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calyx ovoid, 10-striate, finally inflated, including the petals; seeds arilled. 

 — On the Arctic coast from Greenland to Behring Strait, and southward to 

 Labrador and the Saskatchewan ; collected also in the Rocky Mountains of 

 Colorado, and now on the Uinta Mountains, Utah; 12,000 feet altitude; 

 August. The specimens approach closely to the typical form of the species ; 

 stems, (1-flowered, 3-4' high,) nerves of the calyx and margins of the leaves 

 glandular-pubescent ; petals not exceeding the calyx ; seeds large and mar- 

 gined ; filaments and claws of the petals naked. The leaves are thin, nearly 

 glabrous, and scarcely at all ciliated at base. (152.) 



Lychnis Ajanensis, Kegel. (?) Bull. deMosc, 1861, p. 564. Leaves and 

 stem clothed with a dense short pubescence, which becomes glandular above 

 "nd upon the calyx ; leaves ciliated at the base ; petals shortly exserted, pur- 

 plish; claws and filaments ciliated ; seeds small, nearly immarginate. — This 

 plant certainly resembles closely that of Siberia, differing only in the less 

 exserted corolla and in the glandular character of the pubescence. Like the 

 last in size and habit, and growing with it, but distinguishable at sight. (153.) 



Lychnis Deummondi. {Silene Drummondii, Hook. ?) Grlandular-pubes- 

 cent and viscid ; stems erect, strict, simple ; leaves remote, linear- lanceolate 

 raceme loose, few-flowered, with the elongated pedicels alternate or opposite 

 calyx oblong-cylindrical, erect. — Stems several, 1-3° high; flowers 3-5 

 petals white or purplish, the limb 2-lobed or emarginate, scarcely exceeding 

 the calyx, minutely crowned and narrovver than the obtusely strongly auricled 

 claw ; seeds reniform, uniformly tuberculated under the microscope, immar- 

 ginate. The species is reported from Fort Vancouver and east to the 

 Saskatchewan, from Oregon and Northern California, Western Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. The specimens in the herbariums of Dr. 

 Grray and Dr. Torrey differ, like these, from British American specimens as 

 described by Hooker* and by Rohrback, in being decidedly a Lychnis, with 

 5 (very rarely 4) styles, and a 5-(very rarely 4-) toothed capsule, which is 

 also more or less stipitate, and not at all 3-celled at base. In the Weber 

 and Bear River Valleys and in the Uintas ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June- 

 August. (154.) 



Lychnis nuda. Minutely pubescent ; stems erect, slender ; leaves nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate, the cauline nearly linear, 2-3 pairs ; flowers few, (2-5,) 

 on slender alternate pedicels ; calyx obovate, becoming much inflated ; hmb of 

 the pietals 4-lobed, exceeding the calyx ; capsule upon a very short thick 

 stipe; seeds tuberculately margined. — With the habit of Silene Douglasii, 



