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Low : leaves narrow : claw narrowly auricled : stipe short : seed 



strongly tuberculate on the back. 15 S VERFPirvnA 



Puberulent : leaves narrow ; claw broadly auricled : stipe rather lone • ' ' '""''"''''^■ 



seed tubercled. 17 S Do 



Petals white, very narrow ; lobes linear : styles long-exserted. U. S. BRrDjE^s^i"' 



§ 1. Cali/x campamdate, inflated: floivers few m a loose panicle or paniculate raceme: 



j)erennials, 

 _ 1. S. campanulata, Watson. Glandular-puberulent : stems erect, 6 to 10 

 inche^ high, simple or dichotomously branclied at the summit : leaves lanceolate 

 1 to 11 inches long, acute or acuminate : flowers solitary or few, on short noddin" 

 pedicels : calyx 5 to 6 lines long, finely net-veined, the teeth broad and acute or 

 acutish : petals pale flesh-color, 9 lines long ; claws pubescent, narrowly auricled • 

 blade 4-parted, the lobes bifid or the lateral ones entire or notched ; appendages ob- 

 long, entire : filaments pubescent, exserted : ovary subglobose, shortly stipitate — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342. 



Red ]\Iountain, Mendocmo County, Bolander, Kellogg. 



2. S. Lyallii, Watson. Glabrous except the subglandular puberulent inflores- 

 cence : stems slender, ascending : leaves linear-oblanceolate, 1 to 2 inches lon--^ : 

 flowers few in a dichotomous cyme, erect on slender pedicels : calyx 4 lines Ioikt* 

 net-vemed above ; teeth broad, obtuse : petals brownish purple, 7 lines long ; blade 

 oblong, shortly bifid ; claw naked, scarcely auricled ; appendages oblong, entire • 

 anthers included : ovary narrowly oblong. — Proc. Am, Acad, x, 342, 



TeStory,*^ZyS' ^"""^ ^''™ ^''"'^'' ^''"'''' *^'°''°*^' ^^'""^^'^- Cascade Mountains, Washington 



What appears to be another species of this group, with pendulous flowers, has been collected in 

 the Sierra Nevada above Cisco, but the material is too meagi-e for a specific description. The 

 flowers are clustered on short pedicels; calyx greenish, 4 to 5 lines long; blade shortly bifid, 

 obscurely toothed at the side, and with short entire appendages ; inflorescence puberulent. 



S. MONANTHA, Watson 1. c the one other western species with inflated calyx, has been found 

 on y at the fal s of the Columbia. It is distinguished by weak elongated stems, the long-pedun 

 culate flowers terminal and solitary, not deflexed, and the limb of the petals bifid. 



§ 2. Calyx ohlong-cylindric or clavate, becoming expanded by the enlarging ovary. 



* Annuals: floivers small, solitary, racemose or panicled : capsule ovoid, very shortly 



stipitate, 3 to 4 lines long. 



3. S. Gallica, Linn. ViUous-pubescent : leaves spatulate, 1 to L^ inches loner • 

 flowers on very short pedicels, racemose, 4 to 5 lines long, the rose-colored petals 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



A European species now widely distributed. Abundant in many localities near the coast. 



4. S. antirrhina, Linn. Glabrous, with a part of each joint viscid, erect, slen- 

 der, 1 to 21 feet high : leaves lanceolate or linear : flowers in a naked dichotomous 

 panicle, on long pedicels: petals obovate, minutely appendaged, equaUing the calyx, 

 — liohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xiv.^ 292, t. m. -a o j 



Throughout California, but apparently rare, ranging north to British Columbia and eastward 

 across the continent. 



* * Perennials, spreading or decumbent, usually low : inflorescence leafy. 



5. S, Menziesii, Hook. Glandular-puberulent : stems numerous, weak and 

 ascending, dichotomously branched, 6 to 12 inches high, leafy : leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late or -oblong, acute or acuminate at each end, an inch or two long : peduncles 

 1 -flowered, lateral and terminal, equalling the leaves : petals bifid, without crown, 

 3 or 4 lines long, exceeding the ovate calyx, white : capsule ovate-oblong, shortly 

 stipitate : seeds minutely tuberculate, at length nearly black and shining. — Hook. 

 Fl. i. 99, t. 30. S. Dorrii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 44, fig. 12. 



