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Lab. 25. ZL. montana, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 247 (so far as the 
Utah specimens are concerned). _Agrostemma apetala, Don, 1. ¢. i. 
416. Melandryum apetalum, Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 326; Warm- 
ing, Bot. Foren. Festskr. 1890, 251, f. 25, 26. Wahlbergella apetala, 
Fries, 1. ¢. 155. — A polymorphous species, the forms of which have 
been elaborated by Regel in Radde’s Reisen in Ost-Sib. i. 325-329. 
N. Greenland and Grinnell Land to Alaska and southward along the 
Rocky Mountains to Montana, Canby, and Uintas, N. Utah, Watson. 
Var. glabra, Recent. Glabrous throughout, otherwise as in the 
type. — Regel, |. c. 825 & 327.— Rocky Mts. of Brit. Amer., Bour- 
geau; St. Paul’s Isl., Alaska, Elliott ; Schmagin Isl., Harrington. The 
Alaskan form differs from Bourgeau’s plant, upon which the variety was 
founded, in having much larger thinner leaves. 
Var. elatior, Rea (extended). Pubescent, taller, 6-12 inches 
in height : stems commonly several-flowered : petals sometimes consid- 
erably exserted. — Regel, 1. c. 828, including var. macropetala, so far 
as the American specimens are concerned. — Kodiak Isl. and north- 
ward in Alaska to Kotzebue Sound, ace. to Regel. . 
* * European species, adventive in the Eastern and Middle States and im 
anada: corolla much exserted. 
+ Leaves usually large, cauline, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate : flowers mostly 
dicecious: valves of the capsule distinctly 2-toothed. 
L. prurna, Sibth. (Rep Lycunis. Rep Campron.) Calyx 
oblong, rather short, 4-6 lines long, reddish; the teeth triangular- 
lanceolate, acute: corolla red or pink (rarely white), expanding 
the morning: capsule large, globose, with a wide mouth; the tee 
recurved. — Fl. Oxon. 145; Reichb. 1. c. vi. t. 304. L. diotea, var. % 
Linn. Spec. 437 in part, and var. a, rubra, Weigel, F1. Pom.-Rug. 89. 
Melandrium silvestre, Rh]. Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2, ii. 274. I. rubrum, 
Garcke, Fl. Deutschl. ed. 4,55.— Not infrequent in Atlantic States- 
L. asa, Mill. (Eveninc Lycunis. Wurre Campion.) Caly* 
green, longer than in the preceding ; the teeth lance-linear, attenuate ‘ 
corolla more commonly white, opening in the evening: capsule ovate- 
conical; the teeth erect or slightly spreading. — Dict. ed. 8 (1768)- 
L. dioica, var. 8, Linn. Spec. 437. L. vespertina, Sibth. Fl. Oxon 
146 (1794). Melandryum album, Garcke, 1. c. 55.— Ballast and waste 
lands, sometimes by roadsides and in cultivated fields, chiefly eastward. 
+ + Leaves narrower: flowers perfect: valves of the capsule 5, eee 
L. Fxros-cucutri, L. (Raceep Rosin.) A slender smoothish 
perennial, with a furrowed, sometimes minutely roughened stem, ie: ee 
feet high: lower leaves oblanceolate; the upper lance-linear : caly* - 
