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2. S. antirrhina L. Sleepy Oatchfly. Erect, slender, spar- 

 ingly branched, 1 to IJ- ft. high; leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, 

 1 in. long; inflorescence paniculate; pedicels 1 in. long, more or less, 

 filiform; flowers small; petals pink or red, the blade emarginate, 1 

 line long; appendages minute; capsule ovoid, 3 lines long. 



Distributed throughout California but nowhere common: Mt. 

 Shasta, Jepson; region of San Francisco Bay. 



3. S. Gallica L. Erect, simple or sparingly branched, 10 to 15 

 in. high, hirsute or hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves spatulate- 

 obovate, 1 to IJ in. long; flowers in a mostly 1-sided raceme on very 

 short (1 to 2 lines long) pedicels; petals white or flesh-color, the blades 

 obovate and entire and appendages small; ovary almost completely 

 3-celled. 



Introduced from Europe, the most common species, found every- 

 where in fields and along roadsides. Apr.-May. The petals are 

 commonly twisted one-fourth round or nearly so, thus resembling the 

 fans of a turbine windmill. 



S. DICHOTOMA Ehrh. Vespertine Old "World annual with inflores- 

 cence dichotomous and racemose; flowers white, J in. broad. — Occa- 

 sional in fields about Berkeley, ace. to Greene. S. CirciTBALUS Ur- 

 bel, the Bladder Campion, another Old World weed, is naturalized at 

 Vallejo, ace. to &reene. It is perennial with white flowers and an 

 inflated calyx. 



4. S. Californica Durand. Indian Pink. Root thick and stout, 

 descending vertically to a depth of 1 or 2 ft. ; herbage puberulent and 

 more or less glandular; stems several, procumbent or half erect, very 

 leafy; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate to oblanceolate, more or less 

 abruptly acuminate, 1 to 3 in. long; pedicels J to IJ in. long; calyx 

 7 to 10 lines long; corolla scarlet, more than 1 in. broad; petals deeply 

 cleft, the segments bifid with the lobes 2 to 3-toothed or the lateral 

 smaller and entire; appendages conspicuous, with 3 or 4 minute 

 notches; capsule ovoid, concealed until dehiscence by the broad calyx; 

 seeds regularly papillate, the papillae with a depression in the center. 



Open woods of caiions and hillsides both in the Sierras and Coast 

 Eanges. June. 



5. S. verecunda "Wats. Finely pubescent below, glandular- 

 viscid above; stems several, erect or decumbent, 1 to IJ ft. long, leafy 

 especially near the base; leaves mostly linear-lanceolate (or those 

 below broadly oblong), all acute; flowers terminal or borne in 

 3-flowered lateral cymes, the pedicels short and stout; calyx cylindric, 

 i in. long, or becoming clavate or obovate as the fruit develops; 

 calyx-teeth with membranous margins; petals 9 lines long, rose- 

 color the limb cleft to the middle into entire or slightly toothed 

 oblong lobes; appendages oblong or lanceolate, obtuse and often 

 notched at the apex. 



Not common: Mt. Diablo; San Francisco Peninsula; Pt. Keyes, 

 ace. to Davy; southward to Southern California. May-July. 



3. AGROSTEMMA L. 



Tall annual, sparingly branched above, with linear ex-stipulate 



