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* EUTÓCA diväricata. 
Straggling Eutoca. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. HypRoPHYLLEE, R. Br. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 244.) 
EUTOCA.—Supra, fol. 1180. 
E. divaricata ; caulibus dichotomo-divaricatis, foliis omnibus ovatis indivisis, 
placentis 12-20-ovulatis. Bentham in Trans. Linn. soc. vol. 17. p. 278. 
Annua. Caulis decumbens, fragilis, pilosus. Folia indivisa, pilosa, 
petiolata, oblonga, obtusa. Pedunculi axillares, foliis longiores. Corolla 
calyce parum longior, subcampanulata limbo plano ; plicis decem tubi squa- 
mularum loco. Stamina exserta. Ovarium ovatum, hispidum ; stylo filiformi 
hispido, apice furcato. Capsula calyce acuto inclusa, ovata, acuta, com- 
pressa, pilis rigidis hispida ; unilocularis, bivalvis ; valvulis intus nitidis 
medio placentam corrugatam polyspermam gerentibus. Semina plurima 
abortiva ; matura ovalia, compressa, subtriangularia, scrobiculata ; embryone 
tereti in axi albuminis cornet. ; 
A Californian annual of no great beauty, flowering in 
May and June. Its seeds should be sown in August in a 
situation neither overshaded, nor too much exposed to the 
sun; the young plants should not be allowed to stand nearer 
than four or five inches, and they should be kept carefully 
cleared of weeds; if this is not attended to, the branches 
will become so weak and brittle that they will not bear the 
water. "Taking these precautions the flowers will be obtained 
in the spring, before the summer heats set 1n, and the seeds 
will ripen just when the season has become too dry to sustain 
the vegetation of the species. 
The light violet blossoms are pretty in bouquets, but are 
hardly of more than Botanical interest. 
* See folio 1180. 
