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Index, 110. Melandryum Wrightii, Rohrb. Linnea, xxxvi. 253; 
Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431.— Mountain sides near the copper mines, 
New Mexico, Wright (862). 
S. Hookeri, Nurr. Covered above with a fine grayish pubescence: 
root single, stout: stems several, short, slender, decumbent: leaves 
oblanceolate, rather numerous and approximate, 2—3 inches in length, 
acute or obtusish: flowers very large: calyx teeth acute, but not fili- 
form: petals 4-cleft, white or pink. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 193; 
Bot. Mag. t. 6051; FI. d. Serres, t. 2093; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. x. 
341; Brew. & Wats. l.c. i. 64. SS. Bolanderi, Gray, Proc. Am. 
Acad. vii. 330, & viii. 378; Bolander, Cat. 6. Melandryum Hookeri, 
and M. Bolanderi, Rohrb. 1. c.; Wats. Bot. King Exp. 431. — Wood- 
lands, W. Oregon and N. W. California. 
= = Seed-coat vesicularly roughened, or crested. 
S. Parishii, Wars. Grayish pubescent: root simple, thick, with 
a branching rootstock: stems several, decumbent, a span long: leaves 
lanceolate, acuminate, sessile, 1-2 inches long; the lower oblanceolate : 
flowers aggregated at the ends of the branches: calyx tubular, narrowed 
below, an inch long, with narrow subulate teeth 3-4 lines in length: 
petals narrow, scarcely exserted from the calyx, cleft into 4 or more 
filiform segments: seeds doubly crested with short vesicular hairs. — 
Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 366. — San Bernardino Mts., California, S. B. 
& W. F. Parish. 
++ ++ Flowers smaller, not ordinarily exceeding 6-8 lines in diameter. 
= Flowers borne in the forks of the branches forming a leafy inflorescence: 
calyx oblong or campanulate: leaves lanceolate or ovate. 
S.campanulata, Warts. Finely glandular-pubescent : root thick, 
simple: rootstock branching, somewhat woody: stem slender, erect, 
leafy: leaves sessile, lanceolate: flowers on short deflexed peduncles : 
calyx green, broadly campanulate, reticulate-veined, toothed nearly 0 
the middle: petals narrow; the limb cleft into 4 or more flesh-colo 
segments : capsule globular, 3-4 lines in diameter. — Proc. Am. A 
x. 341; Brew. & Wats. l. c. i. 63.— Mountainous districts of N. 
California and S. Oregon. . 
Var. (?) Greenei, Wars. ined. More pubescent throughout: 
leayes ovate: petals greenish white. — Yreka, Calif., Gveene ; Cal 
ville and Wolf Creek, Oregon, Howell Brothers ; Ashland, Oreg?” 
Henderson. Apparently the commoner form. | 
S. Menziesii, Hoox. Finely glandular-pubescent: stems weak, 
leafy, dichotomously branched above, 6 inches to a foot or more 
