Silene. C'A It Vol'l I VI.LACK.E. 219 



liruiK lies: talyx tubular, narrowed below, an iucb long, with narrow suliulate teeth (.'{ to 4 

 lines in length) : ])elals narrow, siarccly exserted fronj the ealyx, <left into 4 or nmro 

 filiform segments: seeds doubh- crested with short vesieular hairs. — I'roi-. Am. Aead. x\ii. 

 366. — San Bernardino Mts., Ciilif., I'arish Bros.; also uu drv summit uf 'I'anwilz Uidgc, 

 San Jaeinto Mts , //. .1/. Hall; fl. August. 



++ ++ Flowers smaller, not ordinarily exceeding 6 or 8 lines in diameter. 

 = Flowers bcniie in the forks of the branches and forming a leafy inflorescence: calvx 



oblong or caini)annlato : leaves lanceolate to orl)icular. 

 S. campantllata, W.\tsox. Finely glandular-puliescent : root thick, simple : nK.tstmk 

 i)ran(hing, somewhat woody : stems slender, erect, leafy : leaves se.ssile, lanceolate : flowen* 

 on short detlexed peduncles: calyx green, broadly campanulate, reticnlate-veined, t(Mjihed 

 nearly to the middle: pet;ils narrow ; the limb cleft into 4 or more flesh-colored segments* : 

 capsule globular, 3 to 4 lines in diameter. — I'roc. Am. Aca<l. x. 341 ; Hrew. &. Wats. 1. c 63. 

 — Mountainous districts of N. California and S. Oregon. 



Var. Greenei, Watson. More pubescent throughout : leaves ovate : petals greenish 

 white. — Wats, in Robinson, Proc. Am. Acad, xxviii. 137. — California, S'reka, Urtfur, 

 'Jrinity Co., Bimikinshlf) ; Oregon, Canonville and Wolf Creek, Iloutll Bros., Ashland, 

 Henderson. Apparently the cummonest form. 



Var. orbiculata, Kouinson, n. var. Tomentulose : leaves shorter, rotund in general 

 outline, half inch in diameter, with a very short acuminate tip, broadly cordate and amplexi- 

 caul at the base. — l^levated ledges above Iletteu Chow, Trinity Co., Calif., Blankinship, 

 2:i June, 1893. 

 S. Menziesii, Hook. Finely glandular-pubescent: stems weak, leafy, dichotonion.'ilv 

 branched above, 6 inches to a foot or more in height: leaves ovate-lanceidate, acuminate at 

 each end, thin: flowers very small for the genus: calyx obconical, olxtvate, or obl.nig, onlv 

 2^ to 4 lines in length : petals w bite, 2-cleft, commoidy but not always unajijiemlaged : 

 cajisule \\ to 2 lines in diameter. — F'l. Bor.-Am. i. 90, t. 30; Torr. & Cray, Fl. i. 193, 676; 

 Kohrb. Monogr. Sil. 147. 5. steltarioides, Nutt. in 'I'orr. & Gray, 1. c. 193. N. Durrii, 

 Kellogg, I'roc. Calif. Acad. Sci. iii. 44, f. 12. — From S. Missouri, Blankinship, Xebriska, 

 Williams, to Assiuiboia, and westward and suuthwestward to Vancouver Isl., S. California, 

 and New Mexico. 



= = I'lowers few, rather small, white or nearly so, nodding, borne in a lax naked panicle : 

 petals cleft into four or more narrowly linear almost filiform segments: styles long- 

 exserted : leaves small, lanceolate, chiefly clustered upon the more or le.ss cesjiitoiJc \<;isc. 

 S. Lemmoni, Watson. Smoothish and green or more or less hoary-pulicrulent, finely 

 glandular and viscid aliove : root single ; rootstock considerably branched: stems slender. 6 

 to 14 inches high, bearing 3 to 6 loosely paniculate or subracemose flowers: leaves oblance- 

 olate to linear-oblong, acute : calyx in fruit obovoid, more or less narrowed below ; nerves 

 green, those of the short ovate lanceolate teeth rather broad : j)etals with spatulate jinbc.s- 

 cent claws; blades divided into 4 linear filiform segments; ajtjtendiiges linear, entire: 

 seeds reddish or ashy. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. G4. ^■. 

 Palineri, Wats. 1. c. xi. 124; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. 6.5, an in<ii.stinguishable form of S. Calif. 

 S. longisti/lis, F'ngelm. in Wats. 1. c. xxii. 469, merely a narrow-leaved and somewhat fniws- 

 cent form of the north. — Mountainou.>* regions from Ashland Butte, S. Oregon, througlniut 

 California to Cui:imaca Mts., San Diego Co., Palmer; fl. May to July. The time .vpecies 

 here united are now known from fairly copious intergrading material which leaves no 

 doubt that the supi>osed specific differences are of a trivial and inconstant nature. 



== = == Inflorescence as in the preceding: petals 2-cleft into linear .segments: stxles wry 

 long, the exserted ])ortion as long as the calyx. 

 S. Bridgesii, Kohrb. Pube.scent and vi.scid : stems leafy, usually simjile up to tlie infl.ins. 

 cence, a foot or more in height : leaves se.«sile, lanceulate. acute, 1 \ to 2 inches long : flowers 

 slender-pedicelled. verticillately racemo.se or .somewhat paniculate, nodding: calyx narn.wly 

 oblong or clavate in anthesis, broadly olnnate in fruit : the teeth acute; the pnnripnl nerve.-* 

 broad, green; the commissural much narrower. seMom anastomosing with the others: 

 petals half to three fourths inch long, considerably e.xserted, wliiu> or purplish: uceds \crjf 



