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the lateral leaflets few to many or none, very irregular in shape and size ; 

 raceme at first nodding, the bracts very small or wanting ; calyx-tube 

 funnelform with a narrow base, 1 - 2" long, the bud close and abruptly 

 acute; petals yellow, 1 - 2" long ; capsule glabrous, 4- 12" long, about 

 1" broad, attenuate into a pedicel which is 2 - 8" long and ascending 

 or divaricate ; seed |" long. — From Western Wyoming and South- 

 ern Idaho to Southern Utah. 



Var. purpurascens. Usually stouter, the flowers larger and pink- 

 ish-white or purplish, rarely yellow, the tube 2 - 3" long, the petals 

 3 — 4" long. — On the eastern side of the Sierra from Oregon to Mono 

 Lake. 



Var. aurantiaca. ( (E. clavceformis, Torrey.) Low, 3 - 10' high ; 

 inflorescence puberulent ; calyx-tube more or less orange ; petals light 

 rose-color or orange ; capsule usually puberulent. — Southern California 

 and Arizona. 



48. 03. brevipes, Gray. Like the last but usually stouter, \ — 2° 

 high, more or less villous with stiff hairs, not puberulent ; calyx-tube 

 obconic to funnelform, 1 - 3" long, the segments strongly nerved and the 

 stout tips free ; petals 3 - 6" long, apparently pale yellow or whitish ; 

 capsule 1-3' long, ]i" broad, the pedicel 2-12" long. — Southern 

 California and Arizona. 



49. CE. cardiophtlla, Torr. Often rather slender, 3- 10' high- 

 simple, erect or ascending, canescently hirsute with short spreading 

 hairs ; leaves scattered, simple, cordate or ovate, £ - \\' long, repandly 

 serrate, long-petioled ; calyx-tube rather narrowly funnelform, 3 - 4" 

 long, the bud close, usually tinged with red ; petals 3 - 4" long, yellow 

 turning to rose-color; capsule f - 1^' long, attenuate to a pedicel which 

 is but 1 - 3" long. — Southern California and Arizona. 



50. 03. multijuga, Watson. Glabrous or very sparingly villous, 

 much branched above ; leaves 6' long, pinnate with many subequal 

 leaflets 1' long, the terminal one not larger, and with smaller ones inter- 

 posed between the others, all oblong-lanceolate, acute, very irregularly 

 and somewhat doubly sinuate-serrate, strongly veined ; calyx-tube ob- 

 conic, 1" long, the bud close and obtuse ; petals 4" long, light yellow ; 

 immature capsule 9" long, equalling the pedicel. — Southern Utah ; 

 described from a single fragmentary specimen. 



* * Flowers leafy-bracted, very small ; seeds oblong, deeply concave 

 on the inner side and somewhat wing-margined, cellularly papillose. 



51. G2. pterosperma, Watson. Erect, 2-3' high, simple or 



