76 CARYOPHYLLACE^E. SILENE. 



*- Flowers large rather few : calyx cylindrical or clavate : petals 6-7 

 lines long, 4-several-cleft : stems leafy: seedcoat more or less rough- 

 ened but firm. 



S. Californica Durand PL Pratt. 83. Glandular-pubescent or puberu- 

 lent: stems several from the simple root, ^-4 feet high, lax, leafy, sim- 

 ple, or branched above : leaves oblanceolate to ovate 1-4 inches long, acute 

 or acuminate : flowers large, deep scarlet, few at the ends of the branches : 

 pedicels short, the lower deflected in fruit: calyx 7-10 lines long : petals 

 deeply parted with bifid segments, the lobes 2-3 toothed or entire ; scales 

 oblong-lanceolate : capsule ovate 6 lines long rather shortly stipitate. Cal- 

 ifornia, reaches the southwest corner of Oregon. 



S. Hookeri Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i, 193. White-tomentose, especially 

 above: stems leafy 3-10 inches high, from a deep perpendicular root : 

 leaves spatulate or lanceolate, acute, an inch or so long, attenuate below 

 to a winged petiole : flowers large and showy, on erect pedicels 1-2 inches 

 long; calyx oblong-clavate, 8-10 lines long: petals pale pink, twice longer 

 than the calyx, the broad claw not auricled, the cuneate blade 1-6 parted 

 with lanceolate or linear entire or bifid segments ; scales lanceolate, de- 

 current upon the claw, ovary roundish, nearly sessile. Prairies and 

 wooded hillsides, Willamette valley to California. 



-- *- Flowers smaller, 6-8 lines in diameter. 



++ Flowers borne in the forks of the branches forming a leafy in- 

 florescence. 



S. campannlata Watson Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. Finely glandular 

 pubescent : root thick, simple, caudex branching, somewhat woody : stem 

 6-10 inches high, simple or dichotomously branched at the summit; 

 leaves lanceolate, 1-1 /^ inches long, acute or acuminate ; flowers solitary 

 or few, on short deflexed pedicels ; calyx campanulate, 5-6 lines long, the 

 teeth broad, obtuse or acutish, and finely net- veined ; petals pale flesh- 

 color, 9 lines long, with pubescent scarcely auriculat'e claws, the limb 4- 

 parted nearly to the base, the lobes bifid to the middle, or the lateral ones 

 entire or notched ; appendages oblong, fleshy, entire ; filaments pubescent, 

 exserted ; ovary suborbicular, shortly stipitate. In mountains of southern 

 Oregon and northern California. 



S. Greeniit S. campannlata var. Greenii Watson in Robinson Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xxviii, 137. Pubescent and viscid-glandular throughout: 

 root simple ; rootstock branching: stems slender declined or ascending: 

 leaves ovate : calyx green, open campanulate, deeply toothed : petals rather 

 broad, cleft into 4 or more greenish or yellow segments : capsule globular. 

 In the mountains from the Cow Creek country to northern California. 



S. Menziesii Hook. Fl. i, 90 t, 30. S. stellarioides Nutt. T. & G. i, 

 193. Finely glandular-pubescent: stems weak, dichotomously branched 

 above: leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at each end: flowers small : ca- 

 lyx 2-4 lines long : petals 2-cleft commonly unappendaged : capsule ovate- 

 oblong, 2 lines or less broad. Common from Vancouver Island to 

 southern California and the Rocky Mountains and New Mexico. 



-- H- Flowers few, rather small, white or nearly so, nodding, borne 

 in a lax naked pannicle : petals cleft into 4 or more narrowly linear almost 

 filiform segments ; styles long exserted. 



8. longistylis Engelm. in Herb. Watson Proc. Arn. Acad. xxii 469. 

 Cespitose with a slender much-branched caudex: finely pubescent through- 

 out, with very short spreading subglandular hairs : stems slender, 6-12 

 inches high : leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute an inch long or 

 less, mostly radical, the cauline only 1 or 2 pairs : calyx ovate cylindrical 

 soon becoming ovoid, the teeth broad ovate, petals white, the narrow claw 

 scarcely auricled and very pubescent, the blade cleft nearly to the base, 



