76 CABYOPHYLLACEiE. 9ilbnb. 



•H Flowers large rather few ; calyx cylindrical or clavate ! petals 6-7 

 lines long, 4-several-cleft: stems leafy :seedcpftt more or less rough- 

 ened but Arm. 



8. Californlca Durand PI. Pratt. 83. Glandular-pubescent or puberu- 

 lent: stems several from the simple root, Ji-4 feet high, lax, leafy, sim- 

 ple, or branched above : leaves oblanceolate to ovate 1-4 inches long, acute 

 or acuminate ; flowers large, deep scarlet, few at the ends of the branches : 

 pedicels short, the lower deflected in fruit: calyx 7-10 lines long : petals 

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

 oblong-lanceolate : capsule ovate 6 lines long rather shortly stipitate. Cal- 

 ifornia, reaches the southwest corner of Oregon. 



S. Hooker! Nutt. T. & G. Fl. i, 193. White-tomentose, especially 

 above : stems leafy 3-10 inches high, from a deep perpendicular root : 

 leaves spatulate or lanceolate, acute, an inch or so long, attenuate below 

 to a winged petiole : flowers large and showy, on erect pedicels 1-2 inches 

 long; c'alvx oblongrclavate, 8-10 hues long: petals pale pink, twice longer 

 than thecalyx, the broad'claw not auricled, the cuneate blade 1-6 parted 

 with lanceolate or linear entire or bifid segments ; scales lanceolate, de- 

 current upon the claw, ovary roundish, nearly sessile. Prairies and 

 wooded hillsides, Willamette valley to California. 



H- H- Flowers smaller, 6-8 lines in diameter. 

 ++ Flowers borne in the forks of the branches forming a leafy in- 

 florescence. 



S. campannlata Watson Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. Finely gland\ilar 

 pubescent : root thick, simple, caudex branching, somewhat woody : stem 

 6-10 inches high, simple or dichotomously branched at the summit; 

 leaves lanceolate, 1-1 3^ inches long, acute or acuminate ; flowers soht^ry 

 or few, on short deflexed pedicels ; calvx campanulate, 57.6 lines long, the 

 teeth broad, obtuse or acutiah, and finely net-veined; petals pale flesh- 

 color, 9 lines long, with pubescent scarcely auriculate claws, the limb 4- 

 parted nearly to the base, the lobes bifid to the middle, or the lateral ones 

 entire Or notched ; appendages oblong, fleshy, entire ; fllainents pubescent, 

 exserted ; ovary suborbicular, shortly stipitate. In mountains of southtern 

 Oregon and northern California. 



S. Greenii. S. campanidata var. Oreenii Watson in Robinson Proc. 

 Am. Acad, xxviii, 1S7. Pubescent and viscid-glaiidular throughout: 

 root simple ; rootstock branching: stems slender declined or ascending; 

 leaves ovate : calyx green, open campanulate, deeply toothed : petals rather 

 broad, cleft into 4 or more greenish or yellow segments : capsule globular. 

 In the mountains fronX the Cow Creek country to northern California. 



. S. Menziesli Hook. Fl. i, 90 t, 30, S. stellarioides Nutt. T. & G. i, 

 193. finely glandular-pubescent: stems weak, dichotomously branched 

 above : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at each end : flowers small : ca- 

 lyx: 2-4 lines long : petals 2-cleft commonly unappendaged : capsule ovate- 

 oBlong, 2 lines or less broad. Common from Vancouver Island to 

 southern California and the Rocky Mountains and New Mexico. ', 



^- +- Flowers few, rather small, white or nearly so, nodding, borne 

 in a lax naked pannicle : petals cleft into 4 or more narrowly linear almost 

 filifoi-m segments ; styles long exserted. 



.,;S. longlstylis Engelm. in Herb. Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xxii 469. ' 

 Cespitose with a slender much-branched caudex: flnely pubescent through- 

 out, with very Short spreading subglandular hairs : stems slender, 6-12 

 inches high : leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute aft inch long or 

 less, mostly radical, the cauline only 1 or 2 pairs : calyx ovate cylindrical 

 soon becoming ovoid, the teeth broad ovate, petals white, the narrow claw 

 scarcely auricled and very pubescent, the blade cleft nearly to the base, 



