434 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIOXS TO VOL. I. 



elaws and filaments, as Avell as the stipe of tlic capsule, are more or less woolly- 

 villous. 



17". S. Grrayi, Watson. Dwarf and alpine, 3 to G 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 bitid to the middle with a prominent tootli each side, and the broad 

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

 xiv. 291. 



On Mount Shasta, near snow. Brewer, Hooker & Grccij, A. S. Packard, Jr. 



S. Saugen'tii, Watson, 1. c, collected on the Monitor Mountains, Nevada {Prof. C S. Sargent), 

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

 l)etals with laciniately toothed auricles and toothed appendages, the styles loug-exserted, and the 

 narrowly cylindrical capsule long-stipitate. 



Page 66. l^ LYCHNIS, Tourn. 



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

 wise as Silene. —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 l>y 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 : tlowers 1 to 3, 

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



P. 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 viUgaris, Host. 



Butte County {Mrs. J. Bidioell) ; Camp Bidwell {Dr. IV. Matlheivs). 



S. OFFICIXAT.IS, Lhni., a stout spreading perennial, with large clustered rose-colored often 

 double flowers, is connnon eastward and to be expected in California. Calyx tuljular, terete : 

 petals emai-giuate, bearing a slender crown. Known as Soapwort or Bouncing Bet. 



Page 67. 2. CERASTIUM. 



2^ 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. vulgatum, of the Manuals. 



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



2^ 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. viscosmn, of the Manuals. 



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



