Silene. CARYOPHYLLACE.E. g3 



Low : leaves narrow : claw narrowly auricled : stipe short : seed 



strongly tuberculate on the back. 15. S. verecuxda. 



Puberulent : leaves narrow : claw broadly auricled : stipe rather long : 



seed tubercled. 17. S. Docglasii. 



Petals white, very narrow ; lobes linear : styles long-exserted. 16. S. Bridgesii. 



§ 1. Calyx campanulate, inflated: flowers few in a loose panicle or paniculate raceme: 



perennials. 



1. S. campanulata, Watson. GlanJular-puberulent : stems erect, 6 to 10 

 inches high, simple or diehotomously branched at the summit : leaves lanceolate, 

 1 to H inches long, acute or acuminate : flowers solitary or few, on short nodding 

 pedicels: calyx 5 to 6 lines long, finely net-veined, the teeth broad and acute or 

 acutish : petals pale flesh-color, 9 lines long ; claws pubescent, narrowly auricled ; 

 blade 4-parted, the lobes bitid or the lateral ones entire or notched ; appendages ob- 

 long, entire : filaments pubescent, exserted : ovary subglobose, shortly stipitate. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342. 



Red Mountain, Mendocino County, Bolander, Kellogg. 



2. S. Lyallii, Watson. Glabrous except the subglandular puberulent inflores- 

 cence : stems slender, ascending : leaves linear-oblanceolate, 1 to 2 inches long : 

 flowers few in a dichotomous cyme, erect on slender pedicels : calyx 4 lines long, 

 net-veined above ; teeth broad, obtuse : petals brownish purple, 7 lines long ; blade 

 oblong, shortly bifid ; claw naked, scarcely auricled ; appendages oblong, entire : 

 anthers included : ovary narrowly oblong. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342. 



In Gold Lake and Sierra Valleys, Sierra County, Lcmmon. Cascade Mountains, Washington 

 Territory, Lyall. 



What appears to be another species of this group, with pendulous flowers, has been collected in 

 the Sierra Nevada above Cisco, but the material is too meagre for a specific description. The 

 flowers are clustered, on short pedicels ; calyx greenish, 4 to 5 lines long ; blade shortly bifid, 

 obscurely toothed at the side, and with short entire appeudages ; inflorescence puberulent. 



S. Mux vntiia, Watson, 1. c, the one other western species with inflated calyx, has been found 

 only at the falls of the Columbia. It is distinguished by weak elongated stems, the long-pedun- 

 culate flowers terminal and solitary, not dellexed, aud the limb of the petals bifid. 



§ 2. Calyx oblong-cylindric or clavale, becoming expanded by the enlarging ovary. 



* Annuals: flowers small, solitary, racemose or panicled : capsule ovoid, very shortly 



stipitate, 3 to 4 lines long. 



3. S. Gallic a, Linn. Villous-pubescent : leaves spatulate, 1 to li inches long: 

 flowers on very short pedicels, racemose, 4 to 5 lines long, the rose-colored petals 

 little exceeding the calyx. 



A European species now widely distributed. Abundant in many localities near the coast. 



4. S. antirrbina, Linn. Glabrous, with a p:nt of each joint viscid, erect, slen- 

 der, 1 to 2| feel high: leaves lanceolate or linear : flowers in a naked dichotomous 

 panicle, on long pedicels: petals nbovate, minutely appendaged, equalling the calvx. 

 — Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xiv.- 292, t. 66. 



Throughout California, but apparently rare, ranging north to British Columbia and eastward 

 across the continent. 



* * Perennials, spreading or decumbent, usually low: inflorescence leafy. 



5. S. Menziesii, Hook. Glandular-puberulent : stems numerous, weak and 

 ascending, diehotomously branched, »> to 12 inches high, leafy : leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late or oblong, acute or acuminate at each end, an inch or two long: peduncles 

 1 -flowered, lateral and terminal, equalling the leaves: petals bifid, without crown, 

 3 oi Nines long, exceeding the ovate calyx, white : capsule ovate-oblong, shortly 

 Btipil it ■ : seeds minutely tuberculate, af length nearly black and shining. — Book. 

 Fl. i. 99, t. 30. S. 1 >„',;■;;, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 44, lig. 12. 



