214 CRASSULACE.E. COTYLEDON. 



S. ciliosnm. Stems branching from a short proliferous root-stock, 2r4 

 inches high : leaves lanceolate from a broad base, long acuminate, 6-10 lines 

 long, ciliate on the margin or the cauline smooth: flowers yellow in small 

 compact cymes, sessile : petals lanceolate, acuminate, a little longer than 

 the stamens, twice as long as the ovate long-acuminate sepals: carpels 

 divergent a ove. On rocks in the Coast mountains near Koseburg, Oregon. 



S. stenopetalum Pursh. Fl. 324. Cespitose: stems erect from a 

 decumbent base, 2-4 inches high : leaves lanceolate, closely sessile, 2-4 

 lines long, granular-puberulent: flowers yellow, crowded in close compound 

 cymes, on short pedicels : petals lanceolate acute equalling or a little ex- 

 ceeding the stamens, twice as long as the ovate sepals : carpels erect, tipped 

 by the long divergent styles. On the higher ridges of Eastern Washington 

 and Oregon to the Rocky Mountains. 



*- *- Annuals. 



S. pnmilnm Benth. PL Hartw. 310. Slender, branching or single, 1-3 

 inches high: leaves ovate-oblong, a line or two long: flowers sessile, in 

 sparingly branched cymes, yellow: calyx-lobes very small, triangular, 

 acute ; petals linear, acute, 1-2 lines long, exceeding the stamens and 

 style : follicles short, 1-seeded, the seed erect, filling the cavity. On grav- 

 elly soil Oregon Nuttall to California. 



COTYLEDON L. Gen. n. 578. 



Herbs or soft-wood plants with thick fleshy entire leaves and 

 often showy, mostly scarlet and yellow flowers in scorpioid cymes 

 or long racemes. Calyx 5-parted, petals united into a 5-lobed 

 pitcher-shaped or cylindrical corolla. Stamens 10 inserted on 

 the corolla-tube : carpels distinct or rarely united at base, many- 

 seeded beaked by ths subulate style. 



C. Oregonensis Watson Proc Am. Acad. xvii, 373. Stems ascending 

 from a stout branched rooting caudex 6-8 inches high, the rosulate basal 

 leaves spatulate, obtuse, 8-15 lines long, the cauline oblong-spatulate, 6 

 lines long or less: peduncles axillary along the upper part of the stem 6-12 

 lines long, bearing short simple or compound few-flowered racemes, pedi- 

 cels 1-2 lines long, with small bractlets; sepals deltoid, a line long : petals 

 pale yellow, united below the middle. 4 lines long ; stamens slightly shorter, 

 carpels oblong, rounded at the top, apiculate with the slender style. East- 

 ern base of the Cascade Mts. near Mt. Hood. 



C. farinosa Baker Refug. Bot i, t. 71. Caulescent: more or less 

 mealy-pulverulent: rosulate leaves rather flaccid, ascending, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the larger ones 2-4 inches long, very acute : flowering branches 

 a span high or less with scattered hroadly ovate to lanceolate clasping 

 leaves : flowers in a rather close short compound cyme ; bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 late, rather large ; pedicels stout, 1-3 lines long : sepals broadly lanceolate, 

 about 3 lines long; petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, 4-6 

 lines long; carpels ovate-oblong about three lines long. At the mouth of 

 the Chetco River, Oregon and Southward along the Coast. 



ORDER XXXIV. DROSERACEJE S. F. Gray Arr. Brit. PI. ii, 664. 



Herbs or rarely suifrutescent plants with alternate or crowded 

 entire, usually viscid-glandular leaves without stipules and 

 perfect flowers. Se< als 5, persistent, equal, sometimes united 

 at base; imbricate in the bud. Petals 5, alternate with the 

 sepals, marcescent, stamens distinct, usually as many as petals 



