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_ * Stigma 4-cleft: seeds beakless. — Perennials with rather slender 
caudex or root-stock and usually terete stems (somewhat quadrangular 
in suffruticosum, and with decurrent lines in luteum).—From the stig- 
matic characters, Z. exaltatum and #. Oreganum might be looked for 
here. 
+ Capsules linear-fusiform, as much as 75 mm. long, many-seeded: 
seeds beakless. — Rather tall plants with ample conspicuously veined 
chiefly opposite leaves, and large flowers with short and open calyx- 
tube. 
E. uirsutum, L.— Spreading by long subterranean 
shoots at length bulbiferous or rosuliferous at end, mostly 
a couple of feet high, with ascending branches, hirsute with 
soft white hairs; leaves as much as 75 mm. long, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, prominently serrulate, sessile and fre- 
quently clasping-decurrent, thin but not very veiny; 
flowers rather abundant in the upper axils, erect; petals 
rose-purple, 10 to 15 mm. long, hairy at base within; style 
included ; capsules short stalked; seeds oblong, densely 
papillate, .5 x 1.1 mm., with pale coma. — Sp, i. (1753), 
347; Watson, Index, 365.— Waste grounds at various 
points on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coast, and in 
the interior of New York and Ontario. — A European plant 
doubtfully established in this country. — Plate 3. 
E. PARVIFLORUM, Schreber, an old world species of the pubescence 
and habit of the preceding, but rosuliferous at base and with very much 
smaller flowers, has been collected on ballast at Hoboken, N.J., by Hon. 
Addison Brown, but does not belong to our flora. It has also been re- 
ported as EF. pubescens, Roth. 
3. E. tureum, Pursh.— A foot or two high, nearly 
simple, glabrate below except along the elevated lines 
decurrent from some of the nodes; leaves 25 to 75 mm. 
long, ovate or elliptical to broadly lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, sinuate-toothed, sessile or when large obliquely 
tapering to winged petioles, slightly fleshy, rather pale; 
inflorescence more or less incurved- or glandular-pubes- 
cent, the flowers at first nodding, not very numerous, in 
the axils of the somewhat crowded and frequently reduced 
upper leaves; petals bright yellow, 15 to 18 mm. long; 
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