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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.(?) Macounii Tre].1 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. 
++ Glarous and glaucous; stems terete slender rather tall except in 
the variety usually somewhat cespitose, leaves mostly simple and oppo- 
site, subsessile with faint lateral veins; flowers erect or suberect; seeds 
obovoid; scarcely beaked, coarsely papillate. 
E. glaberrimum RBarbey. Bot. Cal. i, 220. About a foot high, simple 
or nearly su: 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: capsule 3 inches long, linear, faleate; seeds very rough with blunt 
papille, abruptly rounded to the short insertion of the barely dingy coma. 
In high mountains Washington to California. 
Var. latifolium Barbey |. 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. 
++ +» Puberalent at least in lines; seeds more fusiform, usually 
somewhat beaked above. ; 
= Seeds papillate. 
E. Oreganum Greene Pitt. i, 225. Two 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 suh- 
tending leaves; seeds rather abruptly short appendaged; coma somewhat 
ainey- Mountains, Brit Columbia to California, Colorado, Utah and 
urope 
= = Seeds 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, 
