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8. ANOGRA Spach. 



Low caulescent herbs, the stems often with papery 

 bark. Leaves alternate, entire or usually toothed. 

 Flowers drooping In the bud, perfect, white or pink, 

 usually axillary, diurnal. Calyx-tube elongated, gradu- 

 ally enlarged upward, calyx-lobes narrow, becoming 

 reflexed. Stamens 8, equal In length; filaments filiform; 

 anthers linear. Ovary elongated 4-celled; styles united, 

 filiform; stigma deeply 4-cleft; capsules spreading or 

 ascending, 4-angled, loculicidal. Seeds ascending In 1 

 row, terete, not angled. 



1. A. calif ornica (Wats.) Small. Stems decumbent from a 

 running rootstock, 1-2 dm. long, branching; herbage hoary-pubescent 

 and more or less villous; leaves narrowly oblanceolate, sinuately 

 toothed or pinnatifid, 6-8 cm. long; ovary and calyx villous; calyx- 

 tube about 2 cm. long; petals white turning pink, lobed at apex, 

 with a rounded sinus; capsule 4-6 cm. long. {Oenothera calif ornica 

 Wats.) 



Occasional in sandy soil. Near Santa Ana, Geis; Cucamonga. 



9. EULOBUS Nutt. 



A smooth erect annual with alternate leaves and 

 middle-sized flowers; sessile along the virgate branches. 

 Calyx-tube scarcely at all produced beyond the ovary, 

 the limb 4-parted, reflexed. Petals 4, rhombic-ovate, 

 sessile, pale yellow turning reddish. Stamens 8; anthers 

 oblong, attached near the middle. Ovary 4-celled; 

 stigma capitate. Capsule linear, elongated, 4-angled, 

 4-valved, imperfectly 4-celled, reflexed. Seeds numer- 

 ous, ovate-oblong, naked. 



1. E. calif ornicus Nutt. Stem 3-10 dm. high, rather stout, 

 simple or with a few spreading virgate branches; leaves linear, 2.5-5 

 cm. long, sinuately pinnatifid, with numerous unequal divaricate 

 acute teeth; calyx-tube prolonged less than 1 mm. above the ovary; 

 petals 8-10 mm. long, pale yellow or nearly white; capsule 6-10 

 mm. long; seeds 3-angled. 



Frequent in the chaparral belt throughout our range. 



10. SPHAEROSTIGMA F. & M. 



Annual or perennial herbs with erect branching or 

 spreading stems, the bark often exfoliating and shiny. 

 Leaves alternate, entire or dentate, petloled or sessile. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils or in terminal spikes, usually 

 yellow, rarely white or rose color, often with a brownish 



