94 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
dm. high; rays 4, 3 to 9 cm. long, many times dichoto- 
mous, the alternate branches sometimes abortive; leaves 
sessile or very short petioled below the cordate or rotund 
base, linear lanceolate, or sometimes lanceolate, the lower 
obtuse, mucronate, the upper acute, glaucous, spreading, 8 
to 20 mm. wide, 4 to 12 cm. long; umbel leaves nearly 
similar; floral leaves lance-ovate, subcordate, sometimes 
subpandurate, more or less parallel veined, acute or acumi- 
nate, 1 to 3 cm. wide, 2 to 6 cm. long; involucres 3 to 
4 mm. long, pubescent under the glands; lobes ovate, fim- 
briate, erect and valvate between the glands; glands semi- 
lunar, the horns spatulate and usually recurved; sinus 
deep ; sixth lobe small, or none; bracts small, the larger ones 
fimbriate, a few hairs at the apex; stamens 25 to 40, their 
pedicels pubescent with a few scattering hairs; styles 2 to 3 
times as long as the ovary, 2 mm. long, short bifid above, the 
stigmatose ends flattened; capsule spherical, fleshy, wrin- 
kled when dry, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; sulci shallow, 
cocci obtuse; seeds ovoid, truncate, a broad shallow groove 
in front, wrinkled, dirty brown colored, with darker spots, 
4 to 4.5 mm. long, 3 to 3.5 mm. wide, 3.5 mm. thick; 
hilum large, white; caruncle round, hat shaped, substipi- 
tate. — Introduced from Europe into various parts of the 
United States and many other parts of the world. It has 
been found in California, Texas and New Mexico (fide 
Coulter, Bot. West. Tex. 393.), and in many places along 
the mountains in the eastern United States where it may 
possibly be indigenous. — Plate 11. 
Specimens examined from Pennsylvania (Parker, Harrisburg, 1865); 
Virginia (Britton and others, St. Clair’s Creek, 1892, Luray, 1890; 
Small, St. Clair’s Creek, 384, 1892; Curtiss, Bedford Co., 1871); Califor- 
nia (Peckham, San Buena Ventura, 1866; Leeds, Santa Clara, 1889; Mrs. 
Brandegee, San Francisco). 
Reported also from Monterey, Calif. (Engelm. Bot. Mex. Bound. 193) ; 
Texas and New Mexico (Coulter, Bot. West. Tex. 393); upper districts, 
North Carolina (Curtis, Cat. N.C. Plants 48. 1867); Meriden, Connec- 
ticut (Leonard, Cat. Pl. Meriden 29. 1885); West Virginia (Millspaugh 
& Nuttall, Fl. W. Va. 215. 1896); and from several places in New York 
and New Jersey by several authors. 
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