214 CARYOPIIYLLACE.E. Silene. 



the following species of western range : S. HalUi, S. Douglasii, S. pectinata, and 

 S. Wat son L 



§ 1. ConoLmokpha, Otth, I.e. 371. Calyx conspicuously 18-60-costate; the 

 ribs about equally prominent. — Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 578. Conosilene, Fourr. 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. ser. xvi. 344. § Conosilene, Rohrb. 1. c. 89; subg. 

 Williams, Jour. Bot. xxxii. 13. — Annuals, all of the Mediterranean region but 

 the following problematic Californian species. 



S. multinervia, Watsox. Erect, a foot liigh, pubescent throughout and somewhat viscid- 

 glandular ahove : leaves narrowly oblong or linear, acute : inflorescence cyniose with uneiiual 

 branches: calyx ovate in fruit, contracted above, 5 lines long, 18-2;3-ribbed : petals small, 

 purplish, unappendaged, not exceeding the subulate spreading calyx-teeth : capsule narrowly 

 ovate; partial septa at the base commonly obscure or wanting. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxv. 

 126; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 13.3, ii. 121. S. Conoidea, Brandegee, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, 

 i. 202, & Zoeti. 113 ; Davidson, Erythea, i. 58; not L. — Western California near the coast 

 from Tanialjjais near San Franci.'^co, A'. Bntmkgee, to Jamuel, San Diego Co., Orcutt. Al.«o 

 on the Island of Santa Cruz, Brandegee. This species has recently s])read rapidly tlirough 

 Southern and Central California, as though an introduced plant, but cannot he identified as 

 vet with any foreign member of this small and well marked section of the genus. 

 § 2. BEHENiNTHA, Ottli, 1. c. 367. Calyx ovoid to globular, vesicular-inflated 

 and somewhat contracted at the orifice, obscurely 15-20-veined, the veins con- 

 nected throughout their whole extent by anastomosing veinlets. — Behen, Mcench, 

 Meth. 709. Subg. Behen, Rohrb. 1. c. 77. Subg. Gastrosikne, Williams, 1. c — 

 Perennials of the Old World; the following extensively naturalized in America. 



S. CrcuBALUs, Wibel. (Bladder Campion.) Glaucous : stems ascending, a foot or more 

 in height, leafy below, smooth or somewhat rough-pubescent : leaves opposite, usually 

 lanceolate, acute : bracts much smaller : flowers polygamo-dicecious, sometimes a little 

 zygomorphous through the reflexing of the upper petals and declining of the stamens : calyx 

 campauulate to subglobose, strongly inflated, glabrous, finely reticulated between the incon- 

 spicuous nerves : petals narrow, 2-cleft, scarcely crowned, white or i)ink. — Prim. Fl. Werth. 

 241 ; Rohrb. 1. c. 84 ; Wats. & Coulter in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 84. S. infata. Smith, Fl. Brit, 

 ii. 467; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 89; Warming, Bot. Foren. Festskr. 1890, 258. S. vulrjuris, 

 Garcke, Fl. beutsch. ed. 9, 64. Cucubalus Behen, L. Spec. i. 414. Behen vulgaris, Mcrnch, 

 1. c. — Fields and roadsides, Xew Brunswick to Brit. Columbia (ace. to J. M. Macoun), 

 Washington State, Piper, and southward to Tennessee, Scribner ; common, especially east- 

 ward. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 § 3. EusiLENE, Godr. Calyx campanulate to cylindrical or clavate, definitely 



10-nerved (obscurely so in S. campanulata) ; anastomosing veinlets often present. 



— Mem. Soc. Sci. Nancy, 1846, 414. Silene proper and Melandryum in part, 



of European authors. 



* Annuals or biennials, mostly introduced. 

 ■^— Inflorescence simply racemose, or subspicate ; pedicels solitary. 



S. GAllica, L. Stem hirsute with white jointed hairs: leaves spatulate, obtuse, mucronate, 

 hirsute-pubescent on both sides, 8 to 18 lines in length : racemes terminal, one-sided, 2 to 4 

 inches long: flowers more or less pedicellate : calyx villous-hirsute, slender and subcylindric 

 in anthesis, l)ecoming in fruit broadly ovoid, with contracted orifice and short narrow spread- 

 ing teeth : petals usually little exceeding the calyx ; blades obovatc, somewhat bifid, 

 toothed or entire. — Spec. i. 417; Cham. & Schlecht. Linnsea, i. 40; Polirl). I.e. 9G. S. 

 Angh'ra, L. 1. c. 416. — Apparently of European origin, but now cosmopolitan; locally com- 

 mon on the Pacific Slope from Brit. Columbia to Lower Calif. ; not infrequent in cultivated 

 fields in the Atlantic States ; fl. April to July. The typical form has very short ascending 



