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/?. leaves rather smaller and more sfronirly toothed ; capsules completely 

 coiled when niatiirc. — (K. bisturta, IS'iilt.! riitis. 



St. Diego, Calilbrnia, Nuttall! (Souilicrn California, Bolta?) — In loliajic 

 this species resembles CE. micraiitlia; l)iit tiie leaves are aeuie and mostly 

 smaller, the capsules shorter, and the llowers about as larjre as in G<^. 

 cheirantliifolia, from Avhich it dilH-rs in its smaller and toothed leaves, nuich 

 contorted capsules, &c. The flowers, according to Nuttall, are golden yellow, 

 usually with a bright brown spot at the base of each petal. Ilolostigtna 

 Bottas of Spaeh, according to the description, accords for the most part with 

 this plant, but not completely. We have not adopted the si)ecific name 

 because there is another (JL. (Godetia) Botta*. We have taken the name 

 given by Nuttall to a mere variety of his Q^]. hcterophylla, since the latter 

 name has alreaily been employed, and there is also a Ilolostigma hetero- 

 phyllum of Spach. 



._f— 62. CE. cheiranthifoUa (Homem.) : stems branching from the base, as- 

 •'cending, pubcndent ; leaves somewhat canescently ])nbescent, nearly entire, 

 obtuse, petioled ; the lower ones oblong-spatidate, with slender petioles ; the 

 upper ovate-oblong; flowers (rather small) axillary ; calyx hairy ; the tube 

 infundibuliform, as long as the ovate-lanceolate segments ; petals broadly 

 obovate, longer than the stamens and style ; anthers cordate-oval ; capsules 

 short, acutely quadrangular, attenuate at the point, hairy, recurved or con- 

 torted. — Hornem. liort. Hnfn. ; L'auU.! hot. reg. 1. 1040 ; DC. prodr. 3. p. 46. 

 CE. spiralis, Hook. ! Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. j)- 214, Sfhol. Beechey, sujyjil. p. 341. 

 Holostigma cheiranthifolium, Spach! Onasr. p. 15. Sphsrostigma cheiran- 

 thifolium, FiscJi. S^' Meyer, ind. son. St. Petersb. (excl. [i.) 



California, Douglas! &c. N. W. Coast, Menzies, according to Hooker, 

 but perhaps from California. — The original ffi. clieiranthifolia is said to 

 come from Cliili; but this is possibly a mistake. The plant is not uncom- 

 mon in cultivation. 



53. CE. micrantha (Hornem.) : hirsute; stems ascending, flexuous; leaves 

 linear-oblong, acutely denticulate, rather obtuse ; the radical ones spatulale, 

 petioled ; flowers (\ery small) axillary ; calyx hirsute ; the tube obconic, 

 about half llie length of the linear-oblong segments ; petals obovate, twice 

 the length of tlie longer stamens ; anthers roundish ; capsules elongated, 

 slender, acutely quadrangular, acute, hirsute with spreading hairs, much 

 contorted. — Hornem. hort. Haj'ii. ; Hook. Sf Am. I hot. Beechey, stippl. p. 

 341. G2. hirta, Link, enum. 1. p. 378. Gi. asperifolia, Nutt. ! mss. 

 Holostigma micranthum, Spach, I. c. 



California, Douglas! S^'c. Nuttall! — Leaves (1-2 or 3 inches long) and 

 upper part of the stem strigose-hirsute and somewhat canescent. Flowers 

 (about 2 lines in diameter) beginning to appear at the very base of the stem, 

 as in most of the allied species. Capsules almost an inch long, variously 

 curved, and often spirally coiled. 



* * Perennial : flowers (^small) in a close secund circinate spike, white, odorous: 

 tube of the calyx linear-infundibuUform, as long as the ovary : stamens 

 slightly unequal, as long as the petals: anthers oblong, fixed near the 

 middle : capsules short, cylindrical, pointed, slightly curved. (Gyranthus, 

 Nutt.) 



54. CE. Boothii (Dougl.) : viscidly pubescent above; stem decumbent, 

 branched ; leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, denticidate-serrate, nearly 

 glabrous above, somewhat hirsute beneath, petioled ; flowers ninnerous, in 

 a crowded unilateral spike ; calyx viscidly hairy ; the tube slender, as long 



