PINK FAMILY 



503 



South into IMexico and 



Fig. 



101. 

 Dur. ; 



SiLEXE CALIFORXICA 

 flower, X 1%. 



overlaps the southerly extension of S. ealiforniea. 

 east to New Mexico. 



Locs. — San Diego. T. Bmiidegee; Augustine's Eancli, Palomar, Jepson 1.548; Mt. San 

 Jacinto, Geo. F. Seinhardt ; San Bernardino foothills, Parish; Santa Monica Mts., Barber; 

 Santa Cruz Isl., Frida Sexauer; Ojai Valley, F. W. Hubby; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; 

 Santa Cruz Co. (ace. Anderson, Xat. Hist. Santa Cruz, 36). 



Refs. — SiLENE LACixiATA Car. Ic. 6: 44, t. .564 (ISOl), type loc. Mexico; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1444 (1831). S. siimdans Greene, Pitt. 1: 63 (1887), type spms. from Santa Cruz and Sau 

 Miguel islands; (cf. Zoe, 1: 133). 



5. S. ealiforniea Dur. Ixdiax Pixk. (Fig. 

 101.) Stems 1 or several from a stout taproot, 

 erect or half-erect, very leafy, i^ to 1 foot high 

 or reclining amongst bushes and up to 3% feet 

 high ; herbage puberulent and more or less 

 glaiulular; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate to 

 (•blanceolate. more or less abruptly actuninate, 

 1 to 3V2 inches long; pedicels lo to li-> incites 

 long; calyx oblong, soon turbinate- or obovate- 

 distended, 7 to 11 lines long, its teeth lance- 

 olate; corolla crimson, 1 to I14 inches broad; 

 petals deeply 4-cleft, the middle segments the 

 longer, all the segments toothed, or the lateral 

 entire or rarely all entire ; scales 2 to -i, con- 

 spicuous, incurved ; capsule obovoid. 6 to 8 

 lines long, not exceeding the broad calyx; 

 seeds regularly papillate, the papillae with a depression in the center. 



Open woods of caflons: Sierra Nevada; Tehachapi Range: Coast Ranges 

 from Del Norte Co. at least as far south as Santa Clara and Santa Cruz cos. 

 Our most widely distributed native species in central and northern California. 

 Extends into the corner of southwestern Oregon. June. 



Locs. — Red Hill, Del Norte Co.. Jepson 2904; Tehama Co., Jepson; Redwood Creek. Hum- 

 boldt Co., Jepson 1962; Cahto, Mendocino Co., Jepson; Comptehe, Harriet lVidl:er 387; Mt. 

 Konocti, Jepson; Cache Creek Canon, C. F. Baker 2978; Howell Mt., Traey 2208; Berkeley 

 Hills, Davy; Lake Pilarcitos, Davy 1158; Loma Prieta, Davy 272. Sierra Nevada, 2000 to 

 .5000 feet: Morley's Sta.. Shasta Co.. M. S. Baler; Spanish Peak, Plumas Co., E. M. Austin; 

 Blue Canon, Harriet Walker 1253; Middle Tule River, Jepson 4863; San Emigdio Canon, Davy 

 2067. 



Refs. — SiLEXE c.iLiFORXiCA Dur. Jour. Acad. Phil. ser. 2, 3: 83 (1855), type loc. Deer 

 Creek, Nevada City, Pratten ; Jepson, Fl. AV. Mid. Cal. 165 (1901). Var. siibcorduta Rob. 

 Leaves guborbicular, shortlv acuminate, the subcordate base sessile. — Blue Caiion (aee. Svn. 

 Fl. 1': 218). 



6. S. hookeri Nutt. Stems several. 3 to 5 inches high, erect or decumbent, 

 arising from slender rootstocks derived from the crown of a perennial tap- 

 root ; herbage grayish pubescent or glabrate ; leaves obovate to oblanceolate, 

 attenuate at base, acute at apex, 1 to 2 inches long ; flowers few. solitary in 

 the upper axils, or often only a single terminal one; calyx at fir.st clavate- 

 tubular. 8 to 10 lines long. l^-. to 2 lines broad, its lanceolate teeth 14 as long 

 as the tube: calyx in age strongly turbinate, becoming 4 lines broad; corolla 

 white or pink, 1 to 2 inches broad ; petals deeply slashed into 4 laciniate or 

 linear entire or cleft lobes; crests conspicuous, only the very tips free, entire 

 or notched ; cap.sule globose-ovate. 



Open woodlands. ^lendocino Co. north to western Oregon. ]\Iay-June. 



Locs. — Willits. Davy 5096; Cahto, Jepson 1853; Long Vallev. Mendocino Co., Bolander 

 4696; Graham's, Humboldt Co.. Blasdale; Klamath River. Humboldt Co., Chandler 1.539. 

 Myrtle Creek, Ore., Patsy Ann Wiley. 



