214 CARYOPHYLLACE^. Silene. 



the following species of western range : S. Hallii, S. Douglasii, S. pectinata, and 

 «S'. Watsoni. 



§ 1. CoNOiMORPHA, Otth, I.e. 371. Calyx conspicuously 18-60-costate ; the 



ribs about ecjually prominent. — Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 578. Conosilene, Fourr. 



Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. ser. xvi. 344. § Conosilene, Rohrb. 1. c. 89; subg. 



Williams, Jour. Bot. xxxii. 13. — Annuals, all of the Mediterranean region but 



the following problematic Califoruian species. 



S. multinervia, Watson. Erect, a foot high, pubesceut throughout and somewhat viscid- 

 glandular above : leaves narrowly oblong or linear, acute : inflorescence cymose with unequal 

 branches: calyx ovate iu fruit, contracted above, 5 lines long, 18-23-ribbed : petals small, 

 purplish, unappendaged, not exceeding the subulate spreading calyx-teeth : capsule narrowly 

 ovate ; partial septa at the base commonly obscure or wanting. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 

 126; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 13.3, ii. 121. 5. Conoidea, Braudegee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, 

 i. 202, & Zoe, i. 113 ; Davidson, Erythea, i. 58 ; not L. — Western California near the coast 

 from Tamalpais near San Francisco, K. Brandegee, to Jamuel, San Diego Co., Orcutt. Also 

 on the Island of Santa Cruz, Brandegee. This species has recently spread rapidly through 

 Southern and Central California, as though an introduced plant, but cannot be identified as 

 yet vvith any foreign member of this small and well marked section of the genus. 



§ 2. BehenIntha, Otth, 1. c. 367. Calyx ovoid to globular, vesicular-inflated 

 and somewhat contracted at the orifice, obscurely 15-20- veined, the veins con- 

 nected throughout their whole extent by anastomosing veinlets. — Behen, Moench, 

 Meth. 709. Subg. Behen, Rohrb. I.e. 77. Subg. Gastrosilene, Williams, 1. c. — 

 Perennials of the Old World ; the following extensively naturalized in America. 



S. CucuBALus, Wibel. (Bladder Campion.) Glaucous: stems ascending, a foot or more 

 in height, leafy below, smooth or somewhat rough-pubescent : leaves opposite, usually 

 lanceolate, acute : bracts much smaller : flowers polygamo-dicecious, sometimes a little 

 zygomorphous through the reflexing of the upper petals and declining of the stamens : calyx 

 campanulate to subglobose, strongly inflated, glabrous, finely reticulated between the incon- 

 spicuous nerves : petals narrow, 2-cleft, scarcely crowned, white or pink. — Prim. Fl. Werth. 

 241 ; Rohrb. 1. c. 84 ; Wats. & Coulter iu Gray, Man. ed. 6, 84. S. infata, Smith, Fl. Brit, 

 ii. 467; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 89; Warming, Bot. Foren. Festskr. 1890, 258. S. vulgaris, 

 Garcke, Fl. Deutsch. ed. 9, 64. Cucubalus Behen, L. Spec. i. 414. Behen vulgaris, Moench, 

 I.e. — Fields and roadsides. New Brunswick to Brit. Columbia (ace. to J. M. Macoun), 

 Washington State, Piper, and southward to Tennessee, Scribner ; common, especially east- 

 ward. (Nat. from Eu.) 



§ 3. EusiLENE, Godr. Calyx campanulate to cylindrical or clavate, definitely 



10-nerved (obscurely so in S. campanulata) ; anastomosing veinlets often present. 



— Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy, 1846, 414. Silene proper and Melandryiim in part, 



of European authors. 



* Annuals or biennials, mostly introduced. 



-t— Inflorescence simply racemose, or subspicate ; pedicels solitary. 



S. GAllica, L. Stem hirsute with white jointed hairs: leaves spatulate, obtuse, mucronate, 

 hirsute-pubescent on both sides, 8 to 18 lines in length: racemes terminal, one-sided, 2 to 4 

 inches long : flowers more or less pedicellate : calyx villous-hirsute, slender and subcylindric 

 in anthesis, becoming in fruit broadly ovoid, with contracted orifice and short narrow spread- 

 ing teeth : petals usually little exceeding the calyx ; blades obovate, somewhat bifid, 

 toothed or entire. — Spec. i. 417; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnaea, i. 40; Rohrb. I.e. 96. »§. 

 Aiiglica, L. 1. c. 416. — Apparently of European origin, but now cosmopolitan; locally com- 

 mon on the Pacific Slope from Brit. ColumViia to Lower Calif. ; not infrequent in cultivated 

 fields in the Atlantic States ; fi. April to July. The typical form has very short ascending 



