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4-cleft into lanceolate segments ; the blade narrowed gradually into the 
cuneate claw, the latter devoid of auricles; appendages linear: capsule 
oblong, upon a stipe 2 lines in length.— Proc. Am. Acad. x. 3435 
Brew. & Wats. l.c. i. 64. — Calif., Bolander, without special locality; 
Plumas Co., Calif., Lemmon, Mrs, Austin; Butte Co., Mrs. Bidwell. 
2. Petals bifid, each lobe sometimes bearing a very small lateral tooth. 
S. purpurata, Greene. “Stems numerous, from slender running 
rootstocks, 6-18 inches high, rather slender: whole plant pubescent 
and slightly viscid: leaves rather remote, linear-lanceolate, acute, 1} 
inches long: flowers in terminal and subterminal peduncled or sub- 
sessile cymes of about 3: calyx purple, rugose-veiny, clavate, not in- 
flated, } inch long or more; limb of petals more than half as long, 
white or pink, obcordate or bifid, appendaged at base.” — This species, 
not seen by the author, appears to be near S. Scouleri, Hook. The 
description is drawn from Pittonia, ii. 229. — Porcupine River, interior 
of N. Alaska, J. H. Turner. 
S. verecunda, Wats. Low, 6-12 inches in height, finely pubes- 
cent below, glandular-viscid above: stems several, leafy especially neat. 
the base: leaves narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, acute: 
flowers rather few, mostly terminal or subterminal ; the branches of 
the inflorescence erect: calyx soon becoming strongly obovate by the 
development of the broad ovoid capsule: calyx teeth with membra- 
nous ciliated margins: petals rose-colored ; the claw glabrous, narrowly 
auricled; the blade 2-cleft into short entire oblong segments ; appen- 
dages oblong, blunt and somewhat toothed at the apex. — Proc. Ap. 
Acad. x. 344; Brew. & Wats. 1.c.i. 65. S. Engelmannt, var. Behr, 
Rohrb. Linnea, xxxvi. 264. — Central California near the coast, Mis- 
sion Dolores, San Francisco. 
S. Luisana, Wars. Taller, finely pubescent: stems several from 
a branching caudex, erect, slender, viscid above: leaves narrowly oblan- 
ceolate to linear, acute, most numerous at the base; the cauline grada- 
ally reduced: flowers borne upon short spreading peduncles: fruiting 
calyx clavate ; teeth long and narrow, with an incurved membranous 
ciliated margin: petals white, with narrowly auricled glabrous claw, 
and 2-cleft blade; segments linear-oblong, entire or with a small lat- 
eral tooth ; appendages lanceolate, often toothed : capsule cylindric. — 
Proc. Am. Acad. xxiii. 261. — California, San Luis Obispo, /- & 
S. A. Lemmon; near Tolon, Brandegee ; mountains south of Ft. 
Tejon, Coville & Funston. 
S. platyota, Wars. Minutely pubescent throughout, glandular 
above: root thick: stems slender, 1} feet high: leaves oblanceolate, 
