32 CARYOPHYLLACE^E. (PINK FAMILY.) 



* Annual : flowers in naked panicles : petals entire or obcordate, crowned. 



1. S. antirrhina, L. Glabrous, with a. part of each joint viscid, erect, 

 Blender : leaves lanceolate or linear : flowers in a. diehotomous panicle, on 

 long pedicels : calyx becoming expanded by the enlarging ovary : petals pink. 



— Prom S. Colorado to British America and eastward across the continent ; 

 also in California. 



* * Perennial : petals bifid. 

 -t- Peduncles \-flowered: stems spreading or decumbent. 



2. S. Menziesii, Hook. Glandular-puberulent : stems dichotomously 

 branched, leafy : leaves ovate-lanceolate or -oblong : peduncles lateral and 

 terminal, equalling the leaves : petals without a crown : seeds minutely tuber- 

 culate, at length nearly black and shining. — From New Mexico to Slav* 

 Lake and westward to California. 



•*- -t- Peduncles 3- to many-flowered : stems erect. 



3. S. multicaulis, Nutt. Minutely pubescent: stems numerous, about 

 a foot high, rigid : leaves linear-oblanceolate ; upper ones very small : flowers in 

 threes on shortish peduncles, pale red : calyx ovate-cylindrical : seeds brown, 

 margined with a scaly crest. — From the western slopes of the mountains to 

 the Pacific. 



4. S. Douglasii, Hook. Minutely pubescent : stem simple, very slender, 

 2 to 3 feet high : leaves remote, linear, elongated : flowers few on slender peduncles, 

 rose-color or nearly white: calyx obovate, at length inflated aud membranaceous, 

 pubescent. — Montana to Washington and southward to California and the 

 Wasatch. 



5. S. Scouleri, Hook. Stem stout: leaves distant, narrow: racemes sub- 

 compressed, narrow, few-flowered : calyx somewhat dilating, the teeth broad- 

 lanceolate, slightly ciliate : petals white or pinkish, the broad bifid limb with 

 notched lobes and appendages ; claws auricled, woolly-ciliate as well as the filaments 



— In the mountains from New Mexico to British America. 



* * # Perennial, dwarf, tufted, smooth: flowering shoots l-flowered : petals 

 notched or entire, crowned. 



6. S. acaulis, L. Tufted like a moss : leaves linear, crowded : flower* 

 almost sessile, or rarely on a naked peduncle : petals purple or rarely white. 



— Alpine summits of the whole Rocky Mountain range, and northward to 

 Arctic America : also in the White Mountains of N. H. 



2. LYCHNIS, L. Cockle. 



Calyx more or less inflated, capsule 5 to 10-toothed, and styles as many a» 

 calyx-lobes ; otherwise nearly as in Silene. — Ours are perennials with lineaw 

 to oblanceolate leaves. 



* Stems l-ftowered: seeds with a loose membranous margin: dwarf and cespitost, 

 i alpine. 



1. L. montana, Watson. Glandular-pubescent above, nearly glabrous below .- 

 petals included or nearly so, the emarginate blade not broader than the very narrow 

 claw; appendages very small: seeds rather broadly margined. — The L. 

 apetala of the Fl. Colorado and other Western reports. Mountain peaks of 

 Colorado, and in the Uintas. 



