506 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE 



Locs. Near Jackson, Hansen 525 ; Eosasco 's, Tuolumne Co., Chesnut $ Drew ; Yosemite 

 Valley, Bioletti; Snow Creek, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Sequoia Mills (now Millwood), T. 

 Brandegee; Old Colony Mill, Sequoia Park, Jepson 629; North Middle Tule River, Purpus 

 5596. 



Refs. SILENE BRIDGESII Rohrb. App. Ind. Sem. Berol. 1867, 5, type from "California, 

 Bridges"; Monog. Gatt. Silene, 204 (1868). S. incompta Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 330 

 (1868), type spms. from Mt. Bullion and Yosemite, Bolander. 



Fig. 102. a, SILENE LEMMONII Wats., flower, b, SILENE OCCIDEXTALIS Wats., flower. 

 c, SILENE APTERA Greene, flower. Drawn from dried specimens, x 2. 



12. S. aptera Greene. (Fig. 102c.) Stems very slender, erect, 9 to 14 

 inches high, one or several from the condensed crown of a taproot, the leaves 

 chiefly basal, the stems with mostly a single pair at or near the middle ; herbage 

 minutely pubescent; leaves linear or linear-subulate, l 1 /^ to 3*4 inches long, 

 1/2 to 1^ lines wide; stems 1-flowered, or few-flowered and loosely cymose; 

 calyx campanulate, 3^ to 4^/2 lines long, cleft to the middle or below into 

 lanceolate acute scarious-mjargined lobes; corolla nearly twice as long as the 

 calyx, 5 to 7 lines broad ; petal blades shallowly 4-notched or -lobed, the broad 

 claws hairy-tomentulose ; scales and auricles none; capsule oblong, exceeding 

 the calyx. 



Hockett Meadows, Tulare Co., 8500 to 9000 feet. A distinct species with 

 ampler characters than hitherto indicated. 



Ref. SILENE APTERA Greene, Leaflets, 1: 75 (1904), type loc. Hockett Meadows, Culbert- 

 son, July 16, 1904. 



13. S. occidentalis Wats. (Fig. 102b.) Stems erect, 13 to 19 inches high, 

 1 to 4 from the crown of a stout taproot; herbage viscid-glandular; basal 

 and lower leaves narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, acute, narrowed gradually 

 at base into a long slender margined petiole, 2 to 4^ inches long, the upper 

 linear or lanceolate, acuminate, 1 to 2 inches long; flowers terminal on the 

 forks of a loosely branched panicle; calyx narrowly tubular or soon slightly 

 distended above the middle, 6 to 9 lines long, its teeth obtuse; corolla purple 

 or dull white, 6 to 10 lines broad; petal blades cuneate, cleft half way into 

 4 or 5 linear or lanceolate segments; claws without teeth or auricles; scales 

 linear or lanceolate, nearly entire; capsule oblong-cylindric, 5 to 6 lines long, 

 on a stipe 2 lines long. 



