212 POLYGONACEAE 



Involucres sessile; leaves basal, petioled; bracts sessile, elliptic; 



scapose annuals. XIX. Puberula. 



Involucres pedimcled ; leaves and bracts similar, verticillate, 

 linear; caulescent annuals. XX. Spergulixa. 



Perianth herbaceous, closely investing the achene; involucre divided 

 to near the base; leaves spatulate; caulescent annuals. 



XXI. Salsuginosa. 

 I. Alata. 

 Involucres hairy, 3-3.5 mm. long and 1.5-2 mm. wide; stem and leaves manifestly liirsute 



and tomentbse. / 1. E. alatuni. 



Involucres glabrous; 2-2.5 mm. long and of tlje same,, width; stem and leaves nearly 

 glabrous. / htAA./^>-^tti • " t 1— --'U-*( 2. E. triste. 



V II. Eriantha. ^ 



Perianth wliitish; style hairy at least to the middle. 3. E. Jamesii. 



Perianth yellow; style hairy only at the base. 



Involucres 6-8 mm. long; leaf-blades oblong or oblanceolate. 4. E. Bakeri. 

 Involucres 9-10 mm. long; leaf-blades suborbicular to oval. 5. E. arcuatum. 



III. Fl.wa. 

 Perianth (externally) pubescent tliroughout. 



Involucre elongated-obconic, 6-8 mm. long. 6. E. Piperi. 



Involucre turbinate, 4-5 mm. long. 



Stipe-like base of the perianth very short; old leaf-bases permanently tomentose. 

 Leaf-bases tliickened; perianth copiously pubescent; leaf-blades silky above; 



involucres usually several. 7. E. flavum. 



Leaf-bases not tliickened; leaf-blades slightly floccose above; involucres few. 

 Perianth 6-7 mm. long. 8. E. chloranthum. 



Perianth about 4 mm. long. 9. E. polyphyllmn. 



Stipe-like base of the periantli slender; old leaf-bases glabrous. 



10. E. xanthum. 

 Perianth pubescent at the base only. 11. E. androsaccum. 



IV. Caespitosa. 

 Involucres with comparatively short, ovate, merely spreading lobes, long-peduncled ; 



leaves linear or nearly so, revolute; stems short, leafy. 12. E. thymoides. 



Involucres with long reflexed lobes. 



Densely cospitose, subacaulescent ; involucre solitary. 



Perianth in flowers 3-4 mm. long. 13. E. caespitosum. 



Perianth in flowers 2 mm. long. 14. E. andinum. 



Caulescent, suff ruticose ; involucres 1-5. 



Perianth greenish yellow, 6-8 mm. long; leaves spatulate or oblanceolate. 



15. E. sphacrocephalum. 

 Perianth ochroleiicous, 5 mm. long; leaves linear or Unear-oblanceolate. 



16. E. fasciculi folium. 



V. Pybolaefolia. 

 One species. 17. E. pyrolaefolium. 



VI. Umbellata. 

 Leaf-blades ovate or cordate. IS. E. compositum. 



Leaf-blades from obovate or orbicular to oblanceolate. 



Involucres solitary. 19. E. Ported. 



Involucres several, umbellate. 

 Perianth deeply yellow. 



Leaves not densely tomentose beneath. 



Umbels simple; leaves spatulate. 20. E. neglectum. 



Umbels more or less compound; leaves oblanceolate. 



21. E. biumbellatum. 

 Leaves densely tomentose beneath. 



Inflorescence more or less compound. 22. E. stellatum. 



Inflorescence simple. 



Leaf-blades obovate-spatulate or oval; perianth 6-7 mm. long. 



23. E. umbcllalum. 

 Leaf-blades rhombic-ovate or rhombic-oval; perianth 7-8 mm. long. 



24. E. Rydbergii. 

 Perianth oclu-oleucous, in age turning purplish rose-colored. 



Scape naked up to the umbel; leaves spatulate. 



Perianth about 6 mm. long; leaf-blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic, glabrous 



above at maturity. 25. E. subalpimtm. 



Perianth ai>out 8 mm. long; leaf-blades oval or ovate, permanently tomen- 

 tose above. 26. E. arid urn. 

 Scape with at least one whorl of leaves below tlic umbel; loaf-blades oblanceo- 

 late. 27. E. hcraclcoidcs. 

 VII. Laciinogyna. 

 Leaves and scape silky; the latter elongate, 1 dm. high or more; perennials with a taproot 

 and ce.spitose crown. 

 Inflorescence irregularly branched. 28. E. lachnogynurn. 

 Inflorescence subcapitate. 29. E. Telraneuris. 

 Leaves lanate, subsessile, obtuse; scape short, less than 3 cm. long, or none; pulvinate- 

 cespitose perennials; involucres capitate. 



