206 EPILOBIACE^. 



form, or 4-parted to the base with the lobes spreading, deciduous. " Petals 

 4, spreading' or erect, often emarginate or bifid, purple or white. Stamens 

 8, the 4 alternate ones shorter ; anthers elliptical or roundish, fixed near 

 the middle. Stigma oblong, clavate, or with 4 spreading or revolute 

 lobes. Capsule mostly linear, 4-sided, 4-celled, 4-valved. Seeds numer- 

 ous, ascending; the summit bearing a tuft of long white hairs. 



* Perennials (often sloloniferous) or annuals; fl. small, regular; petals 

 ascending ; stamens and style erect. — Epilobium proper. 



+- Annuals, iriih terete stems; leaves alternate (except the Imvest). 



1. E. miniitum, Lindl.; Hook. Fl. i. 207 (1833). Diffusely branched 

 from the base, the mostly decumbent or ascending branches }4 — 1 ft. long, 

 puberulent : leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, entire or repand- 

 denticulate, % — i^ in. long : fl. solitary in all the axils, very small : 

 petals obcordate, white or with a tinge of rose : 4 long stamens equalling 

 the style : stigma clavate, the lobes at length expanded and fimbriate : 

 capsule pedicellate, about 1 in. long, more or less crenate : seeds rather 

 few, smooth ; the coma very deciduous. — In the Coast Range almost 

 throughout the State, on dry hills in the wooded sections. Apr. — June. 



2. E. paniculatnm, Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. I 490 (1840). Erect at base, 

 slenderly paniculate-branched above, 1 — 10 ft. high, from wholly glabrous 

 to minutely and densely glandular-pubescent : leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late or linear, obscurely serrulate, 1 — 2 in. long, with smaller ones 

 fascicled in the axils, the floral reduced to subulate bracts : corolla 

 cruciform ; the rose-colored petals quadrate-oblong, abruptly and often 

 deeply notch&:l, rose-purple and veiny, 1 — 2 lines long, rotate-spreading : 

 capsule pedicellate, 1 in. long, attenuate at each end, often arcuate : 

 seeds minutely papillose. Var. jvcnndnm, Trel. : E. jucundum, Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 57 (1876). About 2 ft. high, stouter, panicle con- 

 densed and thyrsoid : petals }4 — }4 iJi- long, broadly obcordate, only 

 ascending (not rotate-spreading). — The type extremely common seaward 

 throughout California and far northward as well as eastward ; in the 

 Bay region commonly 5 — 6 ft. high, not rarely 10 ft. The variety — or 

 subspecies — confined to the interior valley, from near Sacramento, Drew, 

 northward to Oregon. July — Nov. 



-H- H— Perennials, often sloloniferous; leaves mostly opposite (except 

 the upper and floral ). 



3. E. Frauciscanum, Barbey ; Bot. Calif, i. 220 (1876) ; Trel. N. Am. 

 Epil. 90. t. 15. Yery stout, simple, or rather closely paniculate-branched, 

 2—4 ft. high, pubescent with soft short glandular hairs : stem reddish, 

 subterete, but with delicate sharp angles running down from the leaf- 

 bases : only the alternate upper and floral leaves strictly sessile, the 

 lowest with a very short but distinct stout petiole, these 2 — 4 in. long, 



