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POLYGONACEAE 



6. E. Piperi. 



Involucres sessile; leaves basal, petioled; bracts sessile, elliptic; 



scapose annuals. XIX. PUBERULA. 



Involucres peduncled; leaves and bracts similar, verticillate, 



linear; caulescent annuals. XX. SPERGULINA. 



Perianth herbaceous, closely investing the achehe; involucre divided 

 to near the base; leaves spatulate; caulescent annuals. 



XXI. SALSUGINOSA. 

 I. ALATA. 



Involucres hairy, 3-3.5 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. wide; stem and leaves manifestly hirsute 

 and tomentose. 1. E. alatum. 



Involucres glabrous, 2-2.5 mm. long and of the same width; stem and leaves nearly 

 glabrous. 2. E. triste. 



II. ERIANTHA. 



Perianth whitish; style hairy at least to the middle. 3. E. Jamesii. 

 Perianth yellow; style hairy only at the base. 



Involucres 68 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong or oblanceolate. 4. E. Bakeri. 



Involucres 910 mm. long; leaf-blades suborbicular to oval. 5. E. arcuatum. 



III. FLAVA. 



Perianth (externally) pubescent throughout. 

 Involucre elongated-obconic, 6-8 mm. long. 

 Involucre turbinate, 4-5 mm. long. 



Stipe-like base of the perianth very short; old leaf-bases permanently tomentose. 

 Leaf-bases thickened; perianth copiously pubescent; leaf-blades silky above; 



involucres usually several. 7. E. flavum. 



Leaf-bases not thickened; leaf- blades slightly floccose above; involucres few. 

 Perianth 6-7 mm. long. 8. E. chloranthum. 



Perianth about 4 mm. long. 9. E. polyphyllum. 



Stipe-like base of the perianth slender; old leaf-bases glabrous. 



10. E. xanthum. 

 Perianth pubescent at the base only. 11. E. androsaceum. 



IV. CAESPITOSA. 



Involucres with comparatively short, ovate, merely spreading lobes, long-peduncled ; 



leaves linear or nearly so, revolute; stems short, leafy. 12. E. thymoides. 



Involucres with long reflexed lobes. 



Densely cespitose, subacaulescent ; involucre solitary. 



Perianth in flowers 3-4 mm. long. 13. E. caespitosum. 



Perianth in flowers 2 mm. long. 14. E. andinum. 



Caulescent, suffruticose ; involucres 15. 



Perianth greenish yellow, 68 mm. long; leaves spatulate or oblanceolate. 



15. E. sphaerocephalum. 

 Perianth ochroleucous, 5 mm. long; leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate. 



16. E. fasciculifolium. 



One species. 



V. PYROLAEFOLIA. 



17. E. pyrolaefolium. 



18. E. compositum. 



19. E. Porteri. 



VI. UMBELLATA. 

 Leaf-blades ovate or cordate. 



Leaf-blades from obovate or orbicular to oblanceolate. 

 Involucres solitary. 

 Involucres several, umbellate. 

 Perianth deeply yellow. 



Leaves not densely tomentose beneath. 



Umbels simple; leaves spatulate. 20. E. neglectum. 



Umbels more or less compound; leaves oblanceolate. 



21. E. biumbellatum. 

 Leaves densely tomentose beneath. 



Inflorescence more or less compound. 22. E. stellatum. 



Inflorescence simple. 



Leaf-blades obovate-spatulate or oval; perianth 6-7 mm. long. 



23. E. umbellatum. 

 Leaf-blades rhombic-ovate or rhombic-oval; perianth 7-8 mm. long. 



24. E. Rydbergii. 

 Perianth ochroleucous, in age turning purplish rose-colored. 



Scape naked up to the umbel; leaves spatulate. 



Perianth about 6 mm. long; leaf-blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic, glabrous 



above at maturity. 25. E. subalpinum. 



Perianth about 8 mm. long; leaf-blades oval or ovate, permanently tomea- 



tose above. 26. E. aridum. 



Scape with at least one whorl of leaves below the umbel; leaf-blades oblanceo- 

 late. 27. E. heracleoides. 



VII. LACHNOGYNA. 



Leaves and scape silky; the latter elongate, 1 dm. high or more; perennials with a taproot 



and cespitose crown. 



Inflorescence irregularly branched. 28. E. lachnogynurn. 



Inflorescence subcapitate. 29. E. Tetraneuris. 



Leaves lanate, subsessile, obtuse; scape short, less than 3 cm. long, or none; pulvinate- 

 cespitose perennials; involucres capitate. 



