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2. S. triquetrum, Cav. Perennial and more or less woody at base, glabrous : 

 the slender and triangular branches disposed to climb or to be flexuous : leaves 

 deltoid-cordate or hastate, sometimes 3 5-lobed, the margins entire ; the middle 

 lobe varying to lanceolate or even linear: umbellate pedunculate clusters rather few- 

 flowered ; berry red. Cav. Ic. iii. 30, t. 259. S. Lindheimerianum, Scheele in 

 Linnsea, xxi. 766. 



From Texas westward along the southern frontier ; given on the authority of a sterile specimen 

 said to be California!!, but more likely from Arizona. 



+- +- Corolla (violet or blue and showy, often green and yellow in the throat), 5-angled 

 or very moderately 5-lobed, very flat : peduncles short, terminal or becoming lateral, 

 bearing an open forking or umbellate cyme ; a nodose or cupshaped enlargement 

 under the articulation at the base of each slender pedicel : berries purple, the base 

 covered by the somewhat enlarged calyx. 



3. S. Xanti, Gray. Perennial, nearly herbaceous except the base, pubescent 

 with simple glandular hairs, or sometimes almost glabrous: branches slender: leaves 

 thinnish, ovate or ovate-oblong, entire or repand, or rarely auriculate-lobed at the 

 usually obtuse or rounded or subcordate base : corolla from three fourths to a full 

 inch in diameter. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 90. 



Var. Wallace!, Gray, 1. c. Leaves and flowers much larger ; the former 3 or 4 

 inches long and the corolla fully an inch and a half in diameter : inflorescence and 

 branches villous with long and viscid many-jointed hairs. 



Common through the southern part of the State, and north to Santa Barbara ; also on the bor- 

 ders of Nevada, and in Sierra Co. Has been confounded with the following, and is almost as 

 polymorphous ; is known by the pubescence of simple and jointed hairs, commonly tipped with 

 a gland. Named for Xantus de Vesey, one of the first to collect it. Var. Wallacei, Catalina 

 Island, a striking form. 



4. S. umbelliferum, Eschscholtz. Perennial from a shrubby base, minutely 

 hoary-pubescent or tomentose with short many-branched hairs, occasionally almost 

 glabrous : flowering branches mostly short and leafy : leaves obovate and oblong 

 and commonly obtuse, sometimes ovate and acute, entire (half an inch to an inch or 

 two in length) ; the upper acute or narrowed, the lower and larger ones rounded at 

 base : flowers few or sever.il in umbel-like clusters : corolla about three fourths of 

 an inch in diameter. - S. Californicnm & /S. genistoides, Dunal in DC. ; the latter 

 a starved and twiggy form with small leaves. 



Common from the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada to the coast, and south to San Diego Co. 

 A very polymorphous species, producing through the season its handsome violet-blue (or rarely 

 white) (lowers. 



* * Sometimes prickly : anthers longer, tapering upwards, opening only at the tip. 



5. S. elaeagnifolium, Cav. Low perennial, or the base somewhat woody, silvery- 

 whitened all over by a dense and rather scurfy pubescence composed of many-rayed 

 stellate hairs : prickles straight and small on the branches and midribs, but some- 

 times wanting : leaves lanceolate or oblong, sinuate or entire : peduncles at first 

 terminal, few-flowered : calyx 5-angled and with slender lobes : corolla violet, 

 moderately 5-lobed, an inch or less in diameter : ovary tomentose : berry yellowish, 

 at length nearly black. 



A Mexican and extra-tropical South American species, extending from Texas to Arizona, and 

 in a shrubby form (S. Hindsianum, Benth. ) to Lower California : probably in the southeastern 

 part of the State. 



3. CAPSICUM, Tourn. CAYENNE PEPPER. CHILE. 



Calyx short, minutely toothed or truncate, little enlarging, girting the base of 

 the acrid and sometimes juiceless berry. Corolla 5 - 6-cleft. Anthers shorter or 

 not longer than the filament, oblong, blunt ; the cells opening lengthwise. Other- 



