216 EPILOBIACE^'. 



19. (E. stri^ulosa, T. & G. Fl. i. 512 (1840) ; F. & M. Intl. Sem. Petr. 

 ii. 50 (1835), under SpJcvrosligma. Slender, erect-spreading, ig — 1 ft. 

 high, all but the older parts clothed with short appressed or incurved 

 white hairs ; leaves % in. long, linear-lanceolate, acutish, denticulate, 

 subsessile : petals broadly obovate, l^.^ lines long, yellow, turning deep 

 red : anthers roundish, basifixed : capsule about ^ in. long, sessile, 

 straight or arcuate, not contorted, scarcely attenuate at apex. Var. (1) 

 epiloMoides. Strictly erect, with ascending somewhat virgate branches : 

 pubescence neither white nor appressed, but spreading and hirsute : 

 pods longer and more slender. Var. (2) pubeus, Wats. 1. c. 594. With 

 stouter and decumbent branches all from the base : almost canescently 

 hirsute : pods more than 1 in. long, linear-clavate. — The type of this vari- 

 able species appears to be restricted to the seaboard in the Bay district, 

 and is common at San Francisco, Alameda, etc. The first variety is of 

 the interior, from Oregon to San Diego, at which last place it comes out 

 to the seaboard. The second belongs to the desert regions east of the 

 Sierra. This looks like a distinct species ; and possibly even the first 

 should be admitted in that rank. They would be almost or qxiite as 

 good species as the commonly received species of Gayophytum, to which 

 genus the present group is very closely related. 



20. (E. cainpestris. (E. denlata, Bot. Calif, i. 226, not Oav. Branched 

 from the base and bushy, 6 — 10 in. high and as broad, more or less 

 hirsute-pubescent throughout : leaves linear-lanceolate, 1 in. long, den- 

 tate : petals very broadly cuneate-obovate, 4 — 5 lines long, turning brick- 

 red : anthers linear-oblong, ^i line long, fixed toward the middle and 

 versatile : pods more than 1 in. long, narrowly linear, slightly incurved. 

 Var. cruciata (Wats. 1. c. under (E. dentala). Petals half as large, 

 narrowly obovate or oblong, often emarginate. — Common on the plains 

 from Ahtioch southward. The variety, not seen by me, may possibly 

 represent the S. American <E. dentala; but it is certain that the type can 

 not so be referred ; for that, from the description, must have callous- 

 tipped calyx-lobes, and the short, rounded and basifixed anthers of the 

 other members of this group. 



-)—-)—-)— Floivers v)hile or rose-colored, in a nodding spike, (spike erect in 

 n. 34); capsules terete or obtusely angled, much contorted. 



21. (E. alyssoides, H. & A. Bot. Beech. 340 (1840) ; Hook. Ic. t. 339. 

 Simple, or with ascending branches from the base, 3 — 12 in. high, canes- 

 cently puberulent : leaves oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 into a slender petiole, entire or repand-deuticulate, 1 — 2% in. long ; the 

 floral similar though smaller : spike elongated, many-flowered : petals 

 rounded, rose-puri)le. 2^ lines long: capsule 1 in. long, slender, 

 attenuate above, contorted : seeds ash-colored, minutely pitted. — Eastern 

 base of the Sierra. 



