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1. POL YG ALA, Tournefort 



1. P. cucullata, Benth. Flowers rose-color: broad beak obtuse. Cal. 



2. P. Califomica, Nutt. Flowers greenish, purplish: sepals toraentose. CaL-Oi. 



2. KRAMEBLA., Linnaeus. 

 1. K. parvifolia, Benth. Low rigid shrub: upper petals united. San Diego. 



FRANKENIACEJE. 



1. FRANKENXA., Linnaeus. 

 L F. grandifolia, C & S. Gray-green: calyx-tube furrowed: petals pink. 



CARYOPHYLLACEJE. 



• Sepals united : petals long-clawed. 



Petals with erect bifid appendages at the base of the blade. 



Styles 2 (1 sp. in No. 3). Styles 3 1 



Styles 5, rarely 3 or 4: alpine 3 



Petals not appendaged. Styles 2 3 



Styles 3: petals bifid, white Sp. No. 6 of 1 



• • Sepals distinct or nearly so: petals vAthout claws or appendages. 



Stipules none: petals white (or pink in No. 9): rarely wanting. 



Petals bifid: pod cylindrical 4 



Petals bifid or wanting pod globular to oblong 6 



Petals entire or wanting: styles opposite sepals 6 



Styles not opposite sepals 7 



Stipules scarious: pedicel long, reflexed in fruit: leaves not rigid, fascicled^ rather 



fleshy, filiform to linear: petals entire 8 



Styles 3, rarely 5 (petals wanting in 3d species) 9 



Stipules scarious: pedicels bracteate or none: stamens 3 to 5: style 3-cleft, or sessile 

 stigmas 3: petals minute or wanting. 



Leaves not rigid: capsule globose 10 



Leave* and sepals rigid: capsule 3-sided ...•• 11 



1. SELENE, Linnsus. 



• Blade of the petals entire or only emarginate,. 



Hairy: pinkish flowers in a l-sided leafy spike ••,•*•♦,-..•. .. 4 



Glabrous : glutinous rings on the stem : pedicels long ► 5 



Viacid-pubeacent; leafy: pedicels short: petals with 4 appendages 21 



• • Blade of the petals bifd or S-lobed. 



