78 CARYOPHYLLACEA'. SILENE. 



"This doubtful species is to be distinguished from some forms of S. Doug- 

 7am only by its smaller flowers, more leafy habit and darker petals." 

 Robinson Proc. Am. Acad. xxviii, 144. 



S. Douglasii Hook Fl. i, 88. Finely puberulent thfGugfeout and 

 rarely somewhat glandular above : stems numerous erect or ascending 

 from a branching decumbent rootstock, slender 6-15 inches hig^ siwple 



few-flowered: leaves narrowly' oblanc* olate to linear, an inch or fovo long?: 

 flowers erect on slender pedicels : calyx oblong-cylindric, often so*ieWna<tJ. 

 inflated, 5-7 lines long: petals 8-10 lines long, with broad obtuse l&besyai 

 narrow auricled claw and narr w scales : claws, filaments and stipe dfl the j 

 ovary, more or less villous: capsule oblong-ovate equalling the cs%x,. 

 rather long stipitate seeds strongly tubercled on the back. Rocky pMses* 

 and cliffs, Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 



Var. Yiscida Robinson Proc. Am. Acad. xxviii, 144. Glandular-viscid' 

 especially above: stems erect, rigid, mostly simple from a branched, 

 slightly woody base : calyx broadly oblong or almost campanulate rela- 

 tively short: leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, thickish. Washing- 

 ton to Brit. Columbia. 



S macrocalyx. S. Douglasli var. macrocalyx Robinson Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xxviii, 145. Puberulent or nearly smooth scarcely viscid: stems; 

 several from the fleshy root, rather stout 1-2 feet high: leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate to linear, attenuate to each end: flowers mostly in 3-flowered long- 

 peduncled cymes: calyx long-cylindrical, 8-10 lines long,3-5 lines in diameter, 

 the ends of the teeth surrounded by an obtuse iuflexed membrane : petals 

 pink or purplish, 2-lobed: segments obtuse: claw auricled, appendages ob- 

 long, obtuse. On dry ridges. Mount Adams Washirgton to the Homboldt 

 Mountains in Nevada. 



S. Colnmbiana. S. Douglasii var. brachycalyx Robinson L c. Smooth) 

 or puberulent., but not viscid: root thick and branching: stems many from the' 

 much branched caudex. slender, erect, or decumbent at base, 1-2 feet higUr:: 

 leaves distant, spreading, narrowly oblanceolate the lower ones attenuate af 

 both ends, '2-4 inches long: flowers borna in 1-5 flowered Icng- peduncled 

 cymes: calyx campanulate: 6-10 lines long, in fruit 4-6 lines in diameter, 

 strongly 10-nerved, the intervening spaces scarious, the short triangular 

 teeth scarious margined: petals white or pale pink 2-lobed reticulate veined, 

 the blade half as long as the calyx, the claw conspicuously auricled, the 

 prominent scales oblong, shallowly 2-lobed: capsule ovoid, 5-6 line* long on 

 a stout stipe half as long; seeds dark brown with a prominent pectinate bor- 

 der. On cliffs and rocky hanks along the lower Columbia and Willamette 

 rivers . 



S. monantha Watson 1. c. x, 340. Glabrous: stems very weak, elon- 

 gated, ascending, branched: leaves narrowly oblanceolate 1)^-3 inches 

 long, acuminate, shortly ciliate at base: flowers terminal on elongated 

 peduncles, not reflexed : calyx 6 lines long, slightly puberulent : petals 9 

 lines long, the naked claw very narrowly auricled, limb bifid with broad 

 rounded lobes : scales lanceolate entire, half as long as the limb : filaments 

 naked ; style short : ovary oblong, rather long-stipitate. Collected by Kel- 

 logg & Harford near the "Cascades of the Columbia : not since found. 



S Macounii Watson 1. c. xxvi, 124. Stems very slender from a 

 slender branching rootstock a foot high, minutely pubescent, gland- 

 ular above : leaves linear-oblanceolate, S inches long or less i flowers few, 

 On pe'dicels 6-12 lines long : calyx inflated, oblong-canipanulate, 4-6 lines 

 long, with short obtusfe teeth : petals little exserted, with a broadly auri- 

 cled glabrous claw and large thin quadrate and nearly entire appendage^ 

 the flabelliforin bifid blade with a linear tooth on each side : capsule 

 equalling the calyx, oblong-ovate, on a stipe \Y Z lines long. Washington 

 to Brit. Columbia, 



