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5-lobed, spreading. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube of 

 the corolla; filaments filiform; anthers 4-celled; style 

 slender; stigma capitate. Capsule 2-valved or some- 

 times 4-valved at the summit, smooth. Seeds numerous, 

 small. 



Annual herbs. 



Calyx-teeth fully twice the length of the tube. 1. N. clevelandi. 



Calyx-teeth about equalling the tube. 2. N. higelovii. 



Tree. 3. iV. glauca. 



1. N. clevelandi Gray. Viscid-pubescent or the stem villous, 

 2-6 dm. high; leaves ovate or the upper ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 cm. 

 long, the lower obtuse and with margined petiole not dilated at 

 base, the upper subsessile and gradually narrowing from a broad 

 and rounded or truncate base into an acuminate apex; bracts 

 lanceolate; flowers paniculate-racemose; calyx-lobes linear, unequal; 

 the longer fully twice the length of the tube, more than half the 

 length of the corolla; corolla greenish-white, tinged with violet, 

 almost glabrous, 2.5 cm. long, salver-shaped, the somewhat 5-lobed 

 limb 1 cm. broad; filaments slender, equally inserted low down on 

 the tube of the corolla. 



Sand-dunes along the seashore near Playa del Ray. 



2. N. bigelovii Wats. Viscid-pubescent; stems 3-6 dm. high; 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, sessile or nearly so, the lower 12-18 cm. 

 long, with tapering base, the upper 4-8 cm. long, more acuminate, 

 with acute or some with broader and clasping base; inflorescence 

 loosely racemiform; the upper flowers bractless; calyx-teeth unequal, 

 linear-subulate, about equaling the tube; corolla white, its tube 

 3-5 cm. long, narrow, with a gradually expanded throat, the limb 

 5-angulate-lobed, 15-25 mm. broad; filaments somewhat unequally 

 inserted high up on the corolla-tube. 



Occasional in dry washes about Los Angeles. 



3. N. glauca Graham. Arborescent, 3-6 m. high, glaucous and 

 glabrous; leaves long-petioled, ovate, subcordate; flowers loosely 

 paniculate; corolla greenish-yellow, 3-5 cm. long, tubular, con- 

 tracted at the throat, its limb erect, 5-crenate. 



A well-established introduced plant; rather common along 

 streams. Flowering all the year. 



6. PETUNIA Juss. Petunia. 

 Viscid-pubescent annual or perennial branching herbs, 

 with entire leaves and axillary or terminal solitary 

 flowers. Calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted, the segments 

 narrow. Corolla funnelform or salver-shaped, its limb 

 plicate spreading, slightly irregular. Stamens 5, inserted 

 on the throat of the corolla, 4 of them didynamous, per- 

 fect, the fifth smaller, obsolete; filaments slender. Ovary 

 2-celled; style filiform; stigma 2-lamellate. Capsule 

 2-celled, 2-valved. 



