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what caulescent form, with very slender elongated leaves 1-1} inches 
in length, has been found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, JJiss 
Eastwood, and Arizona, Rothrock. It is connected, however, with the 
typical form by gradual transitions. 
* * * Caulescent perennials. 
+ Eastern and Southern species. 
++ Calyx inflated, flowers white or pink, scattered or panicled. 
S. Cucusarus, Wibel. (BiapperR Campron:) Glaucous: stems 
ascending, a foot or more in height, leafy below, smooth or somewhat 
rough-pubescent: leaves opposite, usually lanceolate, acute: bracts 
much smaller : flowers polygamo-dicecious : calyx campanulate to sub- 
globose, strongly inflated, glabrous, finely reticulated between the incon- 
spicuous nerves : petals narrow, 2-cleft, scarcely crowned, white or pink. 
— Prim. Fl. Werth. 241; Rohrb. 1. c. 84; Gray’s Man. ed. 6, 84. &. 
inflata, Smith, F]. Brit. ii. 467 ; Gray’s Man. ed. 5, 89; Warming, Bot. 
Foren. Festskr. 1890, 258. Oucubalus Behen, L. Spec. 414. — Fields 
and roadsides, New Brunswick to Illinois. (Nat. from Europe.) 
S. nivea, Orrn. Stem smooth or minutely pubescent above, 1}-3 
feet in height : leaves opposite, lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate, smooth 
or pulverulent-pubescent: flowers rather few, nodding, borne in the 
forks of the branches: bracts foliar: calyx oblong in anthesis, fine 
pubescent or smooth; nerves inconspicuous, anastomosing, the teetl 
short, triangular, obtuse: petals cuneate-obovate, bearing two short, 
blunt appendages. — Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 377; Torr. & Gray, Fl} 
190; Rohrb. I. c. 87. 8. alba, Muhl. Cat. 45 (nomen subnudum). 
Cucubalus niveus, Nutt. Gen. i. 287. — Pennsylvania and Washing: 
ton, D. C., to S. Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota ; rare. 
S. stellata, Arr. (Starry Campion.) Stems 2-3 feet high : leaves 
in whorls of 4 (the lowest sometimes opposite), ovate-lanceolate, pe 
minate, 2—3 inches long, half as broad: flowers in an open panicle: 
calyx campanulate, 4-5 lines in length; the teeth broad, acon 
petals laciniately cleft, unappendaged. —Kew. ed. 2, iii. 84 ; Tort. Fi. 
N. Y. i. 100, t. 16. Cueubalus stellatus, L. Spec. 414; Sims, Bot. 
Mag. t. 1107. — Woodland, frequent, S. New England to Minnesota, 
southward to Virginia and Texas. 
++ ++ Calyx not inflated, distended only by the enlarging capsule. 
= HKlowers white or rose-colored. 
S. ovata, Pursu. Pubescent or smooth: stems several from the 
same root, 2—4 feet in height ; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, ae Bf 
ate-acuminate, 3-5 nerved from the rounded base, sessile, subconnale a 
3-5 inches long: flowers borne in a narrow terminal leafless re 
