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not auriculate ; the limb deeply 4-cleft ; the segments entire or bifid: 
seeds large for the genus, tuberculate, ash-colored at maturity. — Proc. 
Am. Acad. xi. 124; Brew. & Wats. 1. ¢. i. 65. —S. California, Cucamaca 
Mts., Palmer ; San Bernardino Mts., Parish ; San Rafael Mts., Ford. 
= = = Inflorescence as in the preceding: petals 2-cleft into linear segments: 
styles very long, the exserted portion as long as the calyx. 
S. Bridgesii, Rours. Pubescent and viscid: stems leafy, usually 
simple up to the inflorescence, a foot or more in height: leaves sessile, 
lanceolate, acute, 14-2 inches long: flowers slender-pedicelled, verti- 
cillately racemose or somewhat paniculate, nodding: calyx narrowly 
oblong or clavate in anthesis, broadly obovate in fruit; the teeth acute; 
the principal nerves broad, green; the commissural much narrower, 
seldom anastomosing with the others: petals }—? inch long, consider- 
ably exserted, white or purplish : seeds very large, finely tuberculate, 
red. — App. Ind. Sem. Berol. 1867, 5, & Monog. Sil. 204; Wats. Proc. 
Am. Acad. x. 342; Brew. & Wats. l. c. i. 66. S. incompta, Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 3830=S. Engelmanni, Rohrb. Linnza, xxx¥i. 
264, is a form of the same species, differing from the type only in the 
somewhat broader lobes of the petals and in the obtuse appendages. 
— Yosemite Valley, Bridges, Gray; Mt. Bullion, Bolander ; Danab, 
Congdon. A closely similar if not identical plant has been found by 
Rattan on the Klamath River in N. California. 
= = = = Flowers scattered, or variously paniculate: styles included oF 
somewhat exserted, but not so long as in the preceding. 
a. Fruiting calyx ovate, not contracted below, filled and distended by the sub- 
sessile capsule. 
S. Thurberi, Wats. Densely grayish-pubescent and glandular: 
stems erect, 2 feet high, somewhat rigid, with ascending branches ® 
leaves lanceolate, acute, contracted below, sessile, 2-4 inches long: 
flowers small, rather numerous: calyx cylindric becoming narrowly 
ovate, green-and-white striped, densely pubescent; the teeth slender 
with fimbriate laciniate margin : petals white, little exceeding the 
lyx; the claw rather broad with upwardly produced auricles ; blade 
bifid with short oblong lobes, each with a small lateral tooth ; app” 
dages oblong, obtuse: capsule narrowly ovoid, scarcely stiped : 
tuberculate and distinctly crested. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 343. S. ph- 
cata, Wats. 1. c. xvii. 366. — Near Janos, S. W. New Mexico, Thurber ; 
peak south of Rucker Valley, Lemmon. (Mexico, Pringle.) 
S. pectinata, Wars. Stems several, erect, 14-24 feet high: leaves 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate; the lower long, tape™ 
ing into winged petioles; the upper more or less reduced: flowers 
