~ ton to Brit. Columbia. 
78 ~ CARYOPHYLLACEZ:. SILENE. 
‘‘This doubtful species is to be distinguished from some forms of S. Doug- 
lasit 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 throughout and 
rarely somewhat glandular above: stems numerous erect or ascending 
from a branching decumbent rootstock, slender 6-15 inches high, simple 
few-flowered: leaves narrowly oblanceolate to linear, an inch or two long: 
flowers erect on slender pedicels: calyx oblong-cylindric, often somewhat 
inflated, 5-7 lines long: petals 8-10 lines long, with broad obtuse lobes, a 
narrow auricled claw and narr w scales: claws, filaments and stipe of the 
ovary, more or less villous: capsule oblong-ovate equalling the calyx, 
rather long stipitate seeds strongly tuber¢led on the back. Rocky places 
and cliffs, Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 
“Var. viscida 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- 
S. macrocalyx. S. Douglasii var. macrocalyx Robinson Proc. Am. 
Acad. xxviii, 145. FPuberulent 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 inflexed membrane: petals 
pink or purplish, 2-lobed: segments obtuse: claw auricled, appendages ob- 
- long, obtuse. On dry ridges. Mount Adams Washirgton to the Humboldt 
“ Mountains in Nevada. 
S. Columbiana. 8S. Douglasii var. brachycalyx Robinson l. ¢. 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 high: 
leaves distant, spreading, narrowly oblanceolate the lower ones attenuate at 
both ends, 2-4inches long: flowers borne 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. triangula 
teeth scarious margined: petals white or pale pink 2-lobed reticulate veined, 
the blade half aslong as the calyx, the claw conspicuously auricled, the 
prominent scales oblong, shallowly 2-lobed: capsule ovoid, 5-6 lines long om 
a stout stipe half as long: seeds dark brown with a prominent pectinate bor- 
der, On cliffs and rocky banks 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 14g-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- 
loge & 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, 3 inches long or less: flowers few, 
.on pedicels 6-12 lines long: calyx inflated, oblong-campanulate, 4-5 lines! 
long, with short obtuse teeth: petals little Seeisrtanl with a broadly auri- 
cled glabrous claw and large thin quadrate and nearly entire appendages’ 
the flabelliform bifid blade with a linear tooth on éach side: capsule’ 
equalling the calyx, oblong-ovate, on a stipe 144 lines long. Washington 
to Brit. Columbia. 
