504 CARYOPHIXLACEAE 



Refs.— SiLENE HOOKER! Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. 1: 193 (1838), type loc. woods of the Willamette, 

 Ore., Gardiner: Hook, f., Bot. Mag. t. 6051 (1873). 



7. S. parishii Wats. Stems several from the slender hraiu-hing crown of 

 a fleshy taproot, 4 to 7 or 10 inches high ; herbage including the calyx densely 

 pubescent ; leaves narrowly or sometimes broadly lanceolate to oblaneeolate, 

 acuminate, % to li/4 inches long; flowers in terminal 1 to 4-flowered clusters; 

 calyx yellowish, broadly cylindric. 8 to 11 lines long, the lanceolate teeth 

 2 to 3 lines long; corolla white or lemon-yellow, little exserted from the calyx, 

 about 5 to 7 lines broad, the blades of the petals cut nearly to base into about 4 

 narrowly lanceolate or subulate segments, with a supplementary tooth on each 

 side' at base ; seeds with a double marginal crest of flattened tubercules. 



Among rocks or in loose granitic soil in pine forest : San Bernardino and 

 San Jacinto mountains. 8000 to 11.000 feet. 



Locs. — Near Mt. San Gorgonio, Blasdale : Santa Ana Canon, San Bernardino Mts., EM 

 7680; Tauquitz, Mt. San Jaeinto, Jcpson 2303; Santa Rosa Peak, Jepson 4' Hall. 



Eefs. — SiLEXE PABiSHii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 366 (1882), type loe. San Bernardino 

 Mts., S. B. <t jr. F. Parish; Merritt, Erythea, 4: 147 (1896). 



8. S. campanulata "Wats. Stems erect, leafy, many from the thick crown 

 of a perennial taproot, 9 to 11 inches high; herbage green, finely glandular- 

 puberulent to glabrous ; leaves oblaneeolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, 

 sessile, % to 1 inch long; flowers racemose, on deflexed pedicels 3 to 4 lines 

 long; calyx broadly eampanulate, 4 to 6 lines long, its broad rounded teeth 

 % to 1/2 as long as the tube ; petals greenish white or flesh-tinted. 4 to 6-cleft 

 into linear lobes, the lobes 2-cleft at apex ; auricles broad ; scales well developed, 

 several cleft and toothed. 



North Coast Ranges from ndrthern ^Mendocino to Humboldt Co. North to 

 southern Oregon. 



Locs. — In the matter of leaf breadth, the typical form of the species exhibits rather nar- 

 row or lanceolate leaves, while the var. greenei Wats, has ovate leaves. Since narrow and 

 broad leaves may, however, occur in one set of individuals, leaf breadth is evidently not of 

 varietal importance. Both narrow and broad leaf forms, moreover, are represented by glandu- 

 lar-puberuleut and by glabrous individuals. On the other hand the species is not to be re- 

 garded as strictly monotypic. ami the specimens before us may be more consistently segregated 

 in the following way. Typical: Finely glandularpuberulent. leaves varying in breadth from 

 oblaneeolate to ovate. — Red Mt., Bolander 6.517; Mad River, Humboldt Co., Blasdale; Cudahay 

 Valley, w. Siskiyou, Jepson 2855; Humbug road, Siskiyou, Butler 772. Var. greenei Wats. 

 Finely and often rather densely pubescent to glabrous, but not at all or scarcely glandular. — 

 Highland Mine, Butler 962 (finely pubescent, leaves ovate) ; Shaekleford Canon, Chandler 1715 

 (glabrous, leaves lanceolate) ; Log Lake, w. Siskiyou, Butler 59 (glabrous, leaves ovate). Var. 

 petrophila Jepson n. var. Stems and leaves puberulent, not glandular, glaucous; leaves ovate; 

 petals pale yellow. — (C'aules foliaque puberulenta glauea, non glandulosa; folia ovata; petala 

 flava.) — Rocky ridge near Salmon Summit, Jepsoit 2076a. 



Eefs. — SiLEXE CAMPANUL.\TA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 341 (1875), type loe. Red Mt., 

 n. Mendocino, Bolander 6517, Kellogg. Var. greenei Wats, in Rob. Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 

 137 (1893), type spnis. from Yreka, Cal., and s. Ore. Var. orbiculata Rob. in Gray, Syn., Fl. 

 1": 219 (1897), type loc. Hettenchow, Trinity Co., BlanVinship. Leaves roundish, shortly 

 acuminate, lA inch broad; herbage tomentulose. — Ex. char. 



9. S. menziesii Hook. Stems slender, erect, very leafy, 3 to 11 inches 

 higli, arising from slender branching rootstoeks derived from a perennial 

 root ; herbage puberulent ; leaves obovate to oblaneeolate. tapering to base, 

 acute or short-acuminate at apex, i/o to 11^ inches long; flowers few in the 

 axils of the reduced upper leaves, on pedicels 4 to 6 (or 15) lines long; calyx 

 oblong, 2 to 3 lines long; corolla 3 to 4 lines broad; petals narrowly fan- 

 shaped, deeply and broadly notched, with or without small lateral teeth; 

 claws without crests or with small ones. 



