Lychnis. CAK V( )ril VLLACK.K. ^2.J 



§ 1. Ellvciims, FoiizI («'xteiulfil). Tt-.^tli of tli<- usually more or Icsh iiillat.d 

 calyx not twisted: ovary unicellular at the base: capsule with its five valves 

 normally bifid, but sometimes indistinetly so or entire. — Fenzl in Kndl. 1. c. 974. 

 Melnndriiim, Rolil. JXutscli. V\. ed. 2, ii. ;;7, 27 1. Milandryiim of authors in 

 great part. 



* Native species, westeru or arctic: leaves iiarruwiv hmcei.lati-, spaiuLitc or linear; tlie 

 radical usually uumerou.s aud the cauline few. 



•I- Tall: stems erect, usually a foot or more in lieijilit, several -many-Howe red : s|»e<ie« 

 ranging from Winnipeg to the Sierra.s, but chieHy of the Uocky Mountains, tliough ui>t 

 truly alpiue. 



L. Drummondii, Watson. Finely grayish-pubescent tliroughout, often purple-glandular 

 al)ove: rout stout, vertical : stems erect, simple, somewhat rigid : leaves narrow ; the lower 

 ohlauceolatc ; the uj)per lance-linear: flowers ou long usually appres-sed pedicels: calvx in 

 the typical form ol)loug-(ylindric or .scarcely ovate, with green nerves : petals small, incimlcd 

 or scarcely exserted, white or jmrplish, with the short liifid mimUely apjiendaged Idades 

 narrower than the claws: capsule sessile; seeds uniforndy tulM-nled, not distinctly crested. 



— Bot. King Exp. .37, 4:32, & I'roc. Am. Acad. xii. 248. A. (iinliiln, (iniy, Am. .lour. Sei. 

 ser. 2, xxxiii. 405, in part. L. aixtdhi, var. paurijl„ra, I'orter in Ilayden, ]{cp. IMTo, 47.1. 

 Silene Drummondii, Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 89; Torr. & (Jray, Fl. i. IHI, in j.art ; Itohrli. 

 Monogr. Sil. i. 83. S. Srouleri, Wel.her, App. to Cat. Fl. Xeh. ;}(»; Hritton. Hull. Torr. 

 Cluh, XX. 344. Elisanthe Drummondii, Hu])recht, Fl. Cauc. i. 2(X). — K. Minnesota, .V((7- 

 don, and Winnipeg, Boiirgeau, Assinihoia, Mucoun, to the Pacific Slope at Ft. Vancouver 

 and .southward especially in mountainous regions to New Mexico and Arizona; H. summer; 

 very variable, especially in pubescence. A lanate form has been found in the WiMnijK-g 

 Valley, Dourgeuit ; another form with broad thinnish leaves, purple glandular pubescence, 

 and more ovate calyx, iu the Uintas, Watson, aiul at Gray's I'eak, UooLtr &, (jray, 

 Patterson. 



-»- -I— Alpine, bijreal, and arctic species. 



++ Calyx ovate, not strongly inflated : flowers on each stem 3 or ."J, densely aggregated, 



rarely solitary : petals exserted: seeds tuberculatc. 



L. triflora, K. Br. Viscid-tomentose : stems 3 to 8 inches high : leaves thickish, linear- 



olilong, often consi)icuou.sly ciliate : flowers short-pedicelled : caly.x with 10 broad indistinct 



purple or green nerves : petals white or roseate ; blades obcordate ; claws scarcely aurided. 



— U. Br. in Kos.s, Voy. App. cxlii, name only; Somnierfelt, Mag. Naturv. ii. 151, 152 

 (1824) ; Wats. 1. c. 247. L. apctala, var. paiirificra, I)ur. PI. Kane. 189. L.paucijlora, I)ur. 

 I'roc. Acad. Philad. 1863, 94. A'/rostemma trijlma, Don, Syst. i. 417. Melandrium trlfhinim, 

 Liebm. Fl. Dan. t. 235r); Rohrb. Linna;a, xxxvi. 231. ]\'<ilill»njf'lla Iridoni, Frie.s Sumnm 

 Scand. 155. — Creeidand, from Polaris Bay, /irssfl, southward; (Irinnell Land, (Irrfli/. 



Var. Da"Ws6ni, Koiunson. Calyx with principal nerves double or triple, joined l>y 

 interlacing veinlets ; the intermediate nerves beneath the sinuses incons|iicuous or wanting: 

 petals verv narrow; blades oblong, bifid, hardly to be distinguished from the narrow claws. 



— I'roc. Am. Acad, xxviii. 149. — Gravel banks, N. Brit. Columbia, UH) miles northeast of 

 Dea.se Lake, Dr. G. M. Dawson. 



++ ++ Calyx ovate, scarcely inflated: flowers erect or slightly nodding in anthesis : stems 

 usually 1-flowered, occasionally loosely several-flowered. 



= Arctic or sulvarctic sjiecies. 

 L. Taylorse, Kohinson, l. c. 150. Very slender, 1 to Ii feet high, pnberubiit. nearly sm.^.th 

 bilow, irbmdnlar aliove: stem erect, l)earing 3 to 4 pairs of li-aves and two <ir time long 

 slencler almost filiform 1-3-flowered bmnches : leaves thin, lance-linear, acute or nttennnte 

 both ways, finely ciliate, and ])ube.>i<-ent upon the single nerve l.eneath. otherwise glabrat««. 

 2 to 2^ inches in length : flowers terminal or subterminal on the branches: calyx ovatf. inA 

 much inflated, alM.ul 4 lines long, in anthesis only 2 lines in <liameter, with green nerves 

 interlacing above; teeth obtu.se. with broad green membranous ciliate margins: |»otal.« one 

 and a half times ius long as the calyx ; blades ol>cordate, Ij lines hmg, c«>nsidenibly l>nia<ler 



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