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sparingly leafy decumbent branches, glabrous or with glandu- 
lar inflorescence; leaves 15 to 20 mm. long, all opposite, 
elliptical to ovate, obtuse, remotely repand toothed, abruptly 
rounded to short winged petioles, typically very glaucous 
with inconspicuous lateral veins but drying rather thin ; flow- 
ers few, often slender-peduncled, in the axils of the scarcely 
reduced upper leaves ; calyx-tube cylindrical to funnel-form, 
2 to 4 mm. long; petals about 15 mm. long; capsules 
less clavate, about 30 mm. long, equalling or exceeding the 
very slender peduncles; stigma only half as large as in the 
last, with short papille; seeds .56 x 1.5 to 1.7 mm., finely 
papillate ; coma white or dingy. — Proc. Amer. Acad. vi. 
(1865), 532; Watson, Index, 365; Haussknecht, Mon- 
ograph, 250, pl. 15, f. 69; Barbey & Cuisin, pl. 3. — Cen- 
tral California, and in the East Humboldt Mountains of 
Nevada ( Watson). — Plate 6. 
++ ++ Leaves relatively narrower: flowers smaller, cream-colored: 
style exserted: seeds nearly obconical, closely low-papillate. 
6. E.surrruticosum, Nutt.— More woody and intricately 
much branched at base, a span high, minutely canescent 
throughout or at length glabrate below; leaves numerous, 
under 20 mm. long, mainly opposite, broadly lanceolate, 
acutish, entire, cuneately narrowed but hardly petioled, 
thick, with inconspicuous veins; flowers rather few in the 
axils of the scarcely reduced upper leaves; calyx-tube 
broadly funnel-form, about 3 mm. long; petals 5 to 8 mm. 
long; capsule 25 mm. long, short-stalked ; seeds .8 to 
1x 2.3 to 2.5mm. ; coma long and very dingy, readily fall- 
ing. — Torr. & Gr. Fl. i. (1840), 488; Watson, Index, 367; 
Haussknecht, Monogr. 250, pl. 13, f. 63; Coulter, Rocky 
Mt. Botany, 102; Barbey & Cuisin, pl. 4. — Oregon (Nut- 
tall) to northwestern Montana and the Yellowstone Park. 
— Plate 7. 
* * Stigma more or less 4-cleftin the larger flowers, usually subentire 
in the smaller: capsules prominently ribbed, rather short and few 
seeded: seeds beakless, very broad and blunt, usually abruptly con- 
