64 CARYOPHYLLACEiE. Silene. 



From Mono Lake to the British boundary and frequent in the mountains eastward, from Slave 

 Lake to New Mexico. 



6. S. Hookeri, ]Nutt. Somewhat wbite-tomentose, especially above, the leafy- 

 stems 3 to 10 inches high from a deep perpendicular root : leaves spatulate, acute, 

 an inch or two long : flowers 1 to 5, large, erect, on pedicels 1| inches long : calyx 

 oblong-clavate, 8 to 10 lines long : petals pale-pink, twice longer than the calyx, 

 the broad claw ciliate below, the cuneate blade 4 - 6-parted with lanceolate or linear 

 entire or bifid segments ; appendages lanceolate, decurrent upon the claw : ovary 

 nearly sessile. — Torr. & Gray, PI. i. 193; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 6051. S. Bol- 

 anderi, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, vii, 330. Melandryum Hookeri & M. Bolanderi, 

 Eohrb. in Linna?a, xxxvi. 254. 



Wooded hillsides, from Plumas and Mendocino counties to the Columhia River. 



7. S. Californica, Durand. Glandular-pubescent or puberulent : stems £ to 2 

 feet high, lax, leafy, somewhat branched above : leaves oblanceolate to ovate, 1-|- to 

 4 inches long, acute or acuminate : flowers large, deep scarlet, few at the ends of 

 the branches : pedicels short, the lower deflected in fruit : calyx 7 to 10 lines long : 

 petals deeply parted, with bifid segments, the lobes 2 - 3-toothed or entire, with 

 often a linear lateral one ; appendages oblong-lanceolate : capsule ovate, J inch long, 

 rather shortly stipitate. — PL Pratten. 83. S. laciniata, var. Californica, Gray ; 

 Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. Melandryum Californicum, Eohrb. 1. c. 252. 



From Mendocino and Placer counties to Santa Cruz, Fort Tejon, and the Mariposa Grove. It 

 probably extends southward in the Coast Ranges to San Diego. The flowers much resemble those 

 of the next species, to which it has been referred. 



* * % Erect perennials, with the flowers in a panicle or racemose-paniculate, the floral 



bracts small and narrow. 



+- Petals i-parted or i-cleft. 



8. S. laciniata, Cav. Pubescent with more or less viscid hairs or puberulent : 

 stems erect or ascending from a thick woody rootstock, 1 to 1 \ feet high : leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate to linear, 2 to 3 inches long : flowers one or few on the elon- 

 gated branches, large, bright scarlet, on pedicels |- to 3 inches long, not reflexed in 

 fruit : petals deeply 4-cleft with linear acute lobes, the lateral ones spreading and 

 shorter ; appendages ovate : capsule oblong, shortly stipitate, not greatly distending 

 the calyx : seed strongly tuberculate on the back. — Icon. vi. 44, t. 564 ; Lincll. 

 Eot. Eeg. xvii. t. 1444. Lychnis pulchra, Cham. & Schlecht. Melandryum lacini- 

 atum, Eohrb. 1. c. 



From the Sacramento southward in^o Mexico, and eastward to New Mexico. 



9. S. Lemmoni, "Watson. Glabrous or puberulent, the inflorescence glandular : 

 stems erect from a decumbent perennial branching base, slender, 8 to 12 inches 

 high, branched : leaves mostly on the young shoots, an inch long, spatulate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute : flowers in an open panicle, erect or at length deflexed, on 

 slender pedicels 4 to 9 lines long : calyx ovate-cylindric, 4 lines long, the teeth 

 acutely triangular : petals rose-colored, 6 to 8 lines long ; the broad blade 4-cleft 

 nearly to the base, with linear entire or notched lobes ; the lanceolate appendages 

 entire and the villous claw narrowly auricled : ovary oblong, very shortly stipitate. 

 — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 342. 



Webber Lake Valley, Sierra Co., Lemmon. 



10. S. occidentalis, Watson. Glandular-puberulent, or below somewhat tomen- 

 tose : stems often stout, erect from a vertical rootstock, l-£ to 2 feet high, simple or 

 branching : leaves oblanceolate, 2 to 4 inches long, acute, the lower ciliate at base : 

 flowers in an open panicle, erect or sometimes nodding, on slender pedicels 6 to 15 

 lines long : calyx cylindrical, 6 to 8 lines long, the teeth ovate and obtuse : petals 

 deep purple, one half longer, deeply 4-cleft into nearly equal lobes or the lateral 



