PINK FAMILY 505 



Sierra Nevada, 3000 to 9000 feet, south to the San Bernardino Mts., north 

 to Modoc Co., thence west to Humboldt Co. Far north to British America, east 

 to Missouri. Strongly resembling Arenaria niacrophylla. 



Locs. Hyampum, Humboldt Co., Chesnut $ Drew; McCloud River near Bartles, M. S. 

 Baker; Sugarloaf Hill, Modoc Co., E. M. Austin; Lassen Creek, E. M. Austin; Tuolumne 

 Soda Springs, Chesnut $ Drew; upper San Joaquin, Madera Co., Congdon; Bubbs Creek, 

 Jepson 799; Junction Mdw., Kern River, Jepson 5018; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., 

 Hall. 



Ref. SILENE MENZIESII Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 90, t. 30 (1830), type spms. from North- 

 west America. 



10. S. lemmonii Wats. (Fig. 102a.) Stems slender, erect, very leafy at 

 base, 8 to 14 inches high, arising from the slender branched rootstocks crown- 

 ing a deep-seated taproot ; herbage puberulent and somewhat glandular ; basal 

 leaves narrowly obovate. acute, narrowed at base, % to 1*4 inches long; stem 

 leaves similar or linear or lanceolate, the upper remote and much reduced; 

 flowers nodding, in a narrow few-flowered panicle; calyx 3 to Sy 2 lines long, 

 oblong (soon turbinate-distended by the ovoid capsule), scarious, with 10 

 green nerves, the alternate ones ending in the short rounded teeth ; corolla dull 

 or pale yellowish white, 4 to 6 lines broad; blade of petals 4-cleft into linear- 

 subulate segments, the segments entire or rarely lobed; scales entire or 2- 

 toothed, erect ; auricles broad, rounded ; claws woolly-pubescent ; stamens long- 

 exserted, twice as long as the corolla. 



Open pine forest, 4000 to 6500 feet, Sierra Nevada. The most common 

 species in the coniferous belt. 



Biol. Note. The flowers open in the evening, the petal blades stiffly spreading, at first 

 reflexed, later rotate; during the next morning the segments coil inwards from the tip, 

 remain closely coiled all day and do not, so far as we have observed, uncoil again. The stamens 

 are physiologically in 2 sets of 5 each: the first set becomes long-exserted, the second set 

 meanwhile remaining coiled at mouth of calyx tube; when the first 5 relax, the second 5- 

 elongate; the flowers are protandrous and the very long styles follow the second set of sta- 

 mens or overlap them -somewhat during the latter part of their period of anthesis. The pro- 

 cedure in this species probably does not differ essentially in the related species. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: Egg Lake, Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; ne. Shasta Co., Hall # Bab- 

 code 4126; Lassen Peak, Jepson 4096; Mt. Harkness, Plumas Co., Jepson 4122; Blue Canon, 

 Placer Co., Harriet A. Walker 1233; Fallen Leaf Lake, M. S. Baker; Yosemite Valley, Jepson 

 4260; Little Yosemite, Jepson 3162; Chilnualna Creek, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Hazel Green 

 to Big Meadows, Jepson; Pine Ridge, Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 70; Round Mdw., Giant 

 Forest, Jepson 706. North Coast Ranges: Sisson, Jepson; Dyer's Ranch to Hawkins Bar, 

 Trinity Co., Jepson 1990; Snow Mt., T. Brandegee. Southern California: Mt. Wilson, Geo. 

 B. Grant; Job's Peak, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2336; Seven Oaks, Parish 3729; Cuyamaca 

 Mt., T. Brandegee. 



Kefs. SILENE LEMMONII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 342 (1875), type loc. Sierra Co., 

 Lemmon. S. palmeri Wats. 1. c. 11: 124 (1876), type loc. Cuyamaca Mts., Palmer. S. longi- 

 stylis Engelm. ; Wats. 1. c. 22: 469 (1887), type spms. from Scott Mts., Cal., Engelmann, and 

 Ashland Butte, Ore., Henderson. S. deflexa Eastw. Bot. Gaz. 41: 284 (1906), type loc. "above 

 the lakes," Canon Creek, Trinity Co., Vernon Bailey. 



11. S. bridges!! Rohrb. Stems 1 to 4 from the crown of a taproot, leafy, 

 11/2 to 2y 2 feet high; herbage glandular-puberulent ; leaves sessile, lanceolate 

 to "oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, sometimes varying to oblong-lanceolate, 

 1 to 21/2 inches long; flowers nodding, verticillately racemose or in a narrow 

 loose panicle with spreading branches; calyx nearly cylindric, soon clavate 

 or obovate in fruit, 3 to 5 lines long, the teeth acute or lanceolate, 14 to l / 3 

 as long as the tube ; corolla white or purplish, 5 to 8 lines broad ; petal blades 

 2-clef t into linear segments ; crests lanceolate ; stamens and style long exserted ; 

 capsule ovate-globose. 



. Central and southern Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 8700 feet. 



