506 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



Loes. — Near Jackson, Eanxcn 525; Eosasco 's, Tuolumne Co., Chesmit Sr Drew; Yoseniite 

 Valley, Bioletti; Snow Creek, Mariposa Co., Congdon ; Sequoia Mills (now Millwood), T. 

 Brandegee; Old Colony Mill, Sequoia Park, Jepson 629; North Middle Tule River, Purpns 

 5596. 



Refs. — SiLENE BBiDGESii Eohrb. App. Ind. Sem. Berol. 1867, 5, type from "California, 

 Bridges"; Monog. Gatt. Silene, 204 (1868). S. iiwompta Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 330 

 (1868), type spms. from Mt. Bullion and Yosemite, Bolander. 



Fig. 102. o. Silene lemmokii Wats., flower, b. Silene occidentalis Wats., flower. 

 (', Silene .^pter.a. Greene, flower. Drawn from dried specimens, x 2. 



12. S. aptera Greene. (Fig. 102c.) Stem.s very slender, erect, 9 to 14 

 inches high, cue or several from the condensed crown of a taproot, the leaves 

 chiefly basal, the stems with mostly a single pair at or near the middle; herbage 

 minutely pubescent; leaves linear or linear-subulate, IV2 to 31,4 inches long, 

 1/^ to 114 lines wide ; stems 1-tlowered, or few-flowered and loosely cymose ; 

 calyx eampanulate, 31^4 to 4V2 lines long, cleft to the middle or below into 

 lanceolate acute scarious-nijargined lobes; corolla nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx, 5 to 7 lines broad ; petal blades shallowly 4-notched or -lobed. the broad 

 claws hairy-tomentulose ; scales and auricles none; capsule oblong, exceeding 

 the calyx. 



Hockett Meadows, Tulare Co.. 8500 to 9000 feet. A distinct species with 

 ampler characters than hitherto indicated. 



Eef. — Silene apteba Greene, Leaflets, 1: 75 (1901), tvpe loc. Hockett Meadows, Cidbert- 

 son, July 16, 1904. 



13. S. occidentalis AVats. (Fig. 102b.) Stems erect, 13 to 19 inches high, 

 1 to 4 from the crown of a stout taproot; herbage viscid-glandular; basal 

 and lower leaves narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, acute, narrowed gradually 

 at base into a long slender margined petiole, 2 to 41/^ inches long, the upper 

 linear or lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers terminal on the 

 forks of a loosely branched panicle ; calyx narrowly tubular or soon slightly 

 distended above the middle, 6 to 9 lines long, its teeth obtuse; corolla purple 

 or dull wliite, 6 to 10 lines broad; petal blades cuneate, cleft half way into 

 4 or 5 linear or lanceolate segments; claws without teeth or aiu-icles; scales 

 linear or lanceolate, nearly entire; capsule oblong-cylindric, 5 to 6 lines long, 

 on a stipe 2 lines long. 



