508 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



15. S. montana Wats. (Fig. IflSb.) Stems sevei-al to many, erect, 9 to 

 16 inches high, from the branching crown of a taproot ; herbage puberulent, 

 glandular above ; leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, 1 to 214 

 inches long ; flowers in a spicate panicle ; calyx eylindric, soon clavate-dis- 

 tended. 6 to 7 lines long, its short teeth very acute and narrowly scarious- 

 margined ; corolla greenish white to rose, 4 to 7 lines broad; petal blades 

 cut at apex into 4 (or 6) narrow segments: scales 2, fimbriate or toothed; 

 auricles roundish, commonl.y denticulate: filaments scarcely exserted; capsule 

 slender-cylindric, tapering to apex, 4 to 5 lines long, included, its stipe II/2 

 to 2 lines long. 



Sierra Nevada and desei't region ad.ioining on the east, 4000 to 6500 feet; 

 inner North Coast Range. 



Locs. — .Janesvilk', T. Brandtiiee ; Lake Tahoe, Blasdale ; Crane Creek, Toscmite Park, Jepson 

 4646; Mineral King, Hall # Babcock 5586. Mt. Hull, Lake Co., Hall 9.540. 



Befs. — SiLENE MONTAX.\ Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 343 (187.5), type spms. from Carson 

 City, Anderson, and Big Meadows, Plumas Co., Lemmon. S. sltockleiji Wats. 1. c. 25: 127 

 (1890), tvpe loc. White Mts., Mono Co., W. H. Shocl'ley, a synonym ace. Robinson in Gray, 

 Syn. FI. 1": 220. 



16. S. bernardina Wats. (Fig. 103c, d.) Stems erect, densely leafy at base, 

 7 to 15 inches high, several to many from the loosely branching crown of a 

 stout taproot or sometimes caespitose; herbage dark green, glandular-puber- 

 ulent throughout, or often grayish pubescent below; leaves grass-like, nar- 

 rowly linear- or subulate-lanceolate, acuminate. 10 to 16 lines long, % to 1 

 (or 2) lines wide; flowers in a narrow panicle; calyx eylindric, at length 

 turbinate-distended, 6 lines long, its teeth broadl.y lanceolate, acute, scarious- 

 margined, 1 to liv, lines long; corolla white, nearly half longer than the 

 calyx, 3 to 4 lines broad ; petal blades 4-cleft, or deeply 2-cleft with the 

 divergent lobes again 2-cleft to middle; claws commonly sparingly woolly on 

 lower part ; scales long, laciniate nearly or cjuite to the base ; auricles rounded 

 or lanceolate ; capsule ovoid, 314 to 4 lines long, long-stiped. 



Southern Sierra Nevada, 5000"'to 8000 feet. 



Locs. — Kearsarge Mill (below Kearsarge Pass), Jepson 901; Tulare Co., Eall 4' Babcock 

 55.58 (Kern Caiion at East Fork), 5343 (Coyote Meadows), 5142 (Salmon Creek). 



Ref.— SiLEXE BERX.VRDIXA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 82 (1889), type loe. Long Meadow, 

 south of Mt. Whitney, Palmer 185. The specitic name used by Watson is inexplicable. 



17. S. verecunda Wats. (Fig. 104a.) Stems erect or decumbent, several 

 from the branching crown of a stout taproot, leafy along the lower part of 

 the stem and also very leafy at base, 14 to 1 foot high ; herbage finely pubescent 

 below, glandular-viscid above; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate; flowers 

 in 1 to 3-flowered peduncled clusters scattered along the simple or sparingly 

 branched flowering stems, the jiedicels short and stout; calyx densely pubescent 

 and also glandular, eylindric, 5 to 6 lines long, or becoming clavate or obovate 

 as the fruit develops ; corolla rose-color, 4 to 6 lines broad ; petal blades cleft 

 to the middle into 2 entire or slightly toothed oblong lobes, and with 2 nearly 

 obsolete lateral lobes or rounded teeth ; scales broadly oblong, obtuse or often 

 notched; claws woolly pubescent; auricles rounded; capsule ovoid, slightly 

 exserted, sessile or stiped ; seeds papillate, the papillae developed into a crest 

 on the margin. 



South Coast Ranges. I\Iay-Sept. The stipe is very variable in length. 



Locs. — Lone Mt., San Francisco, Chandler; Pres'dio, San Francisco, Jepson, Tidestrom. 

 Only the plants of the San Francisco peninsula are truly typical. The plant on Mt. Diablo 

 (Greene) seems different but we are unable to segregate it varietally. We lack material to 

 define the limits southward but presmnably the species must, at least provisionally, include the 



