PINK FAMILY 



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Northern Sierra Nevada, 4400 to 6000 feet, from Alpine Co. north to 

 Modoc Co. ; Tulare Co., southern Sierra Nevada. The pedicels of the lateral 

 flowers are mostly 3 to 8 or 12 lines long, while in S. pectinata and S. montana 

 the lateral flowers are usually on shorter pedicels or often subsessile. 



Locs. — Upper Clover Creek, Shasta Co., M. S. Baker 316: Silver Lake, Modoe Co., M. S. 

 Baler: Prattville, T. Brandegee; Plumas Co., Piatt; Cisco, Hall 8709; Tallac, C. J. 'Fox, Jr. 



\i\v. nancta Jepson n. var. Panicles loose, broad, with white flowers; 

 blade of the petals cut into 2 divergent lanceolate lobes, each with one small 

 lateral tooth; scales lanceolate, very long, entire. (Panicula laxa lata; flores 

 albi; petaloruni lamina bitida, lobis divergentilius laterale 1-dentatis; squamae 

 lanceolatae longissimae integrae.) — Ilockett I\Idw., Tulare Co., Jepson 4G85. 



Ref. — SiLENE occiDENTALis Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 343 (187.5), type loe. Sierra Co., 

 Leinmoii. 



14. S. pectinata Wats. (Fig. 103a.) Stems erect, 1^ j to 2^2 feet high, 1 

 or 2 (or several) from the crown of a stout taproot, the leaves in a coarse 

 tuft at base or the lower part of the stem with a few remote pairs; herbage 

 very gummy or glandular-pubescent ; leaves elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, 2 to 314 inches long; flowers erect, few in a narrow or rather 

 strict panicle; calyx cylindrie, soon turbinate-distended or ovoid. 5 to 6 lines 

 lontr. the tcetli long-lanceolate, ^ 3 to i-') as long as the tube and usually ex- 



Fig. 103. o, SiLENE PECTINATA Wats., flower. l>, SiLEXE MOXTAXA Wats., longi- 

 tudinal median section of a flower showing the petals, stamens and ovai'y 

 raised on a stipe, c, SiLEXE bernakdina Wats., flower; f?, petal. Drawn 

 from dried specimens, x 2. 



ceeding the mature capsule; corolla deep red. G to 8 (or 9) lines broad; 

 petal blades cuneate, broadly notched, with rounded lobes; scales lanceolate 

 or subulate, entire or notched; capsule ovoid, sessile or nearly so, 3 to 4 

 lines broad. 



Eastern slope of the northern Sierra Nevada. 2.'>00 to '4500 feet, from Jlono 

 Co. to Lassen Co., thence westerly on tlii> interior plateau to northeastern 

 Shasta Co. Adjacent Nevada. 



Locs. — Upper Fall River Valley, Jepson 5762; Honey Lake, T. Braiuleyec ; Sierra Valley, 

 Lemmoii; Sonora trail, 14 miles cast of simimit. Brewer 1875. King's canon, Ormsby Co., 

 Nev., Baker 1103. 



Refs. — Silexe pectinata Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 344 (1875), type spms. said to be 

 from near Carson City, Nev. (C. L. Anderson), Walkers Meadows (Breicer 1857), and 

 Plumas Co. (M. P. Ames, Lemnion). We have no specimens from the western slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada. 



