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stem simple below, or branched from the base : cauline leaves alternate, 



oblong- to obovate-spatnlate, obtuse or retuse, obtusely serrulate, % — 13^2 



in. long ; Horal opposite, round-ovate, siibcordate, mucronate, 2 — 6 lines 



long : involucres and glands small : style deeply bif^d : capsule rough 



with small warty protuberances : seeds subglobose, dark-colored, 



delicately net-veined, the caruncle thin and flat. — Of wide dissemination 



in the State, but less common than the last. Mar. — June. 



* * Sterns diffusely branched, nearly or quite prostrate ; leaves all opposite, 



unequal at base, stipulate ; involucres solitary, the glands with peta- 



loid appendages (except in No. 5) : seeds ash-colored. — Genus 



AnisophyiiLum, Haworth. 



5. E. ocellata, Dur. & Hilg. Pac. R. Rep. v. 15. t. 18 (1855). Annual, 

 prostrate, glabrous, the branches 4 — 10 in. long : leaves thick, deltoid to 

 ovate-oblong, often cordate at base, acute, entire, 2 — 5 lines long ; 

 stipules setaceous, entire or cleft : involucres campanulate, less than a 

 line long ; lobes fringed ; glands 2 — 4, yellowish or purplish, short- 

 stipitate, circular and discoid, with or without a narrow margin : capsules 

 a line broad : seeds round-ovate, obtusely angled, smooth or obscurely 

 rugose. —Plains of the San Joaquin and southward. 



6. E. albomar^iiiata, T. & G. Pac. R. Rep. ii. 174 (1855) : E. Hart- 

 wegiana, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv^. 31 (1862). Perennial, prostrate, 

 slender, glabrous and pallid, the branches 3 — 6 in. long : leaves nearly 

 orbicular, entire, obtuse above, somewhat cordate at base, 2 — 4 lines 

 broad ; stipules joined into a triangular entire or lacerate white scale : 

 involucres campanulate or turbinate, less than a line long ; the 4 brownish 

 glands with a conspicuous white or rose-colored petaloid appendage : 

 capsule nearly a line long : seeds oblong, 4-angled. — Southern like the 

 last, but in the Kern Co. mountains. 



7. E. serpyllifolia, Pers. Syn. ii. 14 (1807), var. consanguinea, Boiss. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv'^ 43 (1862); Millsp. in Pitt. ii. 84: E. sanguinea, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. ii. 56. Diffuse annual, with ascending or horizon- 

 tal but seldom prostrate slender branches : herbage glabrous, deep green, 

 reddening in age : leaves obovate- to spatulate-oblong, 1 — 3 lines long, 

 obscurely pinnate-veined, sharply serrate above the middle ; stipules 

 setaceous, lacerate or subentire : glands of involucre minute, transversely 

 oblong, reddish and with narrow 2 — 3-lobed or entire white or rose- 

 colored appendages : seed quadrangular, the length scarcely twice the 

 breadth, the sides more or less rugose-pitted, the angles somewhat 

 prominent, hardly " sharp." — Common on plains and in the lower foot- 

 hills of the Sierra. Perhaps wholly distinct from the Mexican type on 

 which E. serpyllifolia was founded. 



8. E. occidentalis, Drew, Bull. Torr. Club, 152 (1889) ; Millsp. 1. c. 85). 



