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2. S. Gallica, Linn. Slender, 1 ft. high, sparingly branched or 

 nearly simple, hirsute: leaves spatulate, 1 — 1% i n - long: fl. racemose on 

 very short pedicels, rose-color: petals with obovate entire blade and small 

 appendages. — The commonest weed of fields and waysides; the small 

 flowers usually forming a one-sided spike or raceme; the petals not 

 withering so early in the day as in other species. Mar. — June. 



3. S. bacbmosa, Otto. Stoutish, rather roughly pubescent, X% — 2 ft. 

 high, dichotomously racemose from near the base: leaves lanceolate: fl. 

 white, fragrant, 14 i n - broad, unilateral: blade of petal cuneate-obovate, 

 deeply bifid. — Occasional in fields about Berkeley; flowers pure white, 

 very fragrant, strictly vespertine, about twice as large as those of 

 S. Gallica and quite showy. 



4. S. multinervis, Wats. Erect, 1 ft. high, pubescent throughout, 

 viscid-glandular above . leaves oblong-linear, acute : inflorescence 

 cymose: calyx ovate, 5 lines long, conspicuously 20 — 25 nerved: petals 

 small, purplish, unappendaged, not exceeding the subulate spreading 

 calyx-teeth. — Mt. Tamalpais and southward. 



* * Perennials. 



5. S. inplata, Smith. Bather slender, 2 ft. high, glabrous: leaves 

 obovate and oblanceolate to lanceolate-acuminate: cyme dichotomous 

 and loose: calyx inflated, ovoid, with deltoid teeth, the nerves fine and 

 numerous: petals large, white, bifid: capsule round-ovoid. — Naturalized 

 about Vallejo, Mr. Towle. 



6. S. Californica, Durand. Puberulent and more or less glandular, 

 4 in. to 4 ft. high, simple or sparingly branched above : leaves ovate to 

 oblanceolate, Vyi — 4 in. long, acute or acuminate: fl. large, on short pedi- 

 cels: calyx 7 — 10 lines long: petals scarlet, deeply parted, the segments 

 bifid, their lobes 2 — 3-toothed or entire, often with a linear lateral tooth; 

 appendages oblong-lanceolate: capsule % in. long, ovate, short-stipitate. 

 — Coast hills. 



7. S. verecunda, Wats. Pubescent and viscid throughout: stems 

 %—\% ft. high, erect or decumbent: leaves oblanceolate, acute, 1—2 in. 

 long: fl. few, erect, on stoutish pedicels % — 1 in. long: calyx oblong- 

 cylindric, % in. long; teeth triangular, acutish: petals % in. long, rose- 

 color; limb bifid to the middle; lobes linear, the inner entire, outer com- 

 monly with a tooth near the base; appendages notched at apex; claw 

 narrowly auricled: capsule oblong-ovate: seeds strongly tubercled on the 

 back. — San Francisco peninsula from near the Presidio and the Mission 

 Hills to Point San Pedro; also on Mt. Diablo. 



4. CERASTIUM, Dillen. (Mouse-ear Chickweed). Soft-pubescent 

 and slightly clammy low herbs, with white flowers in leafy- or scarious- 

 bracted dichotomous cymes. Sepals 5, neither carinate nor 3-nerved. 



