PINK FAMILY. 



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2. S. antirrhina L. Sleepy Catchfly. Erect, slender, spar- 

 ingly branched, 1 to 1\ ft. high; leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear, 

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

 filiform; flowers small; petals pink or red, the blade emarginate, 1 

 line long; appendages minute; capsule ovoid, 3 lines long. 



Distributed throughout California but nowhere common: Mt. 

 Shasta, Jepson; region of San Francisco Bay. 



3. S. Gallica L. Erect, simple or sparingly branched, 10 to lo 

 in. high, hirsute or hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves spatulate- 

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

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

 obovate and entire and appendages small; ovary almost completely 

 3-celled. 



Introduced from Europe, the most common species, found every- 

 where in fields and along roadsides. Apr.-May. The petals are 

 commonly twisted one-fourth round or nearly so, thus resembling the 

 fans of a turbine windmill. 



S. dichotoma Ehrh. Vespertine Old World annual with inflores- 

 cence dichotomous and racemose; flowers white, £ in. broad. — Occa- 

 sional in fields about Berkeley, ace. to Greene. S. Cucubalus Ur- 

 bel, the Bladder Campion, another Old World weed, is naturalized at 

 Vallejo, acc. to Greene. It is perennial with white flowers and an 

 inflated calyx. 



4. S. Californica Durand. Indian Pink. Root thick and stout, 

 descending vertically to a depth of 1 or 2 ft.; herbage puberulent and 

 more or less glandular; stems several, procumbent or half erect, very 

 leafy; leaves elliptic-ovate or ovate to oblanceolate, more or less 

 abruptly acuminate, 1 to 3 in. long; pedicels £ to \\ in. long; calyx 

 7 to 10 lines long; corolla scarlet, more than 1 in. broad; petals deeply 

 cleft, the segments bifid with the lobes 2 to 3-toothed or the lateral 

 smaller and entire; appendages conspicuous, with 3 or 4 minute 

 notches; capsule ovoid, concealed until dehiscence by the broad calyx; 

 seeds regularly papillate, the papillae with a depression in the center. 



Open woods of canons and hillsides both in the Sierras and Coast 

 Ranges. June. 



5. S. verecunda Wats. Finely pubescent below, glandular- 

 viscid above; stems several, erect or decumbent, 1 to 1£ ft. iong, 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; 

 calyx-teeth with membranous margins; petals 9 lines long, rose- 

 -color, the limb 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, 

 acc. to Davy; southward to Southern California. May-July. 



3. AGROSTEMMA L. 



Tall annual, sparingly branched above, with linear ex-stipulate 



