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lanceolate, sessile: flowers very large, an inch or more in diameter, 
loosely cymose ; the central ones commonly nodding or reflexed aiter 
anthesis : calyx clavate or oblong, 8 lines in length, becoming obovate 
in fruit: petals crimson; the blade broadly lanceolate, 2- (rarely 4-) 
toothed at the apex. — Spec. 419 in part, not Willd.; Bot. Mag. 
t. 3342; Torr. & Gray, F1.i.192; Chapm. Fl. 51. S. Catesbei, Walt. 
Car. 142. S. coccinea, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 306. — Common in 
open woods, on rocky hills, W. New York, S. W. Ontario (ace. to 
Macoun) to Minnesota (acc. to Upham), southward to Georgia and 
Arkansas. 
S. rotundifolia, Nurr. (Rounp-Leavep Carcuriy.)  Viscid- 
pubescent: stems weak, decumbent, branched: leaves rather large 
varying from broadly lanceolate to subrotund, rather abruptly pointed ; 
the lower ones contracted at the base to winged petioles: flowers large, 
showy, scattered or in loose cymes: calyx tubular, 10-13 lines 0 
length, abrupt at the base, becoming clavate but not obovate in fruit: 
petals bright scarlet; the blade 8 lines in length, deeply bifid; the 
lobes more or less toothed: seeds smaller, smoother, and darker col- 
ored than in the preceding. — Gen. i. 288 ; Otth in DC. Prodr. i. 3835 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. i192. Melandryum rotundifolium, Rohrb. Monos: 
Sil. 234, & Linnwa, xxxvi. 257; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431.—S 
Ohio (ace. to Nuttall), Kentucky, and Tennessee, June to August. 
S. regia, Sims. (Royat Carcur ty.) Viscid-glandular above, finely 
pulverulent-pubescent below: stems tall, erect, rather rigid, simple or 
sparingly branched, leafy: leaves ovate, acuminate, 3-7-nerved from 
the rounded sessile base; the lowest more or less contracted below * 
flowers showy, in a narrow oblong panicle: calyx cylindrical, 10-12 
lines long, becoming somewhat spindle-shaped in fruit: petals spat 
late-lanceolate, subentire, scarlet. — Bot. Mag. t. 1724; Sweet’s = - 
Fl. Gard. new ser. t. 313; Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 193. S. Virginiet, 
form, Michx. Fl. i. 272. Melandryum regium, A. Br. Flora, 184 
372; Rohrb. Linnea, xxxvi. 250. — Prairies, Ohio to Alabama and 
westward to Missouri, not abundant. 
+ + Rocky Mountain and Pacific species. t 
++ Flowers large, rather few, scattered: calyx cylindrical or clavate in anthesis, 
8-12 lines long: corolla (except in S. Parishii) usually more than 10 lines 
in breadth; petals 4~«-cleft, very rarely bifid: stems leafy. 
= Seed-coat more or less roughened but firm. 
a. Corolla deep red. | 
S. laciniata, Cav. Finely pubescent: root narrowly fusiform: 
stems erect or decumbent, somewhat rigid, knotty below ; the - 
