1382 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 
Man. ed. 6, 85. — Roadsides and cultivated grounds, June to Septem- 
ber. (Nat. from Eur.) 
= = Smooth or nearly so, a part of each of the upper internodes glutinous. 
S.antirrhina, L. (Sieepy or SnappraGcon Carcurty.) Stem 
6 inches to 3 feet in height: leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, com- 
monly acute: flowers rather numerous, small, ephemeral, borne in a 
compound cyme ; pedicels long, filiform: calyx smooth, green, ovoid 
in fruit, about 4 lines long, contracted above; the teeth short: ovary 
scarcely stiped: petals small, pink or white, more or less emarginate 
or bifid. — Spec. 419 ; Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 876; Torr. & Gray, FI. 
i. 191; Rohrb. 1. c. 173; Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. 2, t. 66. Saponaria 
dioica, Cham. & Schlecht. Linnza, i. 38. — Waste places, common, 
widely distributed throughout the United States and Canada (also S. 
Am.) ; very variable in size and foliage. 
Var. linaria, Woop. “Very slender: leaves all linear except the 
lowest which are linear-spatulate ; calyx globular. Ga. and Fla.” — 
Wood, Class-Book, ed. of 1861, 256, & Bot. & Fl. 53; Wats. Bibl. 
Index, 107. 
Var. divaricata. Very slender : leaves linear or lance-linear, not 
exceeding an inch in length: branches filiform divaricate : calyx ovoid, 
‘ 2-2} lines long; petals wanting. — Rockford, Ill, MZ. S. Bebb, G. D. 
Swezey. 
S. Armeri, L. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic: flowers borne at 
the ends of the branches in small close cymes: pedicels short: calyx 
slender, clavate, 6-8 lines long: ovary long-stiped: petals pink, sub- 
entire or minutely toothed ; appendages lanceolate acute. — Spec. 420; 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 194; Reichb. 1. ¢. vi. t. 284. — Occasionally 
found on roadsides and in fields, having escaped from gardens. 
* * Perennial, subacaulescent, very low and densely matted. 
S. acaulis, L. (Moss Campron.) Closely cespitose, an inch or 
two in height : leaves linear, crowded on the branching rootstocks : flow- 
ers small, 2-3 lines in diameter, subsessile or raised on naked curved 
peduncles 2-6 lines long: calyx narrowly campanulate, 2-3 lines long, 
glabrous ; the teeth short, rounded: petals purplish, rarely white, en- 
tire, retuse or bifid, minutely appendaged. — Spec. ed. 2, 603; Reichb. 
Icon. Fl. Germ. vi. t. 270. Oucubalus acaulis, L. Spec. 415. Lychnis 
acaulis, Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 806.— An arctic and high alpine 
Species, widely distributed and somewhat variable. Arctic America 
to the White Mts. ; extending along the Rocky Mts. from Alaska to 
Arizona, also found in the Cascade Mts. (Eur. and Asia.) A some- 
