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oblou^-lanceolate, rouuded at base, serrulate : racemes dense, notably 

 leafy -bracted, the large red-purple or pale flowers appearing somewhat 

 corymbose : petals }>^ in. long or more, deeply emarginate : capsule 2 in. 

 long or more : seed obovoid-oblong, acutely pointed at base, the hyaline 

 papillpe forming close longitudinal lines. — Plentiful in springy places, 

 along streamlets and shores of ponds about San Francisco, at Point 

 Lobos, Mountain Lake, etc., thence northward to Oregon and Alaska. 

 Flowers large and mostly bright-colored ; the herbage not well described 

 as "hoary," in the "Botany of California;" for the delicate pubescence 

 seldom if ever imparts a shade of color to the plant. June — Dec. 



4. E. Watsouli, Barbey, 1. c. 219 ; Trel. 1. c. 16. Size of the preced- 

 ing, but not stout, the terete stems with less marked lines, somewhat 

 hoary with a soft pubescence : leaves oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 

 denticulate, rounded to short-winged petioles : fl. not crowded, suberect 

 in the axils of the more reduced and acute upper leaves, rose-red ; petals 

 elongated-obcordate : seeds more coarsely granulate-striiite. — On Russian 

 River, Sonoma Co., and perhaps common along the seaboard northward ; 

 also in Solano Co., on Alamo Creek, Jepson. 



5. E. holosericeum, Trel. N. Am. Epil. 91. t. 17 (1891). Loosely 

 branched, at least the upper leaves and branches canescent with sub- 

 appressed hairs ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtiise or sometimes acute, 

 remotely serrulate, attenuate, or abruptly contracted and then cuneately 

 narrowed, to short petioles : fl. small, scattered on the elongated branches, 

 pale : mature capsules on peduncles equalling the floral leaves : seeds 

 short-beaked, very minutely papillose-striate. — Of the southern part of 

 the State, coming within our limits in Kern Co., according to the author 

 of the species. 



6. E. adeuocanloii, Hausskn. Bot. Zeitsch. 119 (1879), var. occideutale, 

 Trel. 1. c. 95: E. coloraturn, Bot. Calif, partly, not Muhl. Tall, with panic- 

 ulate ascending branches and long internodes ; branches, inflorescence 

 and capsules glandular-pubescent: leaves ovate- or triangular-lanceolate, 

 ascending, abruptly rounded to short-winged petioles, prominently 

 denticulate, the floral small, acute at both ends : fl. small : capsule 

 slender, short-pedicellate : seed elongated, obovoid, very minutely 

 striate. — Common in both the Coast Range and the Sierra, by streams 

 and about springy places. 



7. E. Californicum, Haiisskn. Monogr. 260 (1884) ; Trel. 1. c. 96. t. 26. 

 Tall, slender, more sparingly branched, glabrous below ; pubescence of 

 the buds, pods, etc. of coarse ascending, not glandular hairs : leaves 

 lanceolate, acutish, rather remotely serrulate, short-petiolate : fl. scat- 

 tered : fruiting peduncles slender, almost equalling the floral leaves : 

 capsules nearly glabrous : seeds almost beakless. — Apparently along the 

 seaboard only, and less common than the last. 



