140 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
like an involucre; oldest flower with the pedicel curving 
wards, longer than the calyx: sepals nerved, pe w 
margined, lanceolate, 6™" long, apex obtuse or 
petals white, as long as the sepals: capsule a little longer 
the calyx, the valves revolute after opening. 
Type range: “in Scaniae aut Europae australioris pratis.” 
58. Lycunis apetata L. Sp. Pl. 437. 1753.—Stems 
15™ high, glandular-villous: radical leaves obovate to jane 
late, 15™™ long; cauline leaves two pairs: flowers pendulous 
first, later erect: calyx inflated, glandular, having ten pu 
nerves: petals exserted about 2™. 
This is perhaps var. e/atior Regel. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mo STs. : 
the type locality is given as Kodiak island and northward in‘ 
Kotzebue sound (ex Gray’s Syn, FZ. N. Am, 1 : 226). 
-  §9. SILENE acautis L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 603. 1762.—\€ 
often covering broad areas: leaves linear, one-nerved, : 
ciliate on the margins, 5™" long: flowers on pedun 
their own length: calyx purplish with deltoid div 
on the margins: petals rose-color, with sprea : 
-exserted claws: stamens exserted. 
Type range: “in Alpibus Lapponicis, Austriacis, Helveticis, 
This is commonly = as a flowering moss as it covers 
noss. 
60. Si tan LONGIPES Goldie, E dinb: P 
1822.—Stems erect, with erect branches, glauc ae 
shining, glabrous: leaves lanceolate-acuminate had S 
nerved, about 5-Io™™ long, with longer ae: nod 
cymose, the lateral ones with a pair of memt 
below the middle; peduncles long, almost 3™ 
keeled, 2m long, with the margins white-mem! 
petals white, surpassing the sepals: capsule 
the calyx by about 1™, brownish (periars” om 
Type locality: “woods near Lake Ontario.” 
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