214 CRASSULACER. cOTTLEDON, 
S. ciliosum. Stems branching from a short proliferous root-stock, 2-4 
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 Roseburg, 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. Onthe higher ridges of Eastern Washington 
and Oregon to the Rocky Mountains. 
+ + Annuals. 
S. pumilum 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 gray- 
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 th subulate style. : . 
C. Oregonensis Watson Proc Am. Acad. xvii, 373. Stems ascendin 
- from a stout branched rooting caudex 6-8 inches high, the rosulate basa 
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- 
ceils 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 1, 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 broadly 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. 
Orper XXXIV. DROSERACE 8. F. Grav Arr. Brit. Pl. ii, 664. 
_ Herbs or rarely suffrutescent 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 
