220 EPILOBIACEiE. 



aegmeuts : filaments of the alternate stamens very short : stigma whitish, 

 appearing capitate by the close recurving of the broad lobes : capsule 

 tomentose, somewhat quadrangular and tapering, the sides with a midrib 

 but no furrows. — Another obscure species, perhaps not occurring in 

 middle California ; doubtless wrongly referred to the next, for the cap- 

 sules, if true to the descriptions, are essentially different. 



4. G. lepida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1849 (1836) ; H. & A. Bot. Beech. 342 

 (1836), under (Enolhera. Stem erect, branching above, pubescent with 

 short appressed hairs: leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, slightly pubescent: 

 calyx-tube obconical, very short, greatly surpassed by the segments : 

 petals rounded and emarginate at apex, pale purple, with a dark red 

 cuneate spot at summit : stigma purple, cruciform: capsule ovate-oblong, 

 sessile, closely ribbed and sulcate, densely white-villous. —Very common, 

 apparently throughout the State. 



5. Gt. inicropetala, Greene, Pittonia, i. 32 (1887). Erect, slender, 

 simple, 1 — 3 ft. high, puberulent : leaves 1 in. long, narrowly lanceolate, 

 entire, sessile : spike rather short : calyx-tube scarcely 2 lines long ; 

 segments 4 lines, the slender elongated tips twisted in the bud : petals 

 linear-lanceolate, only 3 lines long, entire or erose : stigma purple, the 

 lobes broad and short : capsule sessile, f4 in. long, linear-oblong, abruptly 

 pointed, hirsute, the alternate sides bicostate. — Hills of Contra Costa Co., 

 in the Mt. Diablo Range, near Walnut Creek, Greene, and about 

 Martinez, Frank Sweit. 



6. G. Aruottii, Walp. Rep. ii. 88 (1843) ; T. & G. Fl. i. 503 (1840), under 

 CEnothera: G. lepida, var. ArnoUii, Wats. Nearly glabrous, slightly 

 glaucous, 1 — 2 ft. high, densely flowered at the leafy summit : leaves 

 mostly opposite, except the floral, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acutish, 

 obscurely denticiilate : calyx-tube very short : corolla deep purple : 

 stigma purple, the lobes oval : capsule cylindrical-conic, bicostate on the 

 sides, glabrous. — Common in the Sacramento Valley and southward. 



7. G. albescens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxviii. t. 9 (1842). Stem erect, rigid, 

 pubescent, the branches very short, crowded at the summit : leaves 

 glabrous, glaucous, lanceolate, entire : fl. sessile, densely crowded among 

 the upper leaves on the short branchlets : calyx-tube funnelform, as 

 long as the segments : petals obcordate, % in. long, pale purple, with a 

 small darker spot in the centre : stigma-lobes narrow, greenish : capsule 

 oblong, 8-sulcate, acuminate, villous : seeds roundish, scabroiis. — Lake 

 and Solano Counties, to Monterey. 



* * Floivers in loose spikes or racemes; capsules mostly linear; 



seeds in 1 roiv. 



H— Racemes erect in hud; calyx-lobes distinct and rejiexed in flower; 



capsules sessile. 



