504 CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



s. SILENE HOOKERI Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1: 193 (1838), type loe. woods of the Willamette, 

 Ore., Gardiner; Hook, f., Bot. Mag. t. 6051 (1873). 



7. S. parishii Wats. Stems several from the slender branching crown of 

 a fleshy taproot, 4 to 7 or 10 inches high ; herbage including the calyx densely 

 pubescent; leaves narrowly or sometimes broadly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 

 acuminate, % to iy inches long; flowers in terminal 1 to 4-flowered clusters; 

 calyx yellowish, broadly cylindric, 8 to 11 lines long, the lanceolate teeth 

 2 to 3 lines long ; corolla white or lemon-yellow, little exserted from the calyx, 

 about 5 to 7 lines broad, the blades of the petals cut nearly to base into about 4 

 narrowly lanceolate or subulate segments, with a supplementary tooth on each 

 side at base ; seeds with a double marginal crest of flattened tubercules. 



Among rocks or in loose granitic soil in pine forest: San Bernardino and 

 San Jacinto mountains, 8000 to 11,000 feet. 



Locs. Near Mt. San Gorgonio, Blasdale; Santa Ana Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Hall 

 7680; Tauquitz, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2303; Santa Eosa Peak, Jepson fy Hall. 



Kefs. SILENE PARISHII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 366 (1882), type loc. San Bernardino 

 Mts., S. B. $ W. F. Parish; Merritt, Erythea, 4: 147 (1896). 



8. S. campanulata Wats. Stems erect, leafy, many from the thick crown 

 of a perennial taproot, 9 to 11 inches high; herbage green, finely glandular- 

 puberulent to glabrous; leaves oblanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, 

 sessile, % to 1 inch long; flowers racemose, on deflexed pedicels 3 to 4 lines 

 long; calyx broadly campanulate, 4 to 6 lines long, its broad rounded teeth 

 a /3 to y 2 as l n g as t ne t UDe ; petals greenish white or flesh-tinted, 4 to 6- cleft 

 into linear lobes, the lobes 2-cleft at apex ; auricles broad ; scales well developed, 

 several cleft and toothed. 



North Coast Ranges from northern Mendocino to Humboldt Co. North to 

 southern Oregon. 



Locs. In the matter of leaf breadth, the typical form of the species exhibits rather nar- 

 row or lanceolate leaves, while the var. greenei Wats, has ovate leaves. Since narrow and 

 broad leaves may, however, occur in one set of individuals, leaf breadth is evidently not of 

 varietal importance. Both narrow and broad leaf forms, moreover, are represented by glandu- 

 lar-puberulent and by glabrous individuals. On the other hand the species is not to be re- 

 garded as strictly monotypic, and the specimens before us may be more consistently segregated 

 in the following way. Typical: Finely glandular-puberulent, leaves varying in breadth from 

 oblanceolate to ovate. Eed Mt., Bolander 6517; Mad Eiver, Humboldt Co., Blasdale; Cudahay 

 Valley, w. Siskiyou, Jepson 2855; Humbug road, Siskiyou, Butler 772. Var. greenei Wats. 

 Finely and often rather densely pubescent to glabrous, but not at all or scarcely glandular. 

 Highland Mine, Butler 962 (finely pubescent, leaves ovate) ; Shackleford Canon, Chandler 1715 

 (glabrous, leaves lanceolate) ; Log Lake, w. Siskiyou, Butler 59 (glabrous, leaves ovate). Var. 

 petrophila Jepson n. var. Stems and leaves puberulent, not glandular, glaucous; leaves ovate; 

 petals pale yellow. (Caules foliaque puberulenta glauca, non glandulosa; folia ovata; petala 

 flava.) Eocky ridge near Salmon Summit, Jepson 2076a. 



Eefs. SILENE CAMPANULATA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 341 (1875), type loc. Eed Mt., 

 n. Mendocino, Bolander 6517, Kellogg. Var. GREENEI Wats, in Bob. Proc. Am. Acad. 28: 

 137 (1893), type spms. from Yreka, Cal., and s. Ore. Var. orbiculata Eob. in Gray, Syn., Fl. 

 I 1 : 219 (1897), type loc. Hettenchow, Trinity Co., Blanlcinship. Leaves roundish, shortly 

 acuminate, % inch broad; herbage tomentulose. Ex. char. 



9. S. menziesii Hook. Stems slender, erect, very leafy, 3 to 11 inches 

 high, arising from slender branching rootstocks derived from a perennial 

 root; herbage puberulent; leaves obovate to oblanceolate, tapering to base, 

 acute or short-acuminate at apex, y 2 to iy 2 inches long; flowers few in the 

 axils of the reduced upper leaves, on pedicels 4 to 6 (or 15) lines long; calyx 

 oblong, 2 to 3 lines long; corolla 3 to 4 lines broad; petals narrowly fan- 

 shaped, deeply and broadly notched, with or without small lateral teeth; 

 claws without crests or with small ones. 



