78 CARYOPHYLLACE^. sii.ene. 



"This doubtful species is to be distinguished from some forms of .S'. Do«g-^ 

 lasii only by its smaller flowers, more leafy habit and darker, petals. 

 Bobinson Proc. Am. Acad, xxviii, 144. . ' 



S. Douglasii Hook Fl. i, 8.8. Finely pubcrulent throughout and 

 rarely somewhat glandular above: stems numerous erect or asoe,iiding 

 from a branching decumbent rootstock, slender 6-15 inches high, simple 

 few-flowered : leaves narrowly oblanc- olate to linear, an inch or two long : 

 flowers erect on slender pedicels : calyx oblong-cylindric, often somewhat 

 inflated, 5-7 lines long: petals 8-10 lines long, with broad obtuse lobes, a 

 narrow auricled claw and narr w scales : claws, filaments and stipe of the 

 ovary, more or less villous : capsule oblong-ovate equalling the calyx, 

 rather long stipitate seeds strongly tubercled on the back. Rocky places 

 and cliffs, Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 



Var. viscida Robinson Proc. Am. Acad, xxviii, 144. Glandular-viscid 

 especially above: stems erect, rigid, mostly simple from a branched, 

 slightly woody base : calyx broadly oblong or almost campanulate rela- 

 tively short: leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, thickish. Washing- 

 toa to Brit. Columbia. 



S. macrocalyx. S. Douglasii var. macrocalyx Robinson Proc. Am. 

 Acad, xxviii, U5. Puberulen't or nearly smooth scarcely viscid: stems; 

 several from the fleshy root, rather stout 1-2 feet high: leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate to linear, attenuate to each end: flowrs mostly in 3-flowered long- 

 peduncled cymes: calyx long-cylindrical, 8-10 lines long,3-5 lines in diameter, 

 the ends of the teeth surrounded by an obtuse inflexed membrane : petals 

 pink or purplish, 2-lobed: segments obtuse: claw auricled, appendages ob- 

 long, obtuse. On diy ridges. Mount Adams Washington to the Humboldt 

 Mounlains in Nevada. 



S. Columbiana. S. Douglasii var. brachycalyx Robinson I. c. Smooth 

 or puberulent. but not viscid: root thick and branching: stems many fi'om the 

 much branched oaudex, slender, erect, or decumbent at base, 1-2 feet high: 

 leaves distant, spreading, naiTOwly oblanceolate the lower <ines attenuate at 

 both ends, 2-4 inches long: flowers born« in 1-5 flowered Icng-peduncled 

 cymes: calyx campanulate: 6-10 lines long, in fruit 4-6 lines in diameter, 

 strongly 10-nferved, the intervening spaces scarious, the short ti'iangular 

 teeth scarious margined: petals white or pale pink 2-lobed leticulate veined, 

 the blade half as long as the calyx, the claw conspicuously auricled, the 

 prominent scales oblong, shallowly 21obed: capsule ovnid, 5-6 lines long on 

 a stout stipe half as long: seeds dark brown with a prominent pectinate bor- 

 der. On cliffs and rocky hanks along the lower Columbia and 'Willamette 

 rivers . 



S. monantha Watson 1. c. x, 340. Glabrous: stems very weak, elon- 

 gated, ascending, branched: leaves narrowly oblanceolate 1)^-3 inches 

 long, acuminate, shortly ciliate at base: flowers terminal on elongated 

 peduncles, not reflexed: calyx 6 lines long, slightly puberulent: petals 9 

 lines long, the naked claw very narrowly auricled, limb bifid with broad 

 rounded lobes : scales lanceolate entire, half as long as the limb : filaments 

 naked ; style short : ovary oblong, rather long-stipitate. Collected by Kel- 

 logg & Harford near the Cascades of the Columbia : not since found . 



S. Macounil Watson 1. c. xxvi, 124. Stems very slender from a 

 slender bra;nohing rootstock a foot high, minutely pubescent, gland- 

 ular above: leaves linear-oblanceolate, 3 inches long orless: flowers few, 

 on pedicels 6-12 lines long : calyx inflated, oblong-campanulate, 4-5 lines 

 long, with short obtuse teeth : petals little exserted, with a broadly auri- 

 cled glabrous claw and large thin quadrate and nearly entire appendages 

 the flabelliform bifid blade with a linear tooth on each side : capsule 

 equalling the calyx, oblong-ovate, on a stipe l}i lines long. Washington 

 to Brit. Columbia. 



