S. grayii, is the same thing. 



Silene armeria L. is occasionally encountered as a garden escape. Silene hooJceri Nutt., 

 included in Sukdorf's list, probably does not occur north of the Columbia River. 



LYCHNIS. 



Herbage white-tomentose; calyx-teeth twisted 1. L. coronaria. 



Herbage green, glandidar-pubescent ; calyx-teeth not twisted 2. L. drummondii. 



1. Lychnis coronaria Desr. in Lam. Encycl. 3: 643. 1789. 

 Type locality: European. 



Specimens examined: Mount Carlton, Kreager 144; Seattle, Piper in 1889. 

 A European species sometimes escaping from gardens and persisting. 



2. Lychnis drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats. Bot. King Explor. 37, 432. 1872. 

 Silene drummondii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 89. 1830. 



Type locality: "Plains of the Saskatchewan." Collected by Richardson and by 

 Drummond. 



Hooker gives further: "Common on the elevated, gravelly soils, near Fort Vancouver, 

 and skirting the Blue Mountains. Douglas." As this species has not been collected in 

 Washington or Oregon since Douglas's time, it is almost certain that there js some error 

 in connection \vitli Hooker's note. 



oProc. Am. Acad. 28: 143. 1893; Gray, Syn. Fl. 1: 222. 1897. 

 b Proc. Am. Acad. loc. cit. 



