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purplish rose-colored, 6-8 lines broad: calyx becoming ovate in fruit: 
the teeth lance-linear to filiform, elongated, usually exceeding the 
mature capsule: petals with a narrow claw destitute of auricles; the 
blade obovate, bifid; the lobes rounded; the appendages lanceolate, 
entire : capsule large, ovate. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 344; Brew. & 
Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 65.— Plumas Co., Calif., Mrs. Ames; Sierra Co., 
Lemmon ; Carson City, Nev., Anderson. The typical form is very 
viscid glandular and somewhat branched. 
Var. subnuda. Scarcely viscid: stems subsimple: radical leaves 
almost smooth, the cauline much reduced. — Near Empire City and at 
Franktown, Nev., M. E. Jones. 
b. Capsule distinctly stiped: calyx relatively narrow, cylindric or in fruit cla- 
or obovate and usually rather distinctly contracted about the stipe of 
the capsule. 
1. Petals 4 (—oc)-fid. 
8. Oregana, Wars. Finely Tagpescent and very viscid, fetid: stems 
1-several, erect, simple up to the racemiform or rather densely cymose- 
paniculate inflorescence: the lower leaves oblanceolate, narrowed below 
to long petioles ; the upper leaves lanceolate or Jance-linear, sessile: 
petals white with spatulate claws, glabrous, distinctly auricled at the 
summit; the blade 2-3 lines long, variously cleft into 4-6 or more 
linear segments : the stipe of the ovoid capsule about 2 lines long. — 
Proc. Am. Acad. x. 343; Brew. & Wats. 1. c. i. 65. — Mountains of 
Oregon, Washington, and Montana, April to August. 
S. montana, Wars. Finely pubescent: stems erect from a more 
or less decumbent base, 4-14 inches high: leaves lance-linear or nar- 
Towly oblanceolate, acuminate, 1-2} inches in length; the cauline 3-4 
pairs: inflorescence varying from subspicate to paniculate ; flowers 
rarely solitary: calyx 6-9 lines in length: petals greenish white to 
Tose-colored, exserted 2-4 lines: ovary long-stiped: capsule acutish. 
— Proc. Am. Acad. x. 343.— Near Carson City, Nev., Anderson ; 
Sierra Co., Cal., Lemmon. S. Shockleyi, Wats. 1. c. xxv. 127, from the 
White Mts., Mono Co., Cal., is apparently only a high-mountain form 
of the same species. 
Var. rigidula. Stems simple, a span high, slightly rigid : leaves 
short, less than an inch in length, thickish and stiff: flowers white, sub- 
Spicate. — Franktown, Nev., M. E. Jones, 1882. 
S. occidentalis, Wars. Viscid-glandular, 2 feet high: stems one 
or two from a single strong root, branched above : leaves lanceolate or 
oblanceolate, 2-3 inches long: flowers in a very loose open panicle : 
calyx elongated, eylindric becoming clavate in fruit: petals purple, 
