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glaucous, stout, 2 to 4 feet high, branching : leaves rather thick, acute, 

 often irregularly toothed, the teeth at first setosely tipped and the leaf 

 sparingly setose-ciliate near the base ; cauline leaves lanceolate or 

 oblanceolate : flowers more or less dark purple, 4 or 5 lines long, 

 the sepals often hairy at the tip : filaments distinct : pods spreading 

 and curved, 3 to 6 inches long by about a line broad, beaked with a 

 short stout style and shortly lobed stigma : seeds winged. — At 

 Campo, near the southern boundary of California ; George R. Vasey 

 and S. G. Parish m 1880. A specimen collected by the latter in the 

 San Bernardino Mountains is apparently the same. 



SiLENE (Conosilene) multinervia. Annual, erect, sparingly 

 branched, glandular-pubescent, about a foot high : leaves liuear to 

 linear-oblong, acute, the lowermost narrowly oblanceolate, 1 or 2 

 inches long : inflorescence dichotomously cymose ; bracts linear : calyx 

 narrowly ovate, 20-25-nerved, 5 or 6 lines long, the acuminate teeth 

 usually purple-tipped; petals purplish, scarcely equalling the calyx, 

 without appendages or auricles, emarginate : filaments glabrous, in- 

 cluded : capsule nearly sessile, oblong-ovate, included : seeds minute, 



§ 2. EUCLISIA, Nutt. Petals narrow (the blade scarcely broader than the 

 claw), undulate-crisped. 



* Filaments distinct; cauline leaves clasping and auriculate ; pods not reflexed. 

 •t- Annuals ; branches bearing round-cordate bracts, which also frequently 



subtend or alternate with the lower pedicels. 



4. S. TORTUosus, Kell. — Nortliern California. 



5. S. DivERSiFOLius, Watson. — Northern California. 



6. S. Lemmoni, Watson. — Arizona. 



1- -t- Glabrous and glaucous mostly simple-stemmed biennials or perennials (?), 

 with the broad thickish leaves obtuse or only acutish, the cauline cordately 

 clasping; sepals obtuse, usually more or less setose. 



7. S. BARBATUS, Watson. — Northern California. 



8. S. coRDATCs, Nutt. — From the Sierra Nevada to Colorado. 



H- H- -t- Glabrous and glaucous annuals or biennials (?), with cauline leaves 

 lanceolate and acute. 

 9. S. Arizonicus, Watson. — Southern Arizona. 



10. S. CAMPESTRis, Watson. — Southern California. 



11. S. CAiuNATDS, Wright. — W. Texas to southern Arizona and Chihuahua. 



* * Filaments distinct ; pubescent annual, with sagittate leaves ; pods narrow, 



reflexed. 



12. S. HETEROPHTLLUS, Nutt. — Southem California. 



# » * Filaments distinct ; leaves not clasping nor auriculate ; pods narrow. 

 •t- Glabrous and glaucous biennial (?). 



13. S. (?) HowELLii, Watson. — Southern Oregon. 



