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BOISDUVALIA, 
greenish to purple; capsule oblong 3-6 lines long, shortly hirsute or pubes- 
cent, at least the a!ternate sides tricostate. Oregon to California. 
-* * Capsule linear; flowers loosely scattered in a slender spike or 
raceme, nodding in the bud. 
+ Capsules sessile. 
l.c. Usually very slender, erect, or ascend- 
ing 1-2 ft. high, puberulent; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 1-2 inches 
long, sessile or attenuate to a short petiole; calyx-tube obconic, 2-3 lines 
long, the tips slightly free; petals 3-6 lines long, ark purple or purplish 
stigma lobes very short, yellow; ovary and capsule hairy, capsule linear 
_ 5-10 lines long, mostly short, attenuate at the apex, the sides nearly flat or 
Cpynrells -_| 
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noel es iqé 
channe'led by the prominence of the sutures.. On-dry plains, Brit. Colum- 
bia to California. 
G. tenella Watson-1l. c. Erect, 6-18 in. high, puberulent: leaves 
linear, 6-24 lines long, acute or obtuse, more or less attenuate, mostly 
_ entire: calyx-tube shortly obconic, 1-3 lines long, the tips closed or slightly 
free ; petals 3-5 lines long, deep purple; stigma lobes purple or purplish, 
the style shorter than the stamens; capsules puberulent, 8-12 lines long, 
rey SRA above but not at base, the sides nearly flat. Washington to 
alifornia, 
G. viminea Spach. Monog. Onogr. 60. Usually stout, 1-3 ft. high, 
branched; leaves linear to linear lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, narrowed at the 
base, entire; calyx-tube 2-4 lines long, the tips slightly free; petals: 9-12 
lines long, deep purple or purplish; capsule 9 lines long, 8-costate, smooth- 
ish. Washington to California. 
+ + Capsule pedicelled not costate; stigmas mostly yellow; calyx 
tips not free in the Lud. | 
G. amena Liljain Lindblom Bot. Notes 1839, 53. Usually slender, 
erect, 1-2 feet high, minutely puberulent; leaves linear to narrowly oblanceo- 
late,or sometimes lanceolate, 1-3 in. long, petioled, entire or nearly so; ca- 
lyx-tube obconic, 2-4 lines long; petals 8-15 lines long, frequently rather 
villous, as also the purple anthers, varying from nearly white to rose-culor, 
with more or less of purple; filaments rather stout; stigma-lobes linear, 
1-2 lines long, yellow; capsules 12-18 lines long attenuate to a slender 
beak above and into the pedicel below which is 2-6 lines long. Brit. 
Columbia to California. 
G. epilobioides Watson Bot. Cal. i. 231. Erect, 1-3 ft. high tomen- 
tosely puberulent; leaves linear to linear-lanveolate, 1-2 inches long, 
petioled, entire or sparingly denticulate; calyx-tube 1-2 lines long; petals 
3-6.1ines long, light purple or rose-color; stigma lobes short; capsule 6-14 
lines long, acuminate, attenuate to a short pedicel, or rarely nearly sessile. 
Brit. Columbia to California and Nevada. 
G hispidula Watson 1.c. 695. Erect, 6-12 in. high, mostly simple 
and often but 1-flowered, hispidly puberulent, especially above; leaves 
very narrowly linear. 1-2 in. long: calyx-tube 2-3 lines long; petals 6-12 
lines long, purple; filaments rather slender; style elongated and stigina- 
,obes linear; capsule.4-9 lines long, attenuate at the apex, abruptly con- 
tracted into a pedicel 2-4 lines long Brit. Columbia to California. 
12 BOISDUVALIA Spach. Hist Veg. iv, 383. 
Erect leafy annuals with alternate simple sessile leaves and 
small flowers in leafy simple or compound spikes. Calyx-tube 
funnelform above the ovary, deciduous, thé lobes erect. Petals 4, 
sessile, 2-lobed, purple to white. Stamens 8, those opposite’ the 
