1. Ee minutum Lindl. A graceful annual 15-40 cm, tall, crisp-puberulent 
throughout, not glandular, commonly branched, the branches slender, the 
internodes 2-5 cm. long; leaves elliptical-lanceolate, 1-2.5 cm, long, 
2-5 ma, wide, mostly entire, narrowed at the base to an indefinite petiole 
1-3 mn, long; flowers numerous, scarcely 1.5 mm, long, the calyx tube 
Cope unkoa. 
about one quarter the length of the sepals; peds 15-20 mm, long, 1 m, 
in diameter, seeds smooth, «8 mm, long, the coma easily deciduous, 
Frecuent in dry soil in the oven. 
2. Ee paniculatum iutt. A slender erect annual 350-60 cm, tall, the 
branches many, slender, the internodes 2-4 cm. long, mostly glabrous 
and glaucous, some usually abruptly glandular; leaves 1-5 cm, long, 
2—4 mn, wide, linear-lanceolate, the upper much reduced and bractlike, 
all nearly entire or remotely denticulate, both surfaces Elabrous 3; flowers 
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numerous, 2-5 ma. long, the calyx tube sube:ual to the sens O-2e0 
em, long, 1 mm, in diameter, some glandular, some smooth on the same nlant, 
the mature pedicels 5-15 mm, longs; secds 1.5 mm, long, the coma readily 
deciduouSe 
In dry ground along roadways, trails and in burns, throughout our 
region. 
vare jucundum (Gray) frelease. Flowers 5-10 mm, long, the petals twice 
the length of the sepals, the sepals twice™the length of the calyx-tube; 
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somewhat stouter, as much as 3 cm. long, the vedicels somewhat shorter, 
—TLake Coeur d'Alene; xevett Lake, 5500 ft.; Princeton, 
3, Ee Sandbergii Rydb. Slender, erect turionmforming perennials 60-80 cm, 
tall, simple to the inflorescence; stems puberulent throughout with 
spreading hairs, more or less glandular above; leaves 5,.0-7.5 cm. long, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, denticulate, rounded at the base, on obscure 
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