CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 27 



1. POLYGALA, Tournefort 



1. P. cucuUata, Benth. Flowers rose-color: broad beak obtuse. Cal. 



2. P. Californica, Nutt. Flowers greenish, purplish: sepals toraentose. CaL-Or. 



2. KRAMERIA, Linnaeus. 

 1. K. parvifolia, Benth. Low rigid shrub: upper petals united. San Diego. 



FRANKENIACE^. 



1. FRANKENIA, Linnaeus. 

 1. F. grandifolia, CL & S. Gray-green: calyx-tube furrowed: petals pink. 



CARYOPHYLLACEJ). 



* Sepals united : petals long-clawed. 



Petals with erect bifid appendages at the base of the bla<]e. 



Styles 2 (1 sp. in No. 3). Styles 3 1 



Styles 5, rarely 3 or 4: alpine 2 



Petals not appendaged. Styles 2 3 



Styles 3: petals bifid, white Sp. No. 6 of 1 



* * Sepals distinct or nearly so: petals without claivs or appendages. 



Stipules none: petals white (or pink in No. 9): rarely wanting. 



Petals bifid: pod cylindrical 4 



Petals bifid or wanting pod globular to oblong 5 



Petals entire or wanting: styles opposite sepals 6 



Styles not opposite sepals *. 7 



Stipules scarious: pedicel long, reflexed in fruit: leaves not rigid, fascicled, rather 



fleshy, filiform to linear: petals entire 8 



Styles 3, rarely 5 (petals wanting in 3d species) 9 



Stipules scarious: pedicels bracteate or none: stamens 3 to 5: style 3-cleft, or sessile 

 stigmas 3: petals minute or wanting. 



Leaves not rigid: capsule globose 10 



Leaves and sepals rigid: capsule 3-sided 11 



1. SILENE, Linnaeus. 



* Blade of the petals entire or only emarginaie.. 



Hairy: pinkish flowers in a 1-siiled leafy spike 4 



Glabrt)U8: glutinous rings on the stem: pedicels long 6 



Viflcid-pubescent; leafy: pedicels sliort: petals with 4 appendages 21 



* * Blade of the petals bijid or 2-lobed. 



