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TRANSCRIPTS OF SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF 
CALIFORNIAN GENERA AND SPECIES.—YV. 
By J. Burrr Davy. 
SILENE (MELANDRyUM) Trttnat, E. Regel. 1 
Perennis. Caules adscendentes, plus minus ramosi, 
puberulo-hirtuli. Folia opposita, ovata v. ovato-oblonga, 
acuta, inferiora in petiolum brevem attenuata, superiora sub- 
sessilia, puberulo-hirta. Flores in cymam foliosam glandu- 
loso-puberulam paucifloram dispositi, initio terminales 
solitarii, deinde alares. Calyx cylindricus, vix inflatus, 
pedunculum superans, decemstriatus, glanduloso-puberulus; 
striae concolores, superne v. a medio venis anastomosantibus 
conjunctae; dentes anguste lanceolati, attenuato-acuti, angus- 
tissime hyalino-marginati, margine glanduloso-puberuli. 
Petala coccinea; unguibus glabris inclusis; lamina quadri- 
partita, lobis medianis oblongis bilobis, lateralibus anguste 
linearibus acutis brevioribus; appendicibus brevibus denticu- 
latis. Capsula (in statu immaturo) elliptico-oblonga, car- 
pophorum circiter duplo superans, stylis 3 filiformibus 
coronata. 
Affinis S. laciniatae et Greggii. Prima foliis lanceolatis v. 
albo-marginatis ciliatis,—altera racemi ramis plerumque uni- 
floris, calycis dentibus late albo-marginatis obtusis dignos- 
citu 
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Semina legit Cl. Tiling in California prope Nevada City. 
1 Animadversiones de Plantis vivis nonnullis Horti Botanici Imper- 
ialis Petropolitani, auctore E. Regel, p. 99. [Published in Acta Horti 
Petropolitani, Tom. i, pp. 89-100, (1871-72): also issued as an excerpt 
with pages numbered 1-12. ] 
The thanks of myself and others who may benefit by these tran- 
scripts are due to Miss Eastwood, Curator of the Herbarium of the 
California Academy of Sciences, for permission to copy the originals of 
this and the following of Regel’s descriptions. 
