Silene. CARYOPHYLLACE.E. 55 



ones shorter ; appendages linear, entire, half the length of the limb ; claw slightly 

 villous, without auricles : filaments slightly exserted : stipe 3 lines long, as long as 

 the oblong ovary. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 343. 

 Big Meadows, Plumas Co., Lemvion. 



11. S. montana, Watson. Puberulent: the stems slender, from a decumbent 

 branching perennial base, mostly simple, a foot high : leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 

 1 J to 2 inches long, acuminate : flowers in a narrow panicle, erect upon usually 

 short pedicels : calyx cylindrical, 7 to 9 lines long, the oblong teeth acutish : petals 

 apparently rose-colored, scarcely longer ; the broad blade deeply 4-cleft into linear 

 entire equal segments ; claws naked, the auricles and broad ovate appendages some- 

 what lacerate : capsule oblong, the stipe 2 lines long. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 343. 



Near Carson City (Anderson), and in Sierra Valley, Sierra County, Lcmmon. A perhaps dis- 

 tinct form from the Blue Mountains, Oregon, has the short quadrate limb barely notched, the 

 coronal appendages and auricles entire or nearly so, and the stipe shorter. 



12. S. Palmeri, Watson. Puberulent with short spreading hairs, the inflores- 

 cence glandular : stems slender, a foot high, from a branching rootstock : leaves 

 oblanceolate, an inch long : flowers purplish, on slender pedicels in an open panicle : 

 calyx four lines long ; teeth short : petals very narrow, half an inch long ; blade 

 4-parted into linear entire or bifid lobes ; appendages linear ; claw not auricled, and 

 with the filaments very villous : styles and stamens much exserted : capsule oblong, 

 exceeding the calyx ; stipe about a line long : seeds tubereulate, not crested. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xi. 124. 



Cuiamaea Mountains, San Diego Co., Dr. Edward Palmer. 



S. Orf.oasa, Watson, also from the Blue Mts., Oregon, may extend into California. It has 

 its petals 2-parted, with filiform bifid segments, very narrow claws with the auricles produced up- 

 ward, and a long-stipitate capsule. 



■f- +- Petals bifid. 



13. S. pectinata, Watson. Viscidly pubescent : stems erect, stout, simple or 

 branched, 1 to 1 i feet high, several from a stout perpendicular root : leaves lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 1£ to 2\ inches long, the radical long-petioled : flowers in a narrow strict 

 or spreading panicle, erect on pedicels i to 1 inch long : calyx oblong, 6 to 9 lines 

 long, cleft nearly to the middle into narrow acute teeth : petals dark ruse-color or 

 purple, about an inch long; claw naked, not auricled ; Made broadly oblong, deeply 

 bifid with obtuse segments; appendages lanceolate, entire: ovary oblong, nearly 

 sessile : seeds finely tubereulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 344. 



Near Cars.. n city (. tnd. ,-*,. ,i) ; Walker's Meadows (Jlinnr); Plumas and Sierra counties, ifrs. 

 II. E. I'. Ames ana Lemmoiu 



14. S. incompta, Gray. Viscidly puberulent or pubescent : stems fall and lax, 

 simple or somewhat branched : leaves broadly lanceolate, acute, 1 J to 2.V inches long: 

 flowers on slender rather short pedicels loosely racemose: calyx oblong-cylindric, 

 six lines long, the oblong teeth acute: petals a half longer, light rose-color ; lobes 

 OVate-oblong, often toothed ; claws naked, very narrowly auricled ; appendages short, 

 toothed : capsule ovate, not exceeding the calyx, very shortly stipitate : seeds small, 

 not tubereulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 330. S. Engelmanni, Rohrb. 1. c. 204. 



Mount Bullion and Yoseniite Volley, Bolander, Torrey. 



15. S. verecunda, Watson. Glandular-pubescent : stems low, clustered, erect, 



simple, 8 to 10 inches high : leaves oblanceolate, acute, an inch or two long : flowers 

 few in a l....se panicle, erect, upon Btoul and mostly elongated pedicels .', to an inch 

 long: calyx oblong-cylindric, half an inch long; teeth acutish, triangular: p 

 rose-color, ti ball' longer ; blade oblong, clefl to the mi, I, lie into linear entire lobes; 



appendages notched at the apex ; claw naked, narrowly auricled : filaments included : 



ovary oblong, shortly stipitate: capsule oblong-ovate, exceeding the calyx: 



