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acute, narrowed below to winged ciliated petioles: inflorescence 
branched ; flowers borne singly, or in the stronger individuals some- 
what fascicled at the ends of the branches: calyx clavate in fruit, with 
broad green nerves; teeth acutish with membranous ciliated margins: 
mature capsule short, oblong, not exceeding 2 lines in diameter: the 
petals greenish white or roseate; claws villous toward the base, with 
broad entire or toothed auricles above; the blade bifid; the short ob- 
long lobes with or without small lateral teeth; appendages lance- 
oblong. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 366. — S. California, Cuyamaca Mts., 
Palmer, Cleveland; San Bernardino Mts., Lemmon, Parish Bros., 
Wright. San Jacinto Mts., Parish Bros. (Lower Calif.) A very 
dwarf specimen apparently of this species from San Bernardino Mts., 
11,000 ft. (W. G. Wright), has purplish petals and a calyx with blunter — 
teeth and less prominent veins. 
S. Sargentii, Wars. Cespitose, minutely pubescent: stems nu- 
merous, slender, erect, 6 inches high: leaves linear or nearly so, 1 to 
nearly 2 inches long, a line or so in breadth; the radical crowded, 
covering the rootstock with their slightly enlarged and imbricated bases; 
the cauline 2-3 pairs: calyx cylindrical, 7 lines long; teeth short: the 
petals white or pink ; the claws exserted, with broad laciniately cleft 
auricles ; the blade short, obovate, bifid; the segments each bearing a 
small lateral tooth : capsule well stiped, cylindrical, and very slender, 
at maturity scarcely more than a line in diameter: seeds tuberculate- 
crested, smooth on the faces. — Proc. Am. Acad. xiv. 290. — Table 
Mountain, Monitor Range, N. Nevada, C. S. Sargent. 
c. Calyx broader, oblong, campanulate or rarely obovate, rather loosely surround- 
ing the ovary, sometimes narrowed downward but not distinctly contracted 
about the carpophore. 
1. Petals divided into 4 nearly equal segments: appendages fringe-toothed. 
S. Bernardina, Wars. Covered with a fine grayish pubescence 
below, finely glandular above: caudex branching: stems several, slen- 
der, erect, 8-12 inches high, furrowed, 1—5-flowered : leaves grass-like, 
narrowly linear, 1-nerved, acute: terminal flower developing first, the 
lower ones borne upon branches 14—2 inches long: buds acute: calyx 
green-nerved ; the teeth lanceolate acutish, with membranous ciliated 
margin: petals white with rather short blade; the claw with 
laciniate auricles; appendages 4, long; the inner ones broad and 
toothed : capsule moderately stiped. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 82. — 
On shady slopes, Tong Meadow, Tulare Co., Calif., Palmer. 
