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into four linear or filiform segments; appendages linear, entire: stamens 
and style long exserted, capsule subsessile: seeds small, dark red. Siski- 
you Mountains, near Ashland, Oregon, to Scott’s Mountain, California. 
+ + + Flowers scattered or variously paniculate: style in- 
cluded or somewhat exserted: capsule distinctly stipitate: calyx cylin- 
drical or in fruit clavate or obovate, usually distinctly contracted 
about the stipe of the capsule. 
S. Oregana Watson Proc. Am. Acad. x, 348. Viscidly pubescent: 
stems strict, erect, simple, few to several from a deep perpendicular root 1- 
2 inches long: flowers in an open dichotomous panicle, somewhat nod- 
ding, upon slender pedicels 3-6-lines long: petals white, 10 lines long, the 
narrow limb parted to the base and the lobes deeply bifid with filiform 
segments, the narrow naked claw with the auricles produced upward into 
ianceolate teeth: scales linear entire: ovary oblong, long stipitate. Oregon 
andWashington in mountainous districts. 
S. montana Watson |. c. 343. Finely pubescent: stems erect from a 
more or less decumbent base 4-14 inches high: linear-lanceolate or nar- 
rowly oblanceolate, acuminate 1-2% inches long mostly radical; the cau- 
line 3-4 pairs, inflorescence varying from subspicate to paniculate ; flowers 
rarely solitary: calyx 6-9 lines long: petals greenish white to rose-color 
2-4 lines longer than the calyx, stamens and style about equalling the pet- 
als: ovary long-stipitate: capsule acutish. Near Carson City, Nevada, to 
Mariposa, Cal. Specimens collected in the Siskiyou Mountains near the 
Oregon line are doubtfully-referred to this species. : 
S. Gormani. Finely puberulent with minute crisp hairs, glandular 
above; stems slender, simple, 1-2 feet high: leaves lanceolate to linear, the 
lower ones narrowed below to along slender petiole, acute or acuminate: 
‘flowers rather. few, erect, in a strict elongated panicle, or sometimes con- 
tracted to a several-flowered cyme, pedicels very unequal 3-12 lines long, 
slender; calyx oblong-cylindrical, 6-8 lines long, truncate at base, some- 
what costate with 10 green ribs, the intervening spaces scarious; the subu- 
late teeth very acute; petals well exserted; the blade 3-parted with deeply 
2-loked segments: stamens and styles well exserted: capsule oval, abruptly 
contracted below-to a short stipe. In forests, Hunt’s Ranch, Jackson Co. 
Oregon, 4400 feet elevation: Aug. 13th, 1896: M. W. Gorman. 
+ + + + Calyx oblongy campanulate, or rarely obovate, rather 
loosely surrounding the ovary sometimes narrowed downward, but 
not distinctly contracted about the stipe. 
S. Suksdorfii Robinson Bot. Gaz. xvi 44 t. 6. Low, densely matted: 
stems 2-5 inches high, simple, 1-3 flowered, minutely pubescent below, 
glandular above: stem leaves about 2 pairs, linear 3-7 lines long, a line 
-wide: radical leaves numerous, crowded, similar or somewhat spatulate: 
calyx broadly cylindrical or campanulate seldom exceeding 5 lines in 
length; nerves conspicuous, simple below, anastomosing above, petals — 
white, little exceeding the calyx; shallowly bifid, lobes entire: append- 
ages oblong, retuse: stipe of capsule 14 lines long. On the snowy peaks, 
Washingon to California, © 
S. Lyallii Watson l. c. xxviii, 144. Glabrous excepting the inflores- 
cence which is subglandular-puberulent: stems slender ascending: leaves 
linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 inches long, the lower attenuate to a slender pet- 
iole: flowers in dichotomous few-flowered cymes, the slender pedicels 3-4 
lines Jong, not deflexed ; calyx 4 lines long, campanulate, net-veined above, 
the teeth obtuse, broadly triangular; petals 7 lines long, brownish purple, 
with an oblong shortly bifid limb, oblong entire appendages, and naked 
scarcely auricled claw; anthers purple, included; styles very short; ovary 
small, narrowly oblong» Cascade Mountains lat. 49 Lyall to California. 
