502 CARVOPHYLLACEAE 



without crests, not exeeediDg the subulate spreading ealyx-teeth or very 

 little; claws without auricles; capsule nearly sessile, ovate. 



Coast region. Jlarin Co. south to Southern California. 



Locs. — Mt. Tamalpais, Uichener 4' Bioletti ; Pt. Sur, T. Brandcgce ; Santa Inez ilts., T. 

 Brandegee ; Ojai Valley, F. JV. Hubby ; Santa Cruz Isl., T. Brandegee; Kamona, Puriius; Santa 

 Catalina and Santa Cruz islands (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Refs. — SiLENE MULTIXERVI.4. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 126 (1S90), type spms. from 

 Januil, San Diego Co., Orcutt. and Santa Cruz Isl.. Brandegee ; Brandegee, Zoe, 2: 121 (1S91) ; 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. C'al. 164 (1901). S. coiioidea Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 1: 202 

 (ISSS) ; Zoe, 1: 113 (1890); not L. 



2. S. gallica L. AVindiull Pixk. Erect, simple to freely branched, 10 to 

 15 inelics liigh, hir.sute or hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves spatulate- 

 obovate. 1 to lii inches long; Howers in a mostly 1-sided raceme on very 

 short (1 to 2 lines long) pedicels; corolla white or flesh-color, 3 to 4i/^ lines 

 broad; petal blades obovate and entire, the scales small; ovary almost com- 

 pletely 3-celled. 



Naturalized from Europe ; everywhere in fields and along roadsides, the 

 only common pink. Apr.-IMay. The petals are commonly twisted one-fourth 

 round or nearly so, thus resembling the fans of a turbine windmill. Flowers 

 not withering early in the morning. 



Eefs. — SiLENE G.\LLK'A L. Sp. PI. 417 (1753), type from France; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 

 165 (1901). S. aiigViea L. Sp. PI. 416 (1753). 



S. DicHOTOMA Elirh. Beit. 7: 143 (1792). Tall, pubescent; lea%-es lanceolate or oblaneeolate, 

 acute; flowering stems forking, one flower in each fork, the others racemose; corolla pure white, 

 vespertine, 6 to 8 lines broad; petal blades bifid. — European plant once adventive at Berkeley 

 (Fl. Fr. 116) but not collected in recent years. 



3. S. antirrhina L. Sleepy Catchfly'. Stems erect, slender, sparingly 

 branched, 1 to il^ feet high; herbage minutely puberulent below, mainly 

 glalirous above, the upper interuodes with a black glandular liand at the 

 middle; leaves obloug-lanceolate or linear, 1 to 2 inches long; inflorescence 

 paniculate; pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, tiliform ; flowers small; petals pink or 

 red, emarginate, the blade 1 line long; crests minute: capsule ovoid, 3 lines 

 long. 



Sandy soil. Throughout California, but nowhere common. 



Locs. — Bakersfield, Dori/ 1863; Y^osemite, ace. Ball; McCowin's Bridge, Calaveras Co., 

 Blasdale ; Egg Lake, Modoc Co., M. S. Baler ; Sisson, Jepson ; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 2801; Elk Mt., Lake Co., Jepson; Scotts Y'alley, Lake Co., Tracy 1732; St. Helena, 

 Jepson; Redwood Caiion, Marin Co., Michener 4' Bioletti; Clayton, Chesnut 4' Drew; Big Sur 

 River, Davy 7442; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Palm Caiion, San .Jacinto Mts., Jepson 1367: 

 Witch Creek, Alderson ; San Diego, Orciitt ; Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz and San Miguel 

 islands (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Refs. — SiLENE ANTIRRHIN.4 L. Sp. PI. 419 (1753), tvpe spms. from A'a. and Carolina; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 165 (1901). 



4. S. laciniata Cav. Stems branching from the base, stiffly erect or climb- 

 ing amongst bushes, knotty below. 2 to 5 feet high; herbage finely scabrous- 

 puberulent and a little glandular; leaves elongated and narrowly lanceolate, 

 or linear-lanceolate, and acute, sometimes varying to obovate, 2 to 6 inches, 

 long, narrowed to a sessile base ; flowers terminal on the branches of a naked 

 panicle, sometimes in clusters, crimson, i/o to % (or 1) inch broad; calyx 

 cylindric, 8 to !) lines long, its obtuse teeth 1 line long; petals narrow, deeply 

 4-cleft into lanceolate divisions; crests erect, denticulate; capsule oblong, 

 usually exserted at maturity. 



Southern California from the coast inland to the San Jacinto Range, ascend- 

 ing in the chaparral to 3.500 and 5300 feet; north along the coast to San Luis 

 Obispo, ilonterey, and Santa Cruz cos. In tlie Santa Cruz region it apparently 



