502 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



without crests, not exceeding the subulate spreading calyx-teeth or vei 

 little; claws without auricles; capsule nearly sessile, ovate. 



Coast region, Marin Co. south to Southern California. 



Locs. Mt. Tamalpais, Michener $ Bioletti; Pt. Sur, T. Brandegee; Santa Inez Mts., 

 Brandegee; Ojai Valley, F. W, Hubby ; Santa Cruz Isl., T. Brandegee; Ramona, Purpus; Sant 

 Catalina and Santa Cruz islands (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Refs. SILENE MULTINERVIA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 126 (1890), type spms. fror 

 Jamul, San Diego Co., Orcutt, and Santa Cruz Isl., Brandegee; Brandegee, Zoe, 2: 121 (1891) 

 Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 164 (1901). S. conoidea Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 1: 2C 

 (1888); Zoe, 1: 113 (1890); not L. 



2. S. gallica L. WINDMILL PINK. Erect, simple to freely branched, 10 tc 

 15 inches high, hirsute or hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves spatulate- 

 obovate, 1 to l 1 /^ inches long; flowers in a mostly 1-sided raceme on very 

 short (1 to 2 lines long) pedicels; corolla white or flesh-color, 3 to 4y 2 line 

 broad; petal blades obovate and entire, the scales small; ovary almost com- 

 pletely 3-celled. 



Naturalized from Europe; everywhere in fields and along roadsides, the 

 only common pink. Apr.-May. The petals are commonly twisted one-fourtl 

 round or nearly so, thus resembling the fans of a turbine windmill. Flowei 

 not withering early in the morning. 



Refs. SILENE GALLICA L. Sp. PI. 417 (1753), type from France; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal 

 165 (1901). S. anglica L. Sp. PI. 416 (1753). 



S. DICHOTOMA Ehrh. Beit. 7: 143 (1792). Tall, pubescent; leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 acute; flowering stems forking, one flower in each fork, the others racemose; corolla pure white, 

 vespertine, 6 to 8 lines broad; petal blades bifid. European plant once adventive at Berkeley 

 (Fl. Fr. 116) but not collected in recent years. 



3. S. antirrhina L. SLEEPY CATCHPLY. Stems erect, slender, sparingly 

 branched, 1 to 2y 2 feet high; herbage minutely puberulent below, mainly 

 glabrous above, the upper internodes with a black glandular band at the 

 middle; leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, 1 to 2 inches long; inflorescence 

 paniculate ; pedicels 3 to 6 lines long, filiform ; flowers small ; petals pink or 

 red, emarginate, the blade 1 line long; crests minute; capsule ovoid, 3 lines 

 long. 



Sandy soil. Throughout California, but nowhere common. 



Locs. Bakersfield, Davy 1863; Yosemite, ace. Hall; McCowin's Bridge, Calaveras Co., 

 Blasdale; Egg Lake, Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; Sisson, Jepson; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 2801; Elk Mt., Lake Co., Jepson; Scotts Valley, Lake Co., Tracy 1732; St. Helena, 

 Jepson; Redwood Canon, Marin Co., Michener $ Bioletti; Clayton, Chesnut fy Drew ; Big Sur 

 River, Davy 7442; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; Palm Canon, San Jacinto Mts., Jepson 1367; 

 Witch Creek, Alderson; San Diego, Orcutt; Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz and San Miguel 

 islands (Zoe, 1: 133). 



Refs. SILENE ANTIRRHINA L. Sp. PI. 419 (1753), type spms. from Va. and Carolina; Jep- 

 son, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 165 (1901). 



4. S. laciniata Cav. Stems branching from the base, stiffly erect or climb- 

 ing amongst bushes, knotty below, 2 to 5 feet high; herbage finely scabrous- 

 puberulent and a little glandular; leaves elongated and narrowly lanceolate, 

 or linear-lanceolate, and acute, sometimes varying to obovate, 2 to 6 inches 

 long, narrowed to a sessile base ; flowers terminal on the branches of a naked 

 panicle, sometimes in clusters, crimson, y 2 to % (or 1) inch broad; calyx 

 cylindric, 8 to 9 lines long, its obtuse teeth 1 line long; petals narrow, deeply 

 4-cleft into lanceolate divisions; crests erect, denticulate; capsule oblong, 

 usually exserted at maturity. 



Southern California from the coast inland to the San Jacinto Eange, ascend- 

 ing in the chaparral to 3500 and 5300 feet; north along the coast to San Luis 

 Obispo, Monterey, and Santa Cruz cos. In the Santa Cruz region it apparently 



