512 FRA.NKENIArEAE 



2. BERGIA L 



Stems prlandular-pnbeseoiit. Flowers pediceled and often fascicled, 5-merous. 

 Sepals abruptly cuspidate, with stnmfj: midrib and scarious margins. Petals ob- 

 long. Capsule globose, witii a coriaceous wall. — Species 20, tropical and subtrop- 

 ical, all continents save Europe. (Dr. P. J. Bergius, Swedish naturalist of the 

 18th century.) 



1. B. texana Seub. Stems diffusely branched, 6 to 12 inches high; leaf -blades 

 obovate or oblauceohite, tapering at base, serrulate at apex, Yz to li/4 inches long; 

 sepals 2 lines loug. denticuhite on the midrib and serrulate on the margin towards 

 the apex, equaling or exceeding the whitish obovoid petals; stamens 5 or 10. 



Sandy soil, 5 to 1500 feet : Sacramento and San Joacjuin valleys; coastal South- 

 em California. Rarely seen Avith us. East to Texas and Missouri. 



Locs. — Sutter Co., Copeland 3502; Sacramento (Bot. Cal. 1:80); Merced (Fl. Fr. 114); 

 Visalia, Conqdon; Los Angeles, T. W. Minihorn 8; Elsinore, Parish. 



Eefs.— Bergia texana Seub.; Walp. Rep. 1:285 (1842); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 234 

 (1901), ed. 2, 264 (1911), Man. 639 (1925). Merimea texana Hook. Ic. PI. t. 278 (1840), type 

 from Texas, Drummond. Elatine texana T. & G. Fl. 1:678 (1840), 



FRANKENIACEAE. Frankenia Family 



Low perennial herbs or dwarf bushes. Leaves opposite, entire, the opposite 

 pairs joined at base by a narrow ciliated margin or border. Flowers perfect. 

 Ovary superior, 1-celled, witli parietal placentae. Seeds with a straight embryo. — 

 Genera 4, species 34, all continents. 



1. FRANKENIA L. 



Leaves small, crowded and fascicled in the axils. Flowers sessile, solitary, or 

 by the reduction of the upper leaves to bracts becoming somewhat cymose. Calyx 

 tubular, furrowed or almost prismatic, 4 or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, appendaged 

 at the very base of the limb, the appendage decurrent on the claw. Stamens in 

 ours 4 to 7, hypogj^nous, exserted from the calyx-tube. Style 2 or 3-cleft, included. 

 Capsule linear, angled, included in the persistent calyx, 2 to 4-valved, the seeds 

 attached by filiform funiculi to the side of the cell. — Species 31, all continents. 

 ( Johann Franke, 1590-1661, Professor at Upsala, the first author who treated of 

 Swedish plants.) 



Style 3-cleft; ovules many; herbaceous or nearly so; common 1. F. grandifolia. 



Style 2-cleft; ovules 2 or 3; dwarf bush; San Diego 2. F. palmeri. 



1. F. grandifolia C. & S. Alkali-Heath. Erect or diffuse, often slightly 

 woody at base, 6 to 13 inches high, glabrous or somewhat pubescent or short-hir- 

 sute, particularly at the nodes; leaf -blades obovate to linear-oblanceolate, 3 to 5 

 lines long, with revolute margins, sessile or short-petiolate; calyx 3 lines long, 

 narrow-cylindrical, with acute teeth; petals slightly irregular, pinkish, exserted 

 11/4 to 2 lines, with oblong or obovate blade erose at summit; stamens 4 to 7; seeds 

 numerous. 



Sea shores and salt marshes, 5 to 100 feet : Marin Co. to San Diego. South to 

 Lower California. June-Oct. 



Locs.— Pt. Eeyes, Jepson; West Berkeley, Davy; Bay Farm Isl., Alameda, Jepson 9809a; 

 Pt. Pinos, Monterey, Heller 8407; Goleta, Santa Barbara Co., Parish 11,054; Santa Cruz Isl., 

 Olive Thacher; Oxnard, Davy 7793; Nigger Slough, Los Angeles coast, Braunton 497; Long 

 Beach, W. F. Parish; Oceanside, Parish 4443; Coronado, San Diego Co., Chandler 5186. 



Var. campestris Gray. Tufted, 4 to 20 inches high ; leaf -blades mostly linear-spatulate to 

 oblanceolate, strongly revolute-margined, 2 to 4 lines long; petals less exserted (% to 1 line). — 

 Interior alkaline plains, 5 to 1500 feet: Great Valley, South Coast Eanges, eastward to Inyo Co. 

 and southward to Southern California. Also southern Nevada (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 25 : 358) . 



