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and rather fleshy, dark green and histrous : petals % i^- long • anthers 

 linear-obloug, fixed almost in the middle : capsule 10 lines long, stout, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, acutely angled ; seeds black, obovate, acute at base, 

 compressed, smooth but dull.^First noticed on San Miguel Island, but 

 found along the shores of Monterey Bay, Aliliott. 



^-+ ++ Floivers liirniiig red or taivny. 



16. (E. spiralis, Hook. Fl. i. 219 (1833): (E. cheiranlhifolia, Bot. 

 Calif. Radiating branches stout, procumbent, 1 — 3 ft. long : leaves from 

 spatulate to ovate-cordate, 1 — 3 in. long, entire or dentate, more or less 

 hirsute : petals 4 — 6 lines long : anthers linear-oblong, fixed in the 

 middle : capsule acutely quadrangular, hirsute : seeds ovate, acute at 

 base, compressed, dark brown. —Plentiful on the sand hills of San Fran- 

 cisco and southward, flowering almost throughout the year. Our plant 

 must be very distinct from the Chilian (E cheiranlhifolia, which has a 

 different mode of growth, pellucid-punctate and glaucescent herbage, 

 short roundish anthers, etc. 



17. (E. micraiitha, Hornem. "Hort. Hafn. Suppl." (1819); Walp. Rep. 

 ii. 77 (1813), under Sphxrosl.igma. Size and habit of the last, but more 

 slender and hirsute, the small calyx densely hairy : leaves from narrowly 

 oblanceolate to linear-oblong, 2 — 4 in. long, acutish, more or less undu- 

 late : petals only 1 — 2 lines long, entire or emarginate : capsule 4-angled, 

 contorted, rather slender, gradually attenuate upwards, usually more 

 than 1 in. long, sparsely but stiffly hirsutulous. — At San Francisco, near 

 the Presidio, etc., and southward along the coast. 



-i— -t— Plants not maritime, erect at base and with ascending branches; 



capsules narrow, less contorted (except in n. 18 J; flowers 



yellow, turning red. 



•M- Radical leaves narroiv and peliolate, the cauline broad, sesgile; 



capsules sharply angled, much contorted. 



18. (E. hirtella. Stoutish, erect, simple, or with a few ascending 

 branches from the base, 6—10 in. high, the herbage purplish, short- 

 hirsute : radical leaves oblanceolate, denticulate, 1% in. long ; cauline 

 ovate, sessile, f 3' in. long, coarsely toothed and more or less undulate or 

 crisped : petals 1 line long or more : capsules hirsute, narrow, attenuate 

 upwards, once or twice coiled : seeds pale, smooth, more or less regularly 

 rhombic-ovate. — Common in the hill country away from the sea, from 

 Lake Co. and Solano southward. Heretofore made a part of OS. mic 

 rantha, a maritime species, with the trailing habit of the preceding group, 

 which may be identical with the South Californian and maritime (E. 

 bistorta. The present plant is strictly erect, flowering in early summer 

 and soon disappearing. 



■M- -M- Annuals, without radical leaves; branches many, sle)ider, leafy; 

 capsules narrowly linear, slightly or not at all contorted. 



