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TRANSCRIPTS OF SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF CALI- 



FORNIAN GENERA AND SPECIES.— II. 



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By J. BuETT Davy. 



Euphorbia dictyospekma.i^ E. exstipulata, annua, gla- 

 berrima; caule erectiusculo; verticillo triradiato, radiis 

 elongatis dichotomis; foliis serrulatis obtusis, carilinis infe- 

 rioribus spathulato-obovatis, superioribus obovato-subcor- 

 datis, rameis subcordato-ovatis ; calathidii appendioibus 

 rotundatis; capsiilae coocis distinctie verrucosis; seminibus 

 subovatis reticulato-venosis.— Accedit haec species liabitu 



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B.d E. Peplum et E. Helioscopiam, ab litraque vero notis 

 indicatis diversa. Folia fere E. Helioscopiae; calathidia 

 parva, appendicibus parvulis viridi-lutescentibus; capsula 

 depressa, altitudine sua latior, coccis rotundatis dorso verru- 

 cosis; semina ovato-subglobosa, fuscescentia, nitidula, venis 

 prominulis tenuissimis reticulata.— Hab, in portu Bpdega 

 Novae Calif orniae. ©. 



EuTOCA Wrangeliana.i^ E. diffusa, pubescens; foliis ovatis 

 acutts integerrimis; corollis calyce subduplo longioribus, 

 stamina aequantibua; placentis 8— 10-ovulatis.— Species in 

 genere xacile pulcherrima et satis, ut nobis videtur, distincta, 

 ad E. divaricaiam, Benth. proxime accedit, sed caulis in 

 nostra planta baud dichotomus, corolla calyce fere duplo 

 longior et ovula in quavis placenta pauciora. Herba canes- 

 cens, ramosissima, diffusa; folia plerumque integerrima, 

 rarius dente uno alterove instructa; calyx vix | partes 

 corollae aequans, saepe corolla subduplo brevior; corolla 

 ampla, diametro poUicari, coerulescenti-violascens, teuer- 

 rima, subhyalina, lobis suborbiculatis denticulatis, — Hab. 

 circa coloniara Ross in Nova California. 0. 



i^jpl & J/., Ind, Sem, Sort, Pelrop. ii. 37 (1835); Linnsea xi, Litt.- 

 Bericlit, p, 105 (1837). 



I7i^, & M.J Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop.^ iL 37 (1835); Linnxa^ xL Litt.- 



Bericlit., p. 106 (1837) :=S. divaricata var. ^. Wrangeliana, A. DC; 

 referred to E. divaricata^ Beuth., as "a form" by Asa Gray and included 

 in his Phacelia divaricata. 



