PINK FAMILY 485 



cyiiios. or often .solitary in the lower forks or rarely in the lower leaf axils, 

 on pedic-els 2 to 4 or 8 lines long; sepals IV- to 2 lines long, the petals shorter 

 or wantnig; capsule greenish or brownish, oblong, nearly a half longer than 

 the calyx; seed microscopically roughened. 



.\lpine or subalpine, in wet or cool places, 9000 to 12,000 feet : North Coast 

 Ranges; southern Sierra Nevada; San Bernardino Mts. North to Alaska 

 thence around the earth. In tyjiii-al fdi-ni rare in California, the variety being 

 far more common. 



Locs.— South Yollo BoUy, Jepson; doubtless Mt. Shasta (ef. Bob. in Gray Svu Fl !'• 

 ^L''\^\7^i"'l'^^-."^ ' Metlicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., M. S. Baker 487; Kavveah Peak, Jepson 

 500.S; Soutli Fork Santa Ana River, Wi/t^cr. 



Var. bongardiana Pern. Stems 10 to 17 (or 30) inches long; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, % to li/y inches long, 1 to 2 (or 3) lines broad; pedicels 

 44 to 11/2 inches long.— North Coast Ranges, near the coast; Sierra Nevada 

 4000 to 6000 or 8500 feet; Mt. San Jacinto. North to Alaska, thence east to 

 New England. 



Locs.— North Coast Ranges: Noyo, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4718; Ft. Bragg Bolander 

 6ol8; Eureka, rrju-2/ 79.5; Van Duzen River Valley. Tr<u;j 2884. In the Sierra Nevada the 

 eaves are usually broader (3 to 5, rarely Id. bncs broad) and a few on a stem are often crisped 

 but so are they shghtly in coast specimens. Round Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 683 (sometimes 

 4 merous with 4 styles) ; General Grant Grove, T. Bram}e;,ee ; Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall <f- 

 ( hanmcr l.ol; Yosemite Vallev, Hall. > y 



Refs-STELL.«i.\ BOREAUS Bigel. Fl. Bost. ed. 2, 182 (1824), type loc. White Mts., New 

 Hampshire; Fern. Rhod. Ifi: 144 (1914). Ahine borealis Britton.'Mem Torr Club 5- 149 

 (1894). Stellana eahjeaiiiha Bong. Veg. Sitch. 127 (1832), type loc. Sitka, Bonqard Var 

 BONGARDIANA Fern. Rhod, 16: 151 (1914). Stellana lo,u,ifolia Bong. 1. c. 126, type toe Sitka' 

 Boiigard; not Muhl. > . r > 



ti. S. crispa C. & S. Stems ascending or reclining. 4 to 15 inches long, simple 

 above the base or sparingly branched; herbage glabrous; leaves rather re- 

 mote, ovate, abruptly short acuminate or very acute, usually crisped on the 

 edges. 2 to 6 (or 9) lines long; flowers solitary in the axils" (at everv other 

 node or more scattered), on pedicels 3 to 5 lines long; pedicels erect, or often 

 spreading or deflexed in fruit, about half the length of the internode; calyx 

 li/o lines long; petals divided, equaling the sepals or .shorter, or none; cap- 

 sule straw-colored, 14 longer than the calyx. 



Grassy wet meadows. North Coast Ranges. North to Alaska. May-July. 



r, If^^-T^.'^'"^- *^^"° *^"- ^"'!' 4343; Hydesville, Trae,, 2438; Eureka, Tracj'dU- Willow 

 Creek, Trinity Riyer, Traey 3312; Mt. Shasta, ace. Merriam 



Refs.-STELLARIA CRISPA C. & S. Linnaea, 1: 51 (1826), t.ype loc. Unalaska. Ahine crispa 

 Holz. Contnb. U. S. ^at. Herb. 3: 216 (1895) ; Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, 16: 145 (1899). 



/. S. littoralis Torr. Stems stoutish. ascending, very leafy, 1 to 2 feet 

 long; herbage weakly pubescent; leaves rather crowded, ovate, acute, rounded 

 at the sessile base. % to 1% inches long ; flowers in a terminal compound leafv 

 cyme; pedicels 3 to 5 (or those in the lower forks 7 to 10) lines long; sepals 

 lanceolate, acute, 2 lines long, slightly shorter than the deeplv cleft petals • 

 capsule included within the calyx. 



Bogs or marshes, seacoast only, from San Francisco north to Humboldt Co 

 .'\Iay-June. 



Locs.— Clitf House, Drew: Pt. Lobos, ilirhriier ,f- BinletU : Ft. Reyes, Davy 6731- Bodeea 

 I't., Eastwood; Trinidad, rracy 2968. ' -• ' e> 



Refs.--STELL.\RIA LITTORALIS Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 4: 69 (18.57), type loc. Pt. Reyes, Biqelow ; 

 Jepson. I'l. W. :\Iid. Cal. 167 (1901). Alsine littoralis Greene, Man. Bay Reg, 34 (1894). 



8, S. jamesiana Torr. (Pig. 97c.) Stems diffuse, 5 to 12 inches high, from 

 slender rootstocks. often with fusiform-thickened joints; herbage minutely 

 glandular puberulent ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to' ovate or broadly lanceo- 

 late, 11/4 to 2 (or 3) inches long, the pairs horizontally spreading; tiowers in 



