76 CARYOPHYLLACES., SILENE. 
+ Flowers large rather few: calyx cylindrical or clavate: petals 5-7 
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, 4-4 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, 1938. White-tomentose, especially 
above: stems leafy 3-10 inches high, from a deep perpendicular root: 
leaves spatulate or lanceolate, acute, an inch or so fears 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. campanulata Watson Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. Finely giandular 
pubescent: root thick, simple, caudex branching, somewhat woody: stem 
6-10 inches high, simple or dichotomously branched at the su mmit; 
leaves lanceolate, 1-14g 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 Besaict B auriculate 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. Greenti. S. campaniulata var. Greenii Watson in Robinson Proc. 
Am. Acad. xxviii, 1387. 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. 
_+ + 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. 
S. longistylis Engelm. in Herb. Watson Proc. Am. 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, 
