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ascending: leaves lanceolate to narrowly linear, scabrous, ciliolate, 
narrowed to a sessile base: flowers terminal on the branches: calyx 
subcylindric or clavate even in fruit, 10 lines in length: petals bright 
scarlet, 4-cleft or very rarely bifid: capsule oblong scarcely at all ovate, 
commonly exserted at maturity. — Icon. vi. 44, t. 564; Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. xvii. t. 1444; Gray, Pl. Wright. ii. 17; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 
x. 341. S. pulchra, Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 675 in part. S. speciosa, 
Paxt. Mag. of Bot. x. 219. SS. simulans, Greene, Pitt. i. 63. Lychnis 
pulchra, Cham. & Schlecht. Linnza, v. 234.— Central California to 
New Mexico. (Mex.) 
Var. Greggii, Wars. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate, other- 
wise not differing essentially from the type. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 
341, & Bibl. Index, 108. S. Greggit, Gray, Pl. Wright. ii. 17. Melun- 
dryum laciniatum, var. Greggii, Rohrb. Monog. Sil. 232. Melandryum 
Greggit, Rohrb. Linnea, xxxvi. 256. — New Mexico, Wright, Thur- 
ber, Matthews ; Arizona, Buckminster, Lemmon. (Mex., Gregg.) 
S. Californica, Duranp. Root simple, strong, penetrating verti- 
cally to. a depth of 2-3 feet: stems several, procumbent or suberect, 
leafy : leaves lanceolate or ovate elliptic, more or less narrowed to the 
base, acuminate, rarely obtusish: corolla more than an inch broad; 
petals variously cleft, most commonly with two broad lobes flanked by 
two narrower ones: capsule ovoid, concealed until dehiscence by the 
rather broad calyx. — Pl. Pratt. 83; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 64. 
S. pulchra, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 675 in part. S. Virginica, Benth. 
Pl. Hartw. 299. S. laciniata, var. Oalifornica, Gray, Proc. Bost. Soc. 
vii. 146; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 341. SS. Tilingt, Regel, Act. 
Hort. Petrop. i. 99. Melandryum Oalifornicum, Rohrb. Linnza, 
Xxxvi. 252.— Coast Mts. of Currie Co., Oregon (Howell), southward 
through N. and Central California to Ft. Tejon (Xanthus), and per- 
haps farther. Subject to much variation in foliage, the following being 
perhaps the best marked of the varieties. 
Var. subcordata. Leaves ovate, suborbicular, shortly acuminate, 
closely sessile by subcordate bases. — Blue Cafion, Kellogg (1870), 
Brandegee (1888). 
b. Corolla white or nearly so. 
S. Wrightii, Gray. Very glutinous: rootstock thick, ligneous: 
stems several, ascending, a foot or more in length, branching, leafy : 
leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 14-2 inches long, sessile; the lower 
attenuate below : calyx teeth filiform-attenuate, nearly half as long as— 
the tube : petals white, 4-cleft; the lobes somewhat toothed : capsule i 
on a stipe of nearly its own length. — Pl. Wright. ii, 17; Wats. Bibl. i 
