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glandular-ciliate; petals obovate, scarcely emarginate, 3-5 mm. long, 

 about twice the length of the calyx, not toothed, and without lateral 

 appendages, the median appendage ligulato and loosely hairy ; stamens 

 and pistil about equal to the sepals ; filaments round-toothed and slightly 

 hairy at base ; capsule ovoid-acute, about equal to the calyx, the false 

 septa incomplete, extending half-way to the axis below the middle, nar- 

 rowed above; seeds .8X i-S mm., mottled. — California and Oregon. 



Forma exappendiculatum is a form collect'jd in California by Bridges 

 and distributed by the Smithsonian Institution under the number 42, with 

 narrowly spatulate somewhat erose petals, seemingly destitute of basal 

 teeth and appendages, in this respect similar to those of Z,. digynum, from 

 which, however, the plant differs greatly in habit and in being 3-gynous. 

 It is to be observed that the median appendage is present in some flowers 

 of the type, which itself is described as wanting it. 



19. L. SPERGULiNUM, Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 333. — A span to a 

 foot high, glaucous, with more or less abundant minute spreading hairs; 

 stem simple below, loosely dichotomous above, with slender subterete 

 branches; leaves remote, linear, entire, obtuse, little narrowed at base, 

 •^.5-1 X 10-20 mm.) with or without stipular glands; pedicels slender, 

 somewhat nodding, as much as 15 mm. long, several times the length of 

 the pretty rose-colored flowers; sepals ovate, subacute or obtuse, glandu- 

 lar-ciliate; petals obovate, 4-8 mm. long, 2-3 times as long as the calyx, 

 a-toothed and 3-appendiculate, the median appendage ligulateand beard- 

 ed; stamens and pistil about equal to the petals; filaments round-toothed 

 at base; capsule ovoid-acute, nearly twice as long as the calyx, the false 

 septa incomplete. — California {^Kellogg, 91 ; Harford^ 89 ; Bolander, 6568 ; 

 Miss Monks'). Distinguished from the last by its larger nodding rose- 

 colored flowers, and different petals. 



20. L. Californicum, Benth. PI. Hartweg. 299.— A span to a foot and 

 a half high, glabrate or sparingly puberulent, glaucous; stem loosely 

 nriany times forked above, the branches angled ; leaves remote, linear, 

 scarcely acute, entire (i X 10-30 mm.), with prominent stipular glands; 

 pedicels short, erect, not exceeding the rose-colored flowers which are 

 clustered at the ends of the branches; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 keeled below, pale-margined, sparingly glandular-ciliate; petals obovate, 

 scarcely emarginate, 4-6 mm. long, twice the length of the calyx, dilated 

 and 3-appendiculate, the median appendage rounded and hairy; stamens 

 and pistil about as long as the petals, filaments not toothed, the tube 

 glandular-thickened between their bases; capsule ovoid-acute, a little 

 shorter than the calyx, the false partitions broad, gradually narrowed up- 

 wards. — Western California. 



Var. CONFERTUM, Gray in herb., is a low form more densely leafy and 

 with a contracted inflorescence, the median appendage of the petals ob- 

 ovate. — Mare Island, San Francisco Bay {Lemmon, Greene). 



