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634. Style abbreviated. 



Glabrous ; leaves mostly basal, from lanceolar to linear, 

 pinnatisected, with narrow segments, or some incised or 

 only denticulated ; petals little longer than the sepals ; 

 fruits distant, the lowest down to near the base of the 

 stem, about thrice as long as their stalklets ; seeds brown. 



C. laciuiata. 



Style elongated. 



Dwarf ; leaves pinnatisected, their segments from elliptical 

 to rhomboid, mostly indented ; sepals longer than the 

 petals ; fruits generally several times longer than their 

 stalklets ; seeds very minute, in two rows, brown. 



C. eustylis. 



635. Petals yellow. 



Annual, rather dwarf ; leaves from lanceolar to broad- 

 linear, indented or some entire ; fruits hardly longer 

 than their stalklets; venule of valves carinular-prominent; 

 dissepiment ianceolar. E. curvipes. 



Petals white or pink ... ...... 636 



636. Perennial. 



Subalpine plant ; leaves from spatulate-lanceolar to rhom- 

 boid ; fruit quadrangular-ellipsoid, acute, comparatively 

 small, about as long as the stalklet ; seeds shining, dark- 

 brown and reticulated outside. E. capsellinuxii. 



Annual ... ... ... ... ... 637 



637. Fruit hardly or slightly longer than its stalklet. 



Leaves mostly lanceolar in outline, indented or pinnatifid ; 

 petals much longer than the calyx ; fruits lanceolar - 

 ellipsoid, much beset with hairlets ; carinular venule of 

 the valves faint. Figure 8. E. lasiocarpum. 



Fruit much longer than its stalklet ... ... ... 638 



638. Fruit lanceolar-cylindrical, few times longer than broad. 



Upper leaves from lanceolar to rhomboid, indented or 

 denticulated ; lower leaves spatular in outline, pinnati- 

 lobed or incised ; petals hardly longer than the calyx ; 

 fruits lanceolar- ellipsoid, several times longer than their 

 thick stalklets, beset with very short hairlets ; carinular 

 venule of the valves faint. E. brevipes. 



