_- ss) * 
122 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
Valley, 578, in part, 1881); Colorado (Baker, Earle & Tracy, Mancos, 23, 
1898). 
On the southern coast of California and the adjacent 
islands occurs a large form with large deeply cordate floral 
leaves. Specimens examined that may be referred here 
are: Vasey, Angel Island, 1875; Brewer, Atascadero, 516, 
1861; Trask, Santa Catalina Island, 1896-7. Several of 
the inland specimens approach these in size and leaf form. 
Var. FRANCISCANA n. var. 
Seemingly perennial, several to many stout stems from 
a perpendicular rootstock (?), 3 to 6 mm. in diameter, and 
tapering into the root; inflorescence smaller; leaves 
oblanceolate, acute, or the upper obtuse, thicker, whitish 
beneath; glands darker, larger; capsule depressed ovate, 3 
mm. long, 4 mm. wide; styles 1 mm. or more long. — 
In the San Francisco Bay region, whence the name. — 
Plate 37. 
Specimens examined (Bolander, San Francisco, 20, 1865, cult. fields; 
Brewer, Oakland, 2762, 1864; Kellogg, Lone Mt. Cemetery, 1877; Jones, 
San Francisco, 3249, 1882; Kellogg & Harford, Alameda, 898, 1869; East- 
wood, San Francisco, 1895). 
EK. sEGETALIs Linn. Sp. Plant. 458. 1753. Stem leaves linear, the upper 
dilated at the base; glands semilunar with long spreading horns; cap- 
sules with small warts on the back; seeds deeply and finely reticulate 
with broad white ridges. — Occurs frequently as a ballast plant on the 
Atlantic coast, but not known to be established. 
+ + Perennial; root large; new growth formed from buds at the base 
of the old stems, which might in some cases be called perpendicular 
rootstocks; stems more or less woody and scaly at the base; leaves 
thick; capsules slightly narrowed below the apex, which contains 
the conical caruncles of the seeds; seeds vermiculate and shallow 
pitted to almost smooth. A group of closely related plants of the 
mountains and arid regions of the southwest; not easily separable 
and often passing into one another on the borders of their ranges. 
++ Usually red when young; lobes usually oblong, truncate or incised; 
bracts mostly broad and prominent; glands large, fan shaped or 
truncate, crenate margined, scarcely horned; seeds usually with 
oblong or irregularly shaped pits. 
= Stout plants; stem leaves broadest above the middle; leaves micro- 
scopically granulate. 
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