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leafy-bracted, or the iipper bractless, none of them longer than the 

 capsules : sepals oblong or oblong-ovate, obtuse, scarious-margined : 

 capsule acute, much longer than the calyx : seeds round-obovate, tubercu- 

 late or muriculate, the marginal elevation distinct ; hyaline wing narrow 

 or wanting. Var. sordidtl. Stems ascending ; herbage very viscid and 

 hairy ; fl. in unilateral leafless racemes : seeds nearly black, sharply 

 muriculate, wingless. Var. Sanfordi. Stems erect repeatedly dichoto- 

 mous : herbage scarcely viscid and only slightly pubescent : inflorescence 

 partly dichotomous, only the ultimate branchlets unilaterally racemose : 

 seeds dark brown, nearly smooth, wingless. — Nothing quite like the type 

 of this, as defined by Kindberg, is known to me as Californian ; but a 

 plant very near it is common on the seaboard. The first variety is very 

 abundant in low rich soil above the salt marshes on the " Island," near 

 Alameda. The second belongs to the plains about Stockton, Lathrop 

 and elsewhere in the interior. Mar. — May. 



10. T. tenuis, Greene, in Britt. 1. c; Pittonia, i. 63 (1887), under 

 Lepigoiium. Slender, prostrate, very diifuse, the whole plant 1 ft. broad, 

 glabrous, or the inflorescence sparsely glandular-pubescent : leaves 

 linear-filiform, 1 in. long, equalling the internodes ; stipules broader than 

 long, acute, but small and inconspicuous : fl. very numerous, crowded 

 and often subsessile on the countless dichotomous-cymose branchlets, 

 apetalous : stamens 2 : capsule triquetrous, acute, more than twice the 

 length of the oblong obtuse scarious-margined sepals : seeds reddish- 

 brown, obliquely obovate, compressed, smooth, margined, wingless. — On 

 hard clayey soil not far from Mastic Station, Alameda ; collected by the 

 author in May, 1887 ; and the plant has not reappeared. 



11. POLYCARPON, La'Jiiiig. Low annuals, diffusely dichotomous, 

 with flat leaves, small scarious stipules and minute cymose flowers. 

 Sepals 5, carinate-concave. Petals 5, minute, hyaline. Stamens 3 — 5. 

 Ovary 1 -celled ; style short, 3-cleft. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. 



1. P. depressum, Nutt. in T. & G. Fl. i. 174 (1838). Very slender, 

 prostrate, the many branches 1—2 in. long : leaves opposite, spatulate, 

 glabrous ; stipules small, narrow : fl. miniate ; the pedicels with small 

 bracts : petals almost filiform, shorter than the sepals, entire : capsule 

 globose, 6— 12-seeded.— Said to have been found as far north as Santa 

 Cruz Co.; otherwise known only from about San Diego and on the 

 peninsula of Lower California. 



12. L(EFLINGIA, Lininvus. Low much branched rather rigid and 

 pungent-leaved annuals ; the leaves with adnate and connate setaceous 

 stipules. Flowers small, sessile in the axils of the leaves and branches. 

 Sepals 5, rigid, carinate. Petals minute or 0. Stamens 3—6. Ovary 

 1-celled ; style very short or 0. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. — Genus 



