208 FRANKENIACEiE. Frankenia. 



Var. campestris, Gray, n. var. More tufted : leaves smaller (quarter to half inch 

 long), from narrowly spatulate to nearly linear, mostly with revolute margins in drying: 

 petals less conspicuous. — F. grandifoUa, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 326. F. Bertereuna, 

 C. Gay, Fl. Chil. i. 247, seems to be an intermediate form. — Plains near San Jacinto, S. W. 

 California, Parish; S. Nevada, Wheeler, &c. (N. Mex., interior of Chili ?) 



* * Shrubby, thickly branched, a foot or more high : style 2-cleft : ovules only 2 or 3 

 nearly basilar : leaves small and heath-like, with margins much revolute, commonly 

 much fascicled. 



F. Jamesii, Torr. Erect : branchlets scabrous-puberulent : leaves nearly glabrous, linear 

 or filiform, a quarter or third inch long : petals white, the cuneiform and erose-truncate 

 blade 2 lines long: stamens mostly 6, with anther-cells elongated- oblong. — Torr. in Gra}', 

 Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 622 ; Coulter, Man. Rocky Mt. Peg. 31. — Eastern foot of the Rocky 

 Mountains in Colorado, especially on the Arkansas; first coll. hy James ; Guadaloupe Moun- 

 tains, W. Texas, liavard. 



F. Palmeri, Watson. More spreading, barely pulverulent-puberuleut : leaves thicker and 

 shorter, a line or two long : flowers much smaller : stamens 4, with oval anther-cells. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xi. 124; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 61. — Border of salt marshes, San Diego 

 Bay, California, Cleveland, Parry, Pringle. (Lower Calif., Palmer.) 



F. PULVERULENTA, L., couimon European species, is an occasional ballast-weed in New York 

 Harbor. 



FASCICLE 11. 



Order XVIII. CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



By B. L. Robinson. 



Herbs (rarely lignescent at the base) with bland watery juice, opposite entire 

 often slightly connate leaves and regular perfect or less frequently and through 

 abortion unisexual flowers. Stems with enlarged nodes. Sepals 4 to 5, in the 

 first tribe united into a cup or tube, in the others distinct. Petals as many (or 

 none), often emarginate, toothed, or deeply bifid, in the first tribe unguiculate 

 and borne together with the stamens and ovary upon a somewhat elongated or 

 columnar torus, in the other tribes often somewhat perigynous. Stamens com- 

 monly twice as many as the pe^tals, but often fewer and when of the same num 

 ber alternating with them ; filaments free or slightly cohering near the base ; 

 anthers in trorse. Styles 2 to 5, free or in the last tribe united below; ovary 

 free, unicellular or imperfectly 2-5-celled at the base ; placentation axial ; ovules 

 amphitropous or campylotropous, usually numerous. Fruit a capsule (in one 

 foreign genus baccate), opening by 2 to 5 entire or bifid valves; seeds many 

 or by abortion few, albuminous ; embryo straight or moderately curved. 



Tribe I. SILENEiE. Sepals united into a 4-5-toothed or -lobed tube or cup. 

 Petals unguiculate and often scale-bearing at the junction of the blade and claw, 

 borne, together with the stamens and ovary, upon a columnar prolongation of the 

 receptacle. Stipules none. Flowers usually showy, perfect, or not infrequently 

 polygamous. 



