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for the size of the plant ; calyx-tube narrow; petals about 2 lines long, rosy 

 capsules 10 lines long, on very slender peduncles of nearly equal length ; 

 seeds nearly ellipsoidal shortly hyaline-beaked ; coma at length cinnamon- 

 colored. Oregon (Hall No. 188.) 



Var.(?") MacouniiTrel.l c. 105 Less branched, crisp-pubescent in lines, the 

 same pubescence more or less abundant also on the flowers and capsules ; 

 leaves more ovate; seeds longer; coma paler. Washington to Athabasca, 



-*------- Producing subterranean scaly branches which ulti- 

 mately turn upwards and usually develop at once into leafy shoots. 



4* Glabrous and glaucous; stems terete slender rather tall except in 

 the variety usually somewhat cespitpse ; leaves moptly simple and oppo- 

 site, subsessile with faint lateral veins; flowers erect or suberect; seeds 

 obovoid; scarcely beaked, coarsely papillate. 



E. glaberrimum Barbey. Bot. Cal. i, 220. About a foot high, simple 

 or nearly so: leaves erect or ascending, often remote, an inch long, all but 

 the lowest lanceolate, rather obtuse, entire to slightly repand, narrowed 

 to the sometimes subpetioled base: petals purple to nearly white, 2-4 lines 

 long: capsuleS inches long, linear, falcate; seeds very rough with blunt 

 papillae, abruptly rounded to the short insertion of the barely dingy coma. 

 In high mountains Washington to California. 



Var. latifolinm Barbey 1. c. Rather firmer stemmed and more 

 branched; sometimes dwarf; leaves more divergent scarcely an inch long; 

 broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, mostly subcordately contracted to the 

 very short base. Oregon to California and the mountains of Utah. 



++ -n- Puberr.lent at least in lines; seeds more fusiform, usually 

 somewhat beaked above. 



= c eeds papillate. 



E. Oreganum Greene Pitt, i, 225. T\vo to four feet high, stout sim- 

 ple or sparingly branched with ascending branches, glabrate and glaucous 

 below, glandular-puberulent above: leaves ascending 2-3 inches long, 

 lanceolate obtuse, closely denticulate, cuneately subsessile or abruptly 

 rounded to short winged petioles: flowers rather numerous, erect in the 

 axils of the reduced upper leaves; calyx-tube 1-2 lines long, narrowly 

 funnel-form, petals violet 4-6 lines long, pubescent near the apex and on 

 the outside of the four divergent stigmatic lobes; capsule nearly erect 20 

 lines long, usually subsessile; seeds oblong, fusiform, obliquely pointed at 

 base and very shortly pellucid-beaked; coma white. In running water 

 Spring Hill, Grant's Pass, Oregon. 



E. Hornemanni Reichenb Incon. Cirt ii, 73. Mostly a span or two 

 high ; ascending, simple, somewhat crisp-hairy in the inflorescence and 

 along the decurrent lines or slightly grandular at top, otherwise glabrate : 

 leaves about an inch long, elliptical ovate, mostly very obtuse, nearly entire 

 to remotely serrulate, the lower cuneately narrowed, the upper usually 

 abruptly rounded to the short petioles : flowers rather few, nearly erect: 

 petals 2-4 lines long, lilac to deep violet: capsule an inch long, slender, 

 erect on slender peduncles, about equalling the gradually reduced sub- 

 tending leaves; seeds rather abruptly short appendaged; coma somewhat 

 dingy. Mountains, Brit Columbia to California, . Colorado, Utah and 

 Europe 



= = Reeds smooth or merely areolate. 



E. Bongardi Hausskn Oesterr Bot Zeitschr xxix 89. A foot or less 

 high, erect, simple with crisp hairy lines, apex at first nodding: leaves 1-2 

 inches long, crowded above, very broadly lanceolate, the upper acute, 



