118 CARYOPHYLLE^. 



inflated, campanulate, I3 in. long, net-veined above ; teeth broad, obtuse : 

 petals brownish purple, 7 lines long ; claw naked ; limb shortly bifid ; 

 appendages oblong, entire : anthers not exserted : ovary narrowly 

 oblong. — Near Gold Lake and in Sierra Valley, Sierra Co. 



«• * Perennials ; erect, leafy only below the panicled or racemose 



inflorescence ; calyx oblong or clacate, never inflated. 



■i- Petals 4-paried or -cleft. 



10. S. laciiiiata, Cav. Icon. vi. 44. t. 564 (1801) ; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 

 1444. Lychnis pulchra, Ch. & Schl. Linnasa, v. 234 (1830). Pubescent 

 and viscid, erect or ascending, 1 — 2 ft. high : leaves narrowly oblanceolate 

 to linear, 2 — 3 in. long : ti. few or many, on elongated branches, 1 in. 

 broad, bright scarlet, the pedicels (3>^— 3 in. long) not reflexed in fruit : 

 petals deeply 4-cleft, the lobes linear, acute ; appendages ovate : capsule 

 oblong : seed strongly tuberculate on the back.- -From the vicinity of 

 Sacramento southward, but not common within our limits ; more preva- 

 lent in the southern counties. 



11. S. Leinmoni, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342 (1875). Only the 

 inflorescence viscid-pubenilent : slender stems erect, from a decum- 

 bent perennial branching base, 8 — 12 in. high, branched : leaves mostly 

 on the young shoots, oblong-lanceolate to spatulate, acute : fl. in an open 

 panicle, the slender pedicels erect or at length deflexed, % — % in. long : 

 calyx ovate-cylindric, ^i in. long ; teeth acutely triangular : petals rose- 

 color, 6—8 lines long ; blade broad, 4-cleft nearly to the base, the lobes 

 linear, entire or notched ; appendages lanceolate, entire ; claw villous : 

 ovary oblong. — Webber Lake Valley in the Sierra Nevada, Lemmon. 



12. S. CKliCideutalis, Wats. 1. c. 343. Often somewhat tomentose 

 below, glandular-puberulent above : stems stoutLsh, erect, 1 14, — 2 ft. 

 high, simple or branching : leaves oblanceolate, acute, more or less 

 ciliate at base, 2—4 in. long : fl. in an open panicle, erect or nodding on 

 slender pedicels ^3 l^o i^- lo^^g ■ calyx cylindrical, }b, in. long or more ; 

 teeth ovate, obtuse : petals larger, deep purple, 4-cleft into almost equal 

 lobes, or the lateral ones shorter ; appendages linear, entire, half as long 

 as the limb ; claw slightly villous, without auricles : filaments slightly 

 exserted : ovary oblong, I4 in. long, on a stipe as long.— Plumas Co. 



13. S. montana, W^ats. 1. c. Puberulent : stems slender, from a 

 decumbent branching perennial base, mostly simple, 1 ft. high : leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, l}i~2 in. long : panicle narrow ; fl. 

 erect, on short pedicels : calyx cylindrical. 9i in. long ; teeth oblong, 

 acutish : petals little exceeding the calyx, rose-color ; blade deeply 

 4-cleft into linear entire equal segments ; claw with basal auricles and 

 terminal appendages somewhat lacerate : capsule oblong, its stipe 2 

 lines long. — Sierra Co., and eastward in Nevada. 



