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the calyx; the claw broadly auricled; the blade bifid, very short in- 
deed, scarcely surpassing the four small appendages: capsule ovate- 
oblong, moderately stiped.— Proc. Am. Acad. x. 344.— On the 
Clear Water, Central Idaho, Spalding ; on the Lumnaha, Union Co. 
Oregon, Cusick. September. i 
6. LYCHNIS, Tourn. Cockxir. (Name ancient, from \vxv05, 
a lamp, in reference to the bright color of certain European species.) — 
Herbs, chiefly of Europe and Asia, much resembling various species 
of Silene, and sometimes distinguished only by the number of the 
carpels.— The latter being in a few cases variable, the separation of 
the two genera is rather arbitrary. The indigenous species are West- 
ern or Arctic (L. alpina extends eastward and southward to Lower 
Canada), but several introduced European species have become more 
or less common in the Atlantic and Middle States, and in Canada. — 
Inst. i. 333, t. 175; DC. Prodr. i. 385; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i 194; 
Endl. Gen. 972-974; A. Braun, Flora, 1843, 369; Reichb. Icon. Fil. 
Germ. vi. t. 303-308; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 147 ; Wats. Proc. Am. 
Acad, xii, 246; Baill. Hist. des Pl. ix. 108 ; Pax in Engl. & Prantl 
Nat. Pflanzenfam. iii. 1 b. 72. P 
§ 1. Teeth of the usually more or less inflated calyx not twisted: 
ovary unicellular at the base: capsule with its five valves normally 
bifid, but sometimes indistinctly so or entire. (MELANDRIUM, Rohl, 
Deutschl. Fl. 254, and Eviycunis, Fenzl in Endl. 1. c. 974 428 
separation of these sections in the American species is not practicable, 
as the inflation of the calyx and toothing of the capsule are not sufli- 
ciently definite or constant characters.) 
* Native species, Western or Arctic: leaves narrowly lanceolate, spatulate oF 
inear; the radical usually numerous and the cauline few. 
y flowered | 
he Rocky 
+ Tall: stems erect, usually a foot or more in height, several to man, 
species ranging from Winnipeg to the Sierras, but chiefly of t 
Mountains, though not truly alpine. 
= Capsule sessile : petals included or scarcely exserted. 
L. Drummondii, Wats. Finely grayish-pubescent throughout 
often purple-glandular above: stems erect, simple, somewhat righ’ 
leaves narrow ; the lower oblanceolate ; the upper lance-linear : flowers 
on long usually appressed pedicels: calyx in the typical form oblong” 
cylindric or scarcely ovate, with green nerves: petals small, white 
or purplish, with the short bifid minutely appendaged blade narrowe? 
than the claw: seeds uniformly tubercled, not distinctly crested. — 
Bot. King Exp. 87, 432, & Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 248. Z. ape 
Gray, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiii. 405 in part. L. apetala, Va” a 
