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EUTOCA DIVARICATA. STRAGGLING EurToca. 
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Class and Order. 
Pentanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Hyproruy.tez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Corolla decidua. Ovarium ovoideo-globosum, piloso- 
hispidum. Placente lineares, dorso parietibus ovarii adnate, 
4-multi-ovulatea, Capsula dissepimentis incompletis, semi- 
bilocularis—Herbe annue (?) sepius erecte habitu Pha- 
celiz, rarius diffuse vel divaricate. Flores racemost densi 
sessiles, vel laxi pedunculati, cymis unilateralibus simpli- 
cibus vel dichotomis. Benth. | 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Evutoca divaricata ; caulibus dichotome divaricatis, foliis 
omnibus ovatis indivisis, placentis 12—20-ovulatis. 
Benth. : 
Evrtoca divaricata. Benth. in Linn. Soc. Trans. . 17. p. 
278. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1784. d 
A Californian plant, for which our gardens are indebted 
to the late Mr. Dovetas. It is a hardy annual, which does 
not suffer in Scotland by the droughts of summer, as it is 
said to do in England. Its appearance, rather, is more in- 
jured, being of humble growth, from the soil being dashed 
upon its foliage and flowers by our rains. The drawing 
was made in August, when the plants were in the highest 
perfection in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
Descr. Herbaceous, annual. Stems weak, flexuose, 
frequently decumbent and dichotomously branched, downy. 
Leaves hairy, remote, ovate, the lower ones on rather long 
petioles, the upper ones gradually with shorter stalks, and 
at length sessile ; all of them simple, quite entire. Flowers 
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