434 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



claws and filaments, as well as the stipe of the capsule, are more or less woolly- 

 villous. 



17". S. G-rayi, Watson. Dwarf and alpine, 3 to 6 inches high, densely puberu- 

 lent : leaves oblanceolate, 6 to 8 lines long, the cauline 2 or 3 pairs : flowers usually 

 2 or 3, erect or somewhat nodding, resembling those of S. Douglasii ; petals rose-color, 

 the broad blade bifid to the middle with a prominent tooth each side, and the broad 

 claw with narrow entire auricles : capsule short, nearly sessile. Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 xiv. 291. 



On Mount Shasta, near snow, Braver, Hooker & Gray, A. S. Packard, Jr. 



S. SAUGENTII, Watson, 1. c., collected on the Monitor Mountains, Nevatla (Prof. C. S. Sargent), 

 is an allied alpine species, to be distinguished by its longer linear leaves and larger flowers, the 

 petals with laciniately toothed auricles and toothed appendages, the styles loug-exserted, and the 

 narrowly cylindrical capsule long-stipitate. 



Page 66. l a . LYCHNIS, Tourn. 



Styles 5, rarely 4, and capsule opening by as many or twice as many teeth ; other- 

 wise asSilene. Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 248. 



A genus of about 40 species, of the temperate and arctic portions of the northern hemisphere ; 

 represented in America by 11 species, mostly arctic or alpine. 



1. L. Californica, Watson, 1. c. Alpine, 2 to 4 inches high, cespitose and peren- 

 nial, glandular-puberulent above : leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate : flowers 1 to 3, 

 on slender pedicels, with ovate-campanulate calyx 4 or 5 lines long ; petals witli ex- 

 serted obovate bifid blade lobed at each side : styles occasionally only 3 or 4 : capsule 

 shortly stipitate. 



On Mount Dana (Bolander) ; above Silver Mountain Pass (Brewer), and at some station farther 

 north, Lemmon. 



l b . SAPONARIA, Linn. COW-HERB. 



Calyx tubular-ovate or -oblong, obscurely nerved. Petals 5, with or without 

 crown, the blade entire or emarginate. Stamens 10. Styles 2. Capsule dehiscing 

 by 2 or 4 valves, 1 -celled, or imperfectly 2 4-celled at base, many-seeded. 



A genus of Europe and extratropical Asia, known in America only by a few introduced species. 



1. S. Vaccaria, Linn. Annual, glabrous and glaucous, 1 or 2 feet high, with 

 spreading branches : leaves lanceolate, sessile and clasping, the lower oblanceolate : 

 calyx angled, becoming 5 -winged, purple-tipped : petals pale red, exserted, entire, 

 without crown. Vaccaria mdgaris, Host. 



Butte County (Mrs. J. BidwelT) ; Camp Bidwell (Dr. W. Matthews). 



S. OFFICINAI.IS, Linn., a stout spreading perennial, with large clustered rose-colored often 

 double flowers, is common eastward and to be expected in California. Calyx tubular, terete : 

 petals emarginate, bearing a slender crown. Known as Soapwort or Bouncing Bet. 



Page 67. 2. CERASTIUM. 



2 a . C. viscosum, Linn. Annual, viscid-pubescent, suberect, 3 to 12 inches 

 high : leaves ovate or obovate to oblong-ovate, | to 1 inch long : flowers in close 

 clusters : petals equalling the lanceolate acuminate narrowly margined sepals, 1-^ to 2 

 lines long, usually much exceeding the pedicels : capsule at length much exserted, 

 narrow, nearly straight. C. vulyatum, of the Manuals. 



Auburn, Placer County, Mrs. R. M. Austin. A European species, widely naturalized. 



2 b . C. vulgatum, Linn. Resembling the last, but perennial, with oblong leaves, 

 and with somewhat larger flowers on longer pedicels : sepals 2 or 3 lines long, less 

 acute, and with a broader margin : capsule broader. C. viscosum, of the Manuals. 



Plumas County, Mrs. Austin. The common Mouse-ear Chickweed of the east and Europe. 



