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in the mountain districts. Flowers of a rather dull greenish white and 

 very strictly vespertine. 



* * Pereaniah ; leafy Ihroaghoui, usually loir. 



5. S. Meiiziesii, Hook. Fl. i. 99. t. 30 (1830) : S. Dorrii, Kell. Proc. 

 Calif. Acad. iii. 14. tig. 12 (1863). Stems numerous, slender, decumbent, 

 dichotomous, branching freely, % — 1 ft. high ; herbage glandular- 

 puberulent : leaves ovate-lanceolate or -oblong, acute at each end, 1 — 2 

 in. long : peduncles lateral and terminal, equalling the leaves, 1-flowered : 

 petals white, 3—4 lines long, equalling the ovate calyx, bifid, unappend- 

 aged : capsule ovate-oblong : seeds nearly black, tuberculate. — Dry 

 woods of the Sierra Nevada, from Mono Lake northward. A small- 

 flowered species, somewhat resembling an Arenaria, and the corolla not 

 vespertine. 



6. S. Hookeri, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 193 (1838) ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 605] : S. Bolanden, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 330 (1865). Hoary- 

 pubescent, 3 -10 in. high, very slender : leaves 1 — 2 in. long, spatulate, 

 acute : fl. few, large, erect, on pedicels IJ^g ^^- loug : calyx % in.: petals 

 twice as long, pale pink or white, the broad claw ciliate below, the blade 

 cut into 4-6 lanceolate or linear entire or bifid segments ; appendages 

 lanceolate, decurrent upon the claw. — From Mendocino and Plumas 

 counties northward, on hillsides in the wooded country. 



7. S. Californica, Durand, PI. Pratt. 83 (1855). Puberulent and more 

 or less glandular, 4 in. to 4 ft. high, simple or sparingly branched above : 

 leaves ovate to oblanceolate, l}^ — 4 in. long, acute or acuminate : fl. 

 large, on short pedicels : calyx 7-10 lines long: petals scarlet, deeply 

 parted, the segments bifid, their lobes 2 — 3-toothed or entire, often with 

 a linear lateral tooth; appendages oblong-lanceolate: capsule J^ in. long, 

 ovate, short-stipitate. — From Placer and Mendocino counties southward 

 in the mountains perhaps throughout the State. 



8. S. cainpanulata, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341 (1875). Glandular- 

 puberulent, ^2 — 1/2 ft. high, dichotomously branched above : leaves 

 lanceolate, acute, 1 — 1^4 in. long : fl. on short deflexed pedicels : calyx 

 inflated, campanulate, J^ in. long, rather deeply lobed, the lobes broad, 

 obtxise or acutish, finely net-veined : petals % in. long, pale flesh color 

 or greenish ; claw pubescent ; limb 4-parted nearly to the base, the lobes 

 bifid to the middle or the lateral ones entire or merely notched ; append- 

 ages oblong, entire, fleshy : filaments pubescent, exserted : ovary sub- 

 globose, short-stipitate. — In the Coast Eange from Mendocino Co. 

 northward. 



9. S. Lyallii, Wats. 1. c. Stems slender, ascending ; herbage glabrous, 

 the inflorescence puberulent: leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 1 — 2 in. 

 long : fl. few, in a dichotomous cyme, the slender pedicels erect : calyx 



