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7 TARAXIA Nutt. Raimann in Engl. & Prantl] Nat. Pfl. Fam. 111, 216.. 
Acaulescent plant with pinnatifid or entire leaves: 
and yellow or white axillary flowers. Calyx 4-parted,. 
the tube filiform, longer than the ovary, marcescent or tardily 
deciduous, Petals 4, deciduous. Stamens 8, erect; anthers oval 
or oblong and fixed near the base or linear and fixed near the 
middle. Style usually adherent to the calyx-tube: stigma capi- 
tate, entire or rarely 4-toothed . Capsule sessile. Seeds some-< 
what ascending, in a double series with a crustaceous testa. 
T. graciliflora Raimann.J. c..(£nothera gracilifora H. & A. Small 
villous annual: leaves linear, 18-30 lines long acuminate or obtuse attenu- 
ate or more frequently broad at base, entire or obscurely repand-dentate, 
ciliate calyx-tube 6-18 lines long; petals 3-5 lines long, yellow changing to 
greenish in age: capsule compressed-ovate 4-6 lines long coriaceous, tet- 
‘ ragonal below and 4-winged above the middle, the wings obliquely truncate 
and hairy: seeds horizontal, smooth. On barren plains and gravelly bars, 
southern Oregon and California. 
T. heterantha Small l.c. C£nothera heterantha Nutt. Glabrous per- 
ennial: leaves oblong-lanceolate tapering into a slender petiole. acute or 
acuminate, entire or repand, 2-4 inches long: tube of the calyx much 
- shorter than the leaves, the segments linear-lanceolate; about the length 
of the broadly obovate retuse petals, anthers oblong, fixed near the base, 
capsule 9 lines long, obovoid-oblong, tetragonal, attenuate above into the 
persistent calyx-tube, the sides nearly flat, ribbed, subreticulated: seeds 
numerous, minutely pitted. On dry plains, Eastern Oregon and Idaho to 
Utah and Nevada. 
T. ovata Smalll c. @. ovata Nutt. Subpubescent perennial leaves ovate 
to oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, acute. erosely or repandly denticulate, or 
serrulate, 2-8 inches long: calyx-tube 1-4 inches long: petals yellow, 3-10 
lines long: capsule 6 lines long, strongly torulose: seeds few, in one or two 
rows, erect, oval’a line long. In moist piaces, Southern Oregon to Cali- 
fornia. . 
T. longiflora Nutt. in Herb. Cnothera Nuttallii T. & G. Densely 
pubescent perennial: leaves lanceolate, 2-6 inches long, petioled, acumi- 
nate, deeply sinuate-pinnatifid, the numerous very unequal segments often 
roundish or obtuse: tube of the calyx 12-18 lines long; petals 5-7 lines 
long usually white: capsule 6-10 lines long, terete, attenuate above into 
the persistent calyx-tube: seeds namerous, conspicuously pitted. Along 
streams, eastern Washington to California and Nevada. 
8 SPHASROSTIGMA F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. ii, 49. 
Annual or perennial caulescent herbs with entire or pinnatifid 
leaves and yellow white or rose-color flowers in bracted or leafy 
spikes. Tube of the calyx obconic or shortly funnel form, much 
shorter than the ovary; the limb 4-parted. Petals 4, entire or 
emarginate. Stamens 8, somewhat unequal, the oblong anthers 
attached. near the middle. Stigma capitate, entire. Capsule 
linear, sessile, terete or tetragonal, attenuate at the apex, more 
or less contorted, completely 4-celled. Seeds ascending, in a 
single row in each cell, ovate to linear-oblong, smcoth or nearly 
so. 
