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and strictly spicate along tlie few rigid subsimple branches; calyx rather 
large, (2" long,) pinkish or white, acute at base, very glabrous, with similar 
obovate segments ; ovary glabrous or rough above ; cotyledons orbicular, very 
eccentric, rather shorter than the incurved radicle. — Northern New Mexico 
and Utah. Foot-hills of the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude; July. (1,028.) 
Eriogonum Wkightii, Torn T. 4* G., I. p, 17G. Perennial, caules- 
cent (1-2° high) from a woody base, branched ; branches leafy below ; leaves 
\-M long, oblong-ovate or sublanccolate, narrowed at base, white-woolly both 
sides or only beneath, smaller and often fascicled in W\(\ axils; panicle dicho- 
tomously branched ; involucres 1-1 long, with small bracts, rather loosely 
spicate along the somewhat rigid branches, 5-()-toothed, many-flowered ; 
calyx white or pinkish, very glabrous, actdc at hasc, segments broad-obovate 
or the outer ones suborbicular ; ovary scabrous al)ove, especially on the an- 
gles. — A p()lyin()rj)h()us species, extending from Southw(\-^i('iii Texas lo Ari- 
zona, Western Nevada and Cahfornia. The Nevada specimens (collected l)y 
Anderson and others) belong to a depauperate form with very slioit leafy 
branches and more scapelike peduncles. 
Eriogonum vimineum, Dougl. T. ^ G., I c, p. 177. Annual, low, 
(4-12',) sparingly tomentose above or glabrous; leaves radical, rounded, white- 
woolly beneath, webby above ; involucres narrowly tubular, not over 2" long, 
very shortly 5-toothed, few-flowered, glabrous, appressed, scattered along the 
very slender glabrous branches of the loose and spreading dec()mi)(>mid i)ani- 
cle ; bractlets small, appressed, scarcely barbellate ; calyx very glabrous, 
white or pinkish, shorter than the involucres even in fruit, outer segments 
])roadly obovate, the inner narrower. — Washington Territory to California 
and Nevada. Virginia Mountains, Nevada; 6,000 feet altitude; August. 
Leaves 6-8" in diameter, on l-V petioles. (1,029.) 
Eriogonum gracile, Benth. 7\ 4* G., I c, p. 178. Annual, usually 
very much branched ; leaves radical or sometimes more or less cauline, ovate 
or oblong, white-woolly beneath and floccose above, as also usually the 
braiiehes and involucres; involucres few- or somewhat many-flowered, 
5-toothed, about 1" long, scattered on the slender branches of the spreading 
panicle, appressed; l)ractlets short, finely subglandular-])arbella1e : calyx 
glabrous, white oi- r()se-(H)lore(l, slmrfer than the involucre atler flowering, 
outer segments obovate. the inner narrower. Var. effusum, T. & Gr. Pam- 
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