silexe. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 77 



into four linear or filiform segments ; appendages linear, entire : stamens 

 and style long exserted, capsule subsessile : seeds small, dark red. Siski- 

 you Mountains, near Ashland, Oregon, to Scott's Mountain, California. 



•*-•*--«- Flowers scattered or variously paniculate : style in- 

 cluded or somewhat exserted: capsule distinctly strpitate: calyx cylin- 

 drical or in fruit clavate or obovate, usually distinctly contracted 

 about the stipe of the capsule. 



S. Oregrana Watson Proc. Am. Acad, x, 343. Yiscidly pubescent: 

 stems strict, erect, simple, few to several from a deep perpendicular root 1- 

 2 inches long : flowers in an open dichotomous panicle, somewhat nod- 

 ding, upon slender pedicels 3-6 lines long: petals white, 10 lines long, the 

 narrow limb parted to the base and the lobes deeply bifid with filiform 

 segments, the narrow naked claw with the auricles produced upward into 

 lanceolate teeth : scales linear entire : ovary oblong, long stipitate. Oregon 

 andWashington in mountainous districts. 



S. montana Watson 1. c. 343. Finely pubescent: stems erect from a 

 more or less decumbent base 4-14 inches high : linear-lanceolate or nar- 

 rowly oblanceolate, acuminate 1-2% inches long mostly radical; the cau- 

 line 3-4 pairs, inflorescence varying from subspicate to paniculate; flowers 

 rarely solitary : calyx 6-9 lines long : petals greenish white to rose-color 

 2-4 lines longer than the calyx, stamens and style about equalling the pet- 

 als : ovary long-stipitate : capsule acutish. Near Carson City, Nevada, to 

 Mariposa, Cal. Specimens collected in the Siskiyou Mountains near the 

 Oregon line are doubtfully referred to this species! . 



S. Gormani. Finely puberulent with minute crisp hairs, glandular 

 above; stems slender, simple, 1-2 feet high: leaves lanceolate to linear, the 

 lower ones narrowed below to a long slender petiole, acute or acuminate: 

 flowers rather few, erect, in a strict elongated panicle, or sometimes con- 

 tracted to a several-flowered cyme, pedicels very unequal 3-12 lines long, 

 slender; calyx oblong-cylindrical, 6-8 lines long, truncate at base, some- 

 what costate with 10 green ribs, the intervening spa ces _searious; the subu- 

 late teeth very acute; petals well exserted; the blade fcpartcd with deeply 

 2-lobed segments: stamens and styles well exserteck capsule oval, abruptly 

 contracted below to a short stipe. In forests, Hunt's Ranch, Jackson Co. 

 Oregon, 4400 feet elevation: Aug. 13th, 1896: M. W. Gorman. 



■*-■«—-*--■«■ Calyx oblong, campanulate, or rarely obovate, rather 

 loosely surrounding the ovary sometimes narrowed downward, but 

 not distinctly contracted about the stipe. 



S. Suksdorfii Robinson Bot. Gaz. xvi 44 t. 6. Low, densely matted: 

 stems 2-5 inches high, simple, 1-3 flowered, minutely pubescent below, 

 glandular above : stem leaves about 2 pairs, linear 3-7 lines long, a line 

 wide: radical leaves numerous, crowded, similar or somewhat spatulate: 

 calyx broadly cylindrical or campanulate seldom exceeding 5 lines in 

 length ; nerves conspicuous, simple below, anastomosing above, petals 

 white, little exceeding the calyx ; shallowly bifid, lobes entire: append- 

 ages oblong, refuse: stipe of capsule lf« lines long. On the snowy peaks, 

 Washingon to California. 



S. Lyallii Watson 1. c. xxviii, 144. Glabrous excepting the inflores- 

 cence which is subglandular-puberulent : stems slender ascending : leaves 

 linear-oblanceolate, 1-2 inches long, the lower attenuate to a slender pet- 

 iole : flowers in dichotomous few-flowered cymes, the slender pedicels 3-4 

 lines long, not deflexed ; calyx 4 lines long, campanulate, net-veined above, 

 the teeth obtuse, broadly triangular; petals 7 lines long, brownish purple, 

 with an oblong shortly bifid limb, oblong entire appendages, and naked 

 scarcely auricled claw ; anthers purple, included ; styles very short ; ovary 

 small, narrowly oblong. Cascade Mountains lat. 49 Lyall to California. 



