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CAR TOPI I YLLACEAE. 



nent; petals small, pink, without appendages, not exceeding the subulate 

 spreading calyx-teeth. 



Said to be an introduced plant. Mi. Tamalpais; Southern California. 



2. S. antirrhina i>. Sleepy Catch key. Erect, slender, sparingly 

 branched, J to 1*4 ft. high, mainly glabrous; leaves oblong-lanceolate or 

 linear, 1 in. long; inflorescence paniculate; pedicels 1 in. long, more or less, 

 filiform; flowers small; petals pink or red, cmarginate, 1 line long; appen- 

 dages minute; capsule ovoid, 3 lines long. 



Throughout California, but nowhere common. 



3. S. gallica L. Windmill Pink. Erect, simple or sparingly branched, 

 10 to 15 in. high, hirsute or hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves spatu- 

 late-obovate, 1 to 1% in. long; flowers in a mostly 1-sided raceme on very 

 slmrt (1 to 2 lines long) pedicels; petals white or flesh-color, the blades obo- 

 vate and entire and appendages small; ovary almost completely 3-celled. 



Naturalized from Europe; everywhere in fields and along roadsides, the only 

 common pink. Apr.-May. The petals are commonly twisted one-fourth round 

 or nearly so, thus resembling the fans of a turbine windmill. 



4. S. californica Durand. Indian Pink. Stems half-erect, very leafy, 1 

 to 2 ft. long, from a stout taproot descending vertically to a depth of 1 or 2 

 ft.; herbage puberulent and more or less glandular; leaves elliptic-ovate or 

 ovate to oblanceolate, more or less abruptly acuminate, 1 to 3 in. long; pedi- 

 cels Mi to 11/2 i n - long; calyx 7 to 10 lines long; corolla scarlet, more than 1 

 in. broad ; petals deeply 4-clef t, the segments toothed or the lateral , entire ; 

 appendages conspicuous, with 3 or 4 minute teeth; capsule ovoid, concealed 

 until dehiscence by the broad calyx; seeds regularly papillate, the papillae 

 with a depression in the center. 



Open woods of canons, Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. June. 



5. S. verecunda Wats. Finely pubescent below, glandular-viscid above; 

 sterna several, erect or decumbent, 1 to l 1 /? ft. long, leafy especially near the 

 base; leaves mostly linear-lanceolate (or those below broadly oblong), all 

 acute; flowers terminal or borne in 3-flowered lateral cymes, the pedicels short 

 and stout; calyx cylindric, % in. long, or becoming clavate or obovate as the 

 fruit develops; petals 9 lines long, rose-color, the blade (3 lines long) cleft 

 to the middle into entire or slightly toothed oblong lobes; appendages oblong 

 or lanceolate, obtuse and often notched at the apex. 



Not common: Mt. Diablo; San Francisco Peninsula; Pt. Reyes, and south- 

 ward to Southern California. May-July. 



3. AGROSTEMMA L. 



Tall hairy annual, with linear ex-stipulate leaves and few long-peduncled 

 purplish-red flowers. Calyx-tube ovoid, with 10 strong ribs, the 5 teeth con- 

 spicuously prolonged into foliaceous lobes exceeding the five large entire unap- 

 pemlaged petals. Stamens 10. Capsule coriaceous, dehiscent by 5 teeth. 

 (Latin ager, a field, and stemma, a wreath, the showy flowers in ancient times 

 made into garlands.) 



1. A. githago L. Corn Cockle. Erect, rather strictly branching, iy 2 ft. 

 high, hirsute with long ascending or somewhal appressed whitish hairs, espe- 

 cially on the peduncles and calyx; Leaves 1 to 4 in. long, 1% to 2y 2 lines wide, 

 tapering to the acute apex; flowers solitary, long-peduncled; calyx-teeth % 

 to % in. long, rather longer than the tube, or in age much longer and even- 



