120 CARYOPHYLLE.E. 



capsule obloug-ovate, long-stipitate : seeds strongly tuberculate on the 

 back. — In the Sierra, from Donner Lake northward. 



19. S. Brid§:esii, Rohrb. Ind. Sem. Berol. (1867) & Monogr. Sil. 204 

 (1868). Finely pubescent below, viscid above r stems erect, slender, 

 simple, 1 ft. high or taller ; leaves narrowly oblanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, 1 — 2 in. long : fi. racemose, on slender spreading pedicels 

 3 — 6 lines long : calyx oblong-cylindric, 4 5 lines long ; teeth narrow, 

 acute : the white narrow bifid petals % in. long ; lobes narrowly 

 linear ; appendages very small : styles long : capsule ovate. — Yosemite. 



20. S. verecuiida, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 334 (1875) : ,S'. Engel- 

 mannii, var. Behru, Rohrb. in Linn^ea, xxxvi. 264 (1869). Pubescent and 

 viscid throughout : stems clustered, ^3— l^a ft. high, erect or decumbent : 

 leaves oblanceolate, acute, 1—2 in. long : fl. few, erect, on stoutish 

 pedicels % — 1 in. long : calyx oblong-cylindric, ).^' in. long ; teeth 

 triangular, acutish : petals ^4 in. long, rose-color : limb bifid to the 

 middle ; lobes linear, the inner entire, outer commonly with a tooth near 

 the base ; appendages notched at apex ; claw narrowly auricled : capsule 

 oblong-ovate : seeds strongly tubercled on the back. — Common on the 

 San Francisco peninsula from near the Presidio, and the Mission Hills, 

 to Point San Pedro, San Mateo Co. Mar.— June. 



21. S. Ludoviciana, Wats. 1. c. xxiii. 261 (1888). Glandular-pubescent 

 throughout, 1 ft. high : leaves narrowly linear, 2 in. long or less : 

 peduncles 1 — 2-flowered, equalling the floral leaves : calyx narrow- 

 cylindrical, }2 in. long ; teeth oblong-ovate, scarious-margined and 

 ciliate : petals ,^4 in. long, the oblong limb bifid to the middle, with or 

 without lateral teeth ; claw narrowly auriculate ; narrowly oblong 

 appendages acute, more or less lacerately toothed : capsule subcylindric, 

 on a stipe l^^o lines long : seeds flattened, tuberculate. — Monterey and 

 San Luis Obispo counties. 



0. CERASTIUM, IJllIenhts (Mouse-ear Chickweed). Soft-pubescent 

 and slightly clammy low herbs, with white flowers in leafy- or scarious- 

 bracted dichotomous cymes. Sepals 5, neither carinate nor 3-nerved. 

 Petals 5, bifid or emarginate. Stamens 10. Styles 5, rarely 4 or 3. Cap- 

 sule cylindric, often incurved, thin and translucent, 1-celled, 00 -seeded, 

 dehiscent at apex by about 10 teeth. Seeds rouudish-reniform, scarcely 

 compressed, commonly granulate. 



1. C. viscosuM, Linn. Sp. PI. i. 437 (1753). Annual, soft-pubescent and 

 somewhat clammy, the branches erect or ascending from a decumbent 

 base, ^—l ft. high : leaves ovate, obovate, or oblong-spatulate, i^ — 1 in. 

 long ; bracts of the inflorescence herbaceous throughout : cymes in 

 early state rather dense : pedicels even in fruit only 2 lines long ; the 

 calyx as long, the sepals acute : petals shorter than the calyx : capsule 



