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above to a short beak, much contorted ; seed dark, ovate-oblong, |" 

 long, smooth. — San Diego. 



Var. (?) Veitchiana, Hook. A more slender, often very reduced 

 form ; radical leaves narrowly oblanceolate and long petioled, 2-4' long, 

 the cauline often attenuate to the base ; capsule more elongated and 

 narrower, less than 1" broad and 1 - lh' long, attenuate into a narrow 

 beak at the apex, less contorted. — Southern California; Los Angeles, 

 San Gabriel, San Diego, etc. 



42. CE. micrantha, Hornem. Rather stout, erect or ascending 

 from a decumbent base, simple or branched, becoming 1|° high, more 

 or less hirsute ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to ovate, \ - 2' long, the 

 radical petioled, the cauline narrowed at base or cordate and clasping ; 

 flowers small, the calyx-tube 1" long or less, the petals 1 - 2" long, 

 obovate, entire or emarginate, or sometimes 3-toothed ; capsules 8-15" 

 long, acutely tetragonal, about 1" wide at base, attenuate upward to the 

 shortly beaked apex, usually much contorted ; seeds as in the last. — 

 Middle California, from the Sacramento to Fort Tejon. 



* * * Flowers small, yellow, usually turning red ; calyx-tube very 

 short ; capsule elongated, very narrowly linear, slightly curved. 



•43. GE. chamenerioides, Gray. Slender, erect, branching, 

 4-12' high, somewhat viscidly puberulent ; leaves distant, lanceolate, 

 1-2' long, the uppermost sessile, the lower petioled, obscurely repand- 

 denticulate ; spike loose, the bracts small ; calyx-tube 1" long or less, 

 the petals scarcely as long; capsules 1J-2' long, y thick; seeds 

 linear, y long, white and shining. — New Mexico and Arizona. 



44. CE. dentata, Torr. & Gray. (Cav. ?) Slender, usually dif- 

 fusely branched, 1° high or less, more or less hirsute with short spread- 

 ing hairs, especially towards the base, the pubescence above often short- 

 er and somewhat glandular, or wanting; leaves linear, \ - 1J' long, 

 usually narrowed at base, denticulate ; petals 2-4" long, rounded, entire, 

 rarely reddening ; calyx-tube broadly obconic, \ — 1\" long ; capsule 

 1 — 1 y long, sessile, attenuate above into a slender beak ; seeds J" long, 

 smooth. — From Sacramento Valley to Southern California. 



This is perhaps the CE. dentata of Cavanilles, though no similar Chil- 

 ian specimens are in our herbariums. Plants so named, collected in 

 Chili by Gay and Harvey, seem to be identical with the next species. 

 Cavanilles's figure represents a simple-stemmed form with flowers and 

 foliage nearly as in the Californian plant. The figure of Ruiz and 



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