210 EPILOBIACE^. 



17. E. spicatum, Lam. Fl. Fr. iii. 482 (1778); Trel. 1. c. 80. t. 1. 



Stout and simple, 2—6 ft. high, glabrate below, the infloresceuce canes- 

 ceutly puberulent : leaves alternate, lanceolate, acnte, entire, short- 

 stalked, 3 — 6 in. long, deep green above, pale beneath : inflorescence 

 racemose, the buds detlexed : calyx cleft nearly to the base : petals bright 

 purple, ungu.iculate, H in. long or more : style surpassing the stamens, 

 hairy at base : capsule short- or long-stalked, 1 in. long or more. — In the 

 Sierra Nevada, apparently throughout the State, but far less common than 

 in more northerly regions. July — Sept. 



2. ZAUSCH^ERIA, Presl. Perennial herbs (not at all suffrutescent), 

 spreading by subterranean shoots. Leaves opposite, except the upper 

 and 'floral. Flowers racemose along the leafy branches, large, scarlet. 

 Calyx-tube globose-inflated just above the ovary, thence becoming 

 narrow-funnelform, 4-lobed, within bearing 8 small scales, 4 erect and 

 4 deflexed. Petals 4, little exceeding the calyx-lobes, obcordate or deeply 

 cleft. Stamens 8, the 4 alternate ones shorter ; anthers linear-oblong, 

 attached by the middle. Stigma peltate or capitate, 4-lobed. Capsule 

 slender-fusiform, obtusely 4-angled, 4-valved, go -seeded. Seeds comose. 



1. Z. Californica, Presl. Rel. Hfenk. ii. 28. t. 52 (1835). Erect or 

 decumbent, 1 — 3 ft. high, canescent with a minute but dense tomentose 

 pubescence : leaves linear-lanceolate, % — 1}^ in. long, entire or denticu-, 

 late, thickish, seldom at all feather-veined : fl. 1,^4 in. long ; calyx-tube 

 narrow-funnelform, twice the 1-ength of the linear-lanceolate segments, 

 these surpassed by the deeply cleft petals : capsule nearly glabrous, 

 distinctly pedicelled : seeds oblong-obovate. — In the Coast and Mt. 

 Diablo Ranges, from Lake Co. southward, on dry open ground. 



2. Z. latifolia, Greene, Pittonia, i. 25 (1887) : Z. Californica, var. 

 lalifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4493 (1850). Decumbent, seldom 1 ft. high, 

 occasionally canescent with a villous and more or less glandular pubes- 

 cence, more commonly nearly glabrous : leaves from broadly ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, ^a — 1 in. long, very acute, more or less serrate-toothed, 

 thin, conspicuously feather-veined : fl. 1 in. long ; calyx-tube narrowly 

 cylindrical for about 2 lines above the globose base, thence widening 

 abruptly to a funnelform throat, the whole not longer than the. petals : 

 capsule subsessile, glabrous. — In moist ground in the Sierra Nevada, at 

 considerable altitudes ; also at the eastern base of the Mt. Diablo Range ; 

 scarcely more than a subspecies of the first, but of different and far more 

 extensive geograpical range. June — Nov. 



3. Z. tomeiitella, Greene, 1. c. 26. Size of the last ; canescent with 

 a short coarse somewhat tomentose pubescence extending even to the 

 calyx and capsules : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire or toothed, 

 thickish, feather-veined : petals half as long as the narrow calyx-tube 



