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3. ZAUSCHNERIA Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2 : 28. />/. 52. 1835. 



Erect or decumbent perennials, somewhat woody and with shredding- bark at the base. 

 Leaves sessile or nearly so, opposite or alternate, more or less fascicled. Inflorescence 

 spicate, the flowers large, horizontal, fuchsia-like. Hypanthium scarlet, globose at base, 

 then narrowed into a long tube bearing at the narrow part, and within, 8 lobe-like ap- 

 pendages, 4 erect and 4 deflexed. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 8, the alternate ones 

 shorter; anthers versatile. Ovary 4-celled; stigma 4-lobed, peltate to capitate. Capsule 

 imperfectly 4-celled, many-seeded. Seeds oblong, narrowed at base, comose at apex. 

 [Named for Dr. M. Zauschner, a professor of natural history at the University of 

 Prague.] 



A genus of 5 species, occurring in the western United States and in Mexico. Type species, Zauschneria 

 californica Presl. 



Leaves narrow, usually less than 6 mm. wide; plants suffrutescent at base. 



Leaves 2.5-6 mm. wide, linear to lanceolate, little or moderately fasciculate; flowers 30-40 mm. lon^. 



1. Z. californica. 



Leaves nearly or quite filiform, not over 2 mm. wide, densely fasciculate; flowers 25-35 mm. long. 



2. Z. cana. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate to oval, the principal ones over 6 mm. wide; plants strictly herbaceous. 



Broadest leaves 7-15 mm. wide, often denticulate, not white-canescent; stems 1.5-3.5 dm. lone. 



3. Z. latifolia. 

 Broadest leaves 5-8 (rarely 10) mm. wide, subentire, the lower ones usually white-canescent; stems up to 



2 dm. high. 4. Z. septentrionalis. 



1. Zauschneria californica Presl. California Fuchsia. Fig. 3355. 



Zauschneria californica Presl, Rel. Haenk. 2: 28. pi. 52. 1835. 



Zauschneria me.xicana Presl, op. cit. 29. 



Zauschneria Eastwoodiae Moxley, S.W. Sci. Bull. 1: 23. 1920. 



Stems 3-9 dm. tall, suffrutescent at the base, often much-branched, green- to gray-pilose, often 

 very glandular. Leaves green to grayish, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 0.5-4 

 cm. long, 1.5-6 mm. wide, entire or remotely denticulate, the lower ones sometimes opposite or 

 subopposite, the upper usually alternate, lateral veins not usually evident ; inflorescence spicate ; 

 hypanthium scarlet, funnelform, globose at base, then narrowed, then gradually ampliate, 2-3 cm. 

 long; sepals erect, lanceolate, 8-10 mm. long; petals 2-cleft, scarlet, 8-15 mm. long; capsule 

 sessile to short-pediceled, linear, 4-angled, 8-nerved, with short beak, often curved, 1.5-2 cm. 

 long, many-seeded ; seeds broad, 1 . 5 mm. long. 



Dry slopes and fields, Upper Sonoran Zones; Lake County, California, to northern Lower California. Type 

 locality: Monterey, California. Aug.-Oct. 



Zauschneria californica subsp. angustifolia Keck, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 520: 221. 1940 Plants 

 suflFrutescent at the base; leaves linear, densely tomentose-canescent; flowers 3-4 cm. long. Hills near the coast 

 from Monterey County to San Diego County, California. Also found on Santa Catalina Island. Type locality: 

 Dana Point, Orange County. 



Zauschneria californica var. villosa (Greene) Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 667. 1925. (Zauschneria vUlosa 

 Greene, Pittonia 1: 27. 1887.) Very villous with white spreading hairs. Upper Sonoran Zone; Santa Kosa, 

 Santa Cruz, and San Clemente Islands, California. Type locality: Santa Cruz Island. 



2. Zauschneria cana Greene. Hoary California Fuchsia. Fig. 3356. 



Zauschneria californica var. microphylla A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 218. 1876. 



Zauschneria cana Greene, Pittonia 1: 28. 1887. 



Zauschneria microphylla Moxley, S.W. Sci. Bull. 1 : 22. 1920. 



Like the preceding species except for foliage ; stems 3-6 dm. tall, tomentose-canescent, en- 

 tirely gray, usually not very glandular. Leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate to nearly filiform, not 

 over 2 mm. wide, entire or nearly so, much-fascicled ; hypanthium scarlet, 2-3 cm long ; sepals 

 scarlet, 8-10 mm. long; petals 2-cleft, scarlet, 8-12 mm. long; capsule Imear, 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 many-seeded, curved or almost straight, beaked or not. 



Dry slopes of Upper Sonoran Zone; Monterey County to Los Angeles County, California, including' Santa 

 Cruz and Catalina Islands. Type locality: Santa Cruz Island. Aug.-Oct. 



3. Zauschneria latifolia (Hook.) Greene. Broad-leaved California Fuchsia. 



Fig. 3357. 



Zauschneria californica var. latifolia Hook. Bot. Mag. 75: pL 4493. 1850. 



Zauschneria latifolia Greene, Pittonia 1 : 25. 1887. 



Zauschneria totncntella Greene, op. cit. 26. 



Zauschneria glandulosa Moxley, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 15: 22. 1916. 



Zauschneria pulchella Moxley, S.W. Sci. Bull. 1 : 27. 1920. 



Zauschneria canescens Eastw. ex Moxley, op. cit. 29. 



Zauschneria vclutina Eastw. ex Moxley, op. cit. 25. 



Stems herbaceous, slender, 1.5-5 dm. tall, pilose, somewhat glandular above. Leaves mostly 

 opposite, ovate to lance-ovate, tapering to both ends or rounded at base, sessile, 6-lS mm. wide, 

 denticulate, with lateral veins evident ; flowers and fruits as in Z. calitormca. 



Largely on dry slopes and ridges. Transition Zone; in the mountains in southern Oregon southward to lulare 

 County, California, and western Nevada. Type locality: not given. Aug.-bept. 



Zauschneria latifolia var. viscosa (Moxley) Jepson. Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 667. 1925. (Zauschneria viscosa 



