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calyx broadly cylindrical, 1°™ long, thin, with ten purple nerves, the 
divisions rounded, 2.5™™ long, 2™™ wide; petals with claws woolly 
and cohering round the thick stipe, gradually broadening to the 
membranous laciniate auricles, 4™™ at top, blades purple, 2-cleft 
with rounded divisions, the lateral teeth short or none, the appen- 
dages bifid and laciniate, 1™™ long; stamens and styles exserted; 
ovary oblong, 4™™ long: fruit unknown. 
Type collected by the author at Monarch Lake near Mineral King, Tulare 
County, California, July 21, 1903. 
This species belongs to the group of high mountain Silenes, including S. 
Grayi, S. Watsoni, and S. Suksdorfii. In appearance and shape of leaves it 
most closely resembles the first, but differs from this and the others in the broader 
auricles, and the bifid, laciniate appendages of the corolla. 
‘ Silene pacifica, n. sp.—Perennial, with thick woody rootstocks; 
stems generally several, erect, 4.5°" high, viscid throughout, espe- 
cially the inflorescence, nodes prominent: leaves rather thin, radical 
and lower cauline oblanceolate to obovate or elliptical, tapering 
at base and decurrent on the long petiole; blade 5-6°™ long, 2-3°™ 
wide, slightly ciliate, sparingly pubescent, obtuse or acute; peti- 
oles margined, dilated and sheathing at base; cauline leaves con- 
nate-clasping at base, 4-5°™ long, the uppermost leaves lanceolate, 
sessile: flowers verticillate in the axils or cymose on short peduncles, 
pedicels 0. 5-2°™ long, the longest equaling the longest floral leaves: 
calyx truncate at base, tubular, becoming somewhat turbinate 
with the enlarging capsule, very viscid, prominently green or pur- 
plish veined, the divisions deltoid, obtuse or acute, 4™™ long, green 
with white or purplish membranous margins, entire calyx 1.5°™ 
long; corolla claret color, the claws of the petals white or tinged 
with claret, 1.5°™ long, attenuate at base and broadening at trun- 
cate summit to 4™™, exserted 5™™, blade deeply cleft, each part 
entire, laciniate, or bilobed, the prominent divaricate teeth on each 
side almost as long as the divisions, more than 1™™, appendages 
laciniate-dentate, 1. 5™™ long; stamens monadelphous at base, 
encircling the stipe and pubescent, glabrous above, varying in length: 
pod 11™™ long, the tips of the three valves stellately reflexed and 
often splitting into five or six over the calyx when the seeds are 
ripe; stipe stout: seeds light brown, slightly pitted, reniform, 2™™ 
wide. 
