PINK FAMILY 



503 



Fig. 101. SlLENE CALIFORXICA 



Dur. ; flower, x 1^>. 



overlaps the southerly extension of S. californica. South into Mexico and 

 east to New Mexico. 



Locs. San Diego, T. Brandegee; Augustine's Banch, Palomar, Jepson 1548; Mt. San 

 Jacinto, Geo. F. Eeinhardt; San Bernardino foothills, Parish; Santa Monica Mts., Barber; 

 Santa Cruz Isl., Frida Sexauer ; Ojai Valley, F. W. Hubby; Arroyo Grande, Alice King; 

 Santa Cruz Co. (aec. Anderson, Nat. Hist. Santa Cruz, 36). 



Eefs. SILENE LACINIATA Cav. Ic. 6: 44, t. 564 (1801), type loc. Mexico; Lindl. Bot. Eeg. 

 t. 1444 (1831). S. simulans Greene, Pitt. 1: 63 (1887), type spms. from Santa Cruz and San 

 Miguel islands; (cf. Zoe, 1: 133). 



5. S. californica Dur. INDIAN PINK. (Fig. 

 101.) Stems 1 or several from a stout taproot, 

 erect or half-erect, very leafy, y 2 to 1 foot high 

 or reclining amongst bushes and up to 3% feet 

 high; herbage puberulent and more or less 

 glandular; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate to 

 oblanceolate, more or less abruptly acuminate, 

 1 to 3!/2 inches long; pedicels y 2 to I 1 /*? inches 

 long; calyx oblong, soon turbinate- or obovate- 

 distended, 7 to 11 lines long, its teeth lance- 

 olate; corolla crimson, 1 to 1*4 inches broad ; 

 petals deeply 4-cleft, the middle segments the 

 longer, all the segments toothed, or the lateral 

 entire or rarely all entire; scales 2 to 4, con- 

 spicuous, incurved; capsule obovoid, 6 to 8 

 lines long, not exceeding the broad calyx; 



seeds regularly papillate, the papillae with a depression in the center. 



Open woods of canons: Sierra Nevada; Tehachapi Range; Coast Ranges 

 from Del Norte Co. at least as far south as Santa Clara and Santa Cruz cos. 

 Our most widely distributed native species in central and northern California. 

 Extends into the corner of southwestern Oregon. June. 



Locs. Red Hill, Del Norte Co., Jepson 2904; Tehama Co., Jepson; Eedwood Creek, Hum- 

 boldt Co., Jepson 1962; Cahto, Mendocino Co., Jepson; Comptche, Harriet Walker 387; Mt. 

 Konocti, Jepson; Cache Creek Canon, C. F. BaTcer 2978; Howell Mt., Tracy 2208; Berkeley 

 Hills, Davy; Lake Pilarcitos, Davy 1158; Loma Prieta, Davy 272. Sierra Nevada, 2000 to 

 5000 feet: Morley's Sta., Shasta Co., M. S. Baker; Spanish Peak, Plumas Co., E. M. Austin; 

 Blue Canon, Harriet Walker 1253 ; Middle Tule Eiver, Jepson 4863 ; San Emigdio Canon, Davy 

 2067. 



Eefs. SILENE CALIFORNICA Dur. Jour. Acad. Phil. ser. 2, 3: 83 (1855), type loe. Deer 

 Creek, Nevada City, Pratten; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 165 (1901). Var. subcordata Rob, 

 Leaves suborbicular, shortly acuminate, the subcordate base sessile. Blue Canon (ace. Syii. 

 Fl. I 1 : 218). 



6. S. hookeri Nutt. Stems several, 3 to 5 inches high, erect or decumbent, 

 arising from slender rootstocks derived from the crown of a perennial tap- 

 root; herbage grayish pubescent or glabrate; leaves obovate to oblanceolate, 

 attenuate at base, acute at apex, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers few, solitary in 

 the upper axils, or often only a single terminal one: calyx at first clavate- 

 tubular, 8 to 10 lines long, l 1 /^ to 2 lines broad, its lanceolate teeth 14 as long 

 as the tube; calyx in age strongly turbinate, becoming 4 lines broad; corolla 

 white or pink, 1 to 2 inches broad; petals deeply slashed into 4 laciniate or 

 linear entire or cleft lobes; crests conspicuous, only the very tips free, entire 

 or notched; capsule globose-ovate. 



Open woodlands. Mendocino Co. north to western Oregon. May-June. 



Locs. Willits, Davy 5096; Cahto, Jepson 1853; Long Valley, Mendocino Co., Bolander 

 4696; Graham's, Humboldt Co., Blasdale; Klamath River, Humboldt Co., Chandler 1539. 

 Myrtle Creek, Ore., Patsy Ann Wiley. 



