Slipulicida. CARYOPHYLLACEiE. 255 



Eng. Bot. t. 1031 ; Ell. Sk. i. 182. — Introduced in S. Carolina near Charleston and at 

 Camden, Curtis ; also naturalized in California, Napa Co., Jepson, and Solano Co., Bioletti ; 

 and occasionally found on ballast in the Middle Atlantic States. (Introd. from the Old 

 World, where widely distributed.) 



P. depressum, Nutt. Smaller : stems numerous, 1 to 2 inches long : leaves opposite, spat- 

 ulate, obtuse, attenuate to slender petioles : bracts much shorter than the scarcely carinate 

 sepals : petals very narrow or subflliform : capsule splierical. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 1. c. 

 174; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 71. — Sandhills, S. California, near San Diego, Nuttall, 

 Cleveland, near San Bernardino, Lemmon, Pcmsh, also on Sta. Barbara and Sta. Catalina 

 Ids., Brandegee. (Lower Calif., Orcutt, Palmer.) 



18. LCEFLING-IA, L. (Dedicated to PeiSe?- Zce/m^, a Swedish traveller 

 and naturalist, born 1729.) — Small spreading glandular somewhat rigid annuals, 

 with subulate inconspicuous leaves and sessile solitary or more commonly fascicu- 

 late greenish flowers. — Spec. i. 35 ; Loefl. It. 162 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 380. 



* Outer sepals provided with lateral teeth. 



Li. Texana, Hook. Branching from near the base : branches 4 to 6 inches long : flowers 

 cliiefly borne upon short secuud and somewhat recurved branchlets : sepals straiglit or 

 slightly curved : stamens in the flowers examined 3 (5 ace. to Hooker and Gray) : seeds 

 rather broadly obovate. — Ic. t. 285 (text with t. 275) ; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 219. L. squar- 

 rosa, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 674 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 23, t. 106 (figs. 7 and 8 representing the 

 seed too narrow and with cotyledons incumbent instead of -accumbent as is the case) ; 

 Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 31. — Central and Eastern Texas, Drummond, Wright, 

 Hall; northward to Nebraska, Webber (ace. to Britton). Differing slightly, but as it 

 appears constantly, from the following. 



L. squarrosa, Nutt. Smaller, 2 to 4 inches high : branchlets scarcely or not at all se- 

 cund : sepals pretty strongly recurved and squarrose : stamens 3 (to 5 ?) : seeds oblong or 

 elliptical in outline. — Torr. & Gray, FI. i. 174 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 72 ; Wats. Bibl. 

 Index, 104 (excl. syn. ) ; Brandegee, 1. c. — Sandy soil, California, from San Diego northward 

 to the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Co., Lemmon. (Lower Calif., Brandegee.) 



* * Sepals all entire. 



Li. pusilla, Cdrrav. Low and condensed, 2 to 3 inches in height : branches closely flowered, 

 not distinctly secund : sepals lanceolate, acute and bristle-tipped : stamens (in flowers exam- 

 ined) 3. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 152; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 220. — Tehachapi, California, 

 4,000 ft., Mrs. Curran. This very interesting species has the calyx of a Cerdia, but is dis- 

 tinguished from that genus by the number of stamens, the absence of a style, and the ac- 

 cumbent position of the cotyledons, which in Cerdia appear to be constantly incumbent. 



19. STIPULICIDA, Michx. (Name from the Latin sti'pula, stalk, blade, 

 stipule, and ccedere, to cut, from its deeply divided stipules.) — Fl. i. 26, t. 6; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 25, t. 107. — A very small or perhaps monotypic genus, scarcely 

 differing in its technical characters from the Old World Polycarpcea, but with a 

 distinct habit, somewhat that of an Eriogonum. 



S- setacea, Michx. 1. c. A span high : root simple : stems dichotomously forked : radical 

 leaves spatulate, 2 to 4 lines long, narrowed to a slender petiole : flowers small, fascicled 

 (usually 3 to 6 together) at the ends of the naked branches : bracts awn-like from a lanceo- 

 late more or less fimbriate-margined base, and nearly equalling the flowers. — Chapni. Fl. 

 47. Poli^carpon stipulicidum, Pers. Syn. i. Ill ; Pursh, Fl. i. 90. — Sandy soil, Nortli Caro- 

 lina to Florida. 



S. filiformis, Nash. More slender and with more numerous branches : fascicles fewer 

 (l-3)-flowered: bracts shorter. — Bull. Torr. Club, xxii. 148. — Dry .sandy soil, in "scrub" 

 and pine woods, near Eu.stis, Florida, Nash. An apparently identical form was collected on 

 the Manatee River by Rugel, no. 61. It is doubted whether the differences between this and 

 the preceding will be found constant. 



