472 HYDROPHYLLACE# CONANTHUS 
ROMANZOFFIA 
peduncles: slender, loosely and racemosely 3-7-flowered, the earliest ones 
scapiform; pedicels spreading: corolla nearly white, 5-cleft, short-campanu- 
late, about half as long as the linear obscurely spatulate calyx-lobes and of 
the ovoid very blunt capsule, persistent, its internal appendages not manifest: 
style very short, at length deciduous: capsule 8-10-seeded, Southeastern 
Oregon to Nevada. 
5 CONANTHUS Torr. Watson Bot. King 256. 
Low annuals with entire leaves and solitary flowers in the forks 
of leafy branches. Calyx 5-parted, the sinuses naked and the lobes 
not enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular-tunnelform, with a broad, 
5-lobed limb, and no appendages within. Stamens included, un- 
equal and unequally inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube. 
Nectary or disk none. Ovary 2-celled, rather many-ovuled. Style 
2-lobed at the summit. Capsule rounded-ovate 10-—20-seeded. 
Seeds ovate or oblong, smooth. | 
C. aretioides Watson Bot. King 256. Hispid-hirsute throughout: 
small and depressed winter annual 2-3 inches high, repeatedly forked from 
the very base, forming mats or tufts: leaves linear-spatulate, narrowed below 
to a petiole: flowers comparatively large and numerous, sessile in the forks, 
fully 6 lines long: calyx- filiform-linear, hispid with long spreading hairs: 
corolla purple, funnelform with rather long narrow tube and ample limb: 
sty e 2-lobec atthe summit: ovules about 20: seeds usually fewer, the testa 
thin and translucent, smooth or in age sparsely and obscurely excayated. 
Southeastern Oregon to Nevada, Arizona and California. 
6 ROMANZOFFIA Cham. in Hor. Phys. Berol. 71, t 14. 
‘Perennial herbs with alternate or chiefly radical, round, reni- 
form or cordate, crenately lobed, long-petioled leaves. and showy 
flowers in loose racemes or somewhat paniculate. Sepals or caylx- 
lobes all alike. Corolla funnelform or almost campanulate: the 
stamens inserted on the base of itstube, unequal. Style and small 
stigma entire. Inflorescence scapiform, loosely racemose. Ovary 
2-celled or nearly so, the placentae narrowly linear. Capsule ob- . 
long. retuse, many-seeded. Seeds oval, the testa alveolate-re- 
ticulated. | 
R. Sitchensis Bongard Veg. Sitk. 41+. 4. Slightly and sparsely pu- 
bescent or glabrate: stems slender, scape-like, spreading or ascending, 4-10 
inches long: leaves round-reniform, 3-7-lobed, an inch or less in diameter, 
on slender petioles 1-4 inches long, the bases of which often enlarge and be- 
come bulblets: flowers white, in a loose terminal raceme: pedicels filiform. 
becoming an inch or more long: calyx-lobes very glabrvus, subulate, about 2 
lines long: corolla funnelform, 6-8 lines long, 5-lobed, the broad lobes rounded 
at the summit: style long and slender: capsule longer than the calyx. On 
wet banks, Califurnia to Alaska west of the Cascade Mountains. 
6 CAPNOREA Raf. Fl. Tellur. iii, 75. 
HESPEROCHIRON Watson. 
Low stemless perennials with entire spatulate or oblong leaves on 
mostly elongated margined petioles crowning the caudex or root- 
stock, and from their axils sending up naked 1-flowered peduncles 
