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CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 
Silene Californica, Durand, PI. Pratt, in Jour. Acad. Philad., (n. ser .) 2, p. 83. S. pulchra, 
Torr. & Gray , FI. 1, p. 675; excl. syn. Cham. & Schlecht.; S. Virginica, Benth. PI. Hartw. No. 
1653. Sides of hills, Mammoth Grove, and Duffield’s Ranch, Sierra Nevada, May ; Mormon 
island, Mr. Rich, var ? viscido-puhescens; foliis ovatis sessilibus, cymis suhtrifloris; petalis pro- 
funde hipartitis, lohis hifidis, segmentis bidentatis v. integris. Valley of the Sacramento, Mr. 
Shelton. This variety has leaves sometimes as broad as those of S. latifolia. At the base of the 
limb of the petals there is remote linear lobe or tooth. In the specimens from Mormon island 
the middle lobes of the petals are somewhat toothed on the margin, especially near the summit. 
Lychnis pulchra, Cham. & Schlecht., which was founded on a Mexican plant, seems clearly to 
he Silene laciiata, Cav. We are not sure that it grows in California, unless, which is possible, 
S. Californica passes into it. 
• Silene quinquevulnera, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1 ,p. 191. Hills near Sonoma; May 3. 
Doubtless introduced from Europe. 
Silene Drummondh, Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. 1, p. 89; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 91 and 675. Near 
San Francisco ; April 8. On the Sandia mountains, New Mexico ; October. In fruit. 
Silene Antirriiina, Linn. ; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 191. Hill sides, Napa valley; April 16. 
Sagina decumbens, Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 177. Spergula saginoides, Linn.; Michx. FI. 1, 
p. 276. Damp places near San Francisco. Sepals and petals 4-5, equal in length. Stamens 10. 
Alsine Douglasii, Fenzl.; Torr. Gray, FI. 1, p. 674. Napa valley; April 26. Seeds orbi- 
cular-reniform, compressed, not margined. 
Alsine Michalxii, Fenzl. Arenaria stricta, Michx. FI. 1. p. 274. Walnut creek; August: 
on rocks. In fruit. 
Arenaria macrophylla, Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 1 ,p. 102, t, 37; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 
182. Moehringia umbrosa, Fenzl J ; Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 13. We are uncertain of the station of 
this plant, as the ticket belonging to it was lost; hut it is probably the valley of the Sacramento. 
Dr. Bigelow’s specimens are rather smaller than Nuttall’s from Oregon, and the leaves are 
narrower. They accord pretty well with Moehringia umbrosa from Songaria, in our herbarium, 
except that the leaves are narrower. Our California plant is not sufficiently mature to show the 
character of the seeds. 
Arenaria diffusa, Ell. Sk. 1, p. 519; Gray, PI. Wright. 2, p. 18. San Antonita, New Mexico; 
October. 
Arenaria Fendleri, Gray, PI. Fendl.p. 13. Laguna Blanca, in pine woods; September. The 
specimens hear mature fruit. The capsule is slightly longer than the calyx, and six-valved. 
Seeds obliquely ohovate, with a minute uncinate micropyle, papillose-scabrous. Embryo une¬ 
qually hyppocrepiforme. 
Stellaria Jamesii, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. Nero York, 2. p. 169. In the Sandia mountains ; 
October. This striking species has not been collected, since its discovery by Dr. James, until 
now. The weak stems (a foot in length) and the older leaves are glabrous ; the branches, etc., 
viscid-pubescent. The larger leaves are 3 or 4 inches long, and two-thirds of an inch in width. 
Stellaria nitens. Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 1. p. 184. Near San Gabriel, March 23. In our 
specimens the leaves are fringed with weak hairs, the lowest ones are oblong-ovate, on long 
petioles, the middle ones lanceolate-spatulate, and the uppermost linear. Sepals subulate- 
lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved. Petals oblong, deeply two-parted with linear segments. A 
similar form occurs in Oregon. We have also an apetalous triandrous state of the plant from 
hills near Murphy’s ; May 14. 
Stellaria littoralis, (sp. nov.) : undique pubescens ; caule adscendente? superne cymoso- 
ramoso; foliis ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis arete sessilibus; pedicellis foliis vix longioribus; 
petalis profunde bipartitis, laciniis linearibus, sepala lanceolata excedentibus. Seashore, Punta 
