BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. 



BUTTERCUPS. 

 Ranunculacice Californicus. Benth. 



More or less pilose ; stems erect, or nearly so, twelve to eighteen inches high ; root 

 a cluster of somewhat thickened fibers ; radical leaves, commonly pinnately ternate, the 

 leaflets laciniately cut into three to seven lobes or parts, which are usually linear; flowers 

 five to ten lines in diameter; petals usually ten to fourteen, narrowly obovate ; sepals 

 shorter than the petals, reflexed ; akenes nearly two lines long, much flattened and with 

 sharp edges; beak short and curved; heads compact, ovate or globular (Brewer & 

 Watson). 



EVENING PRIMROSE. 



(Enothera Californica. Watson. 



Hoary-pubescent and more or less villous ; stems herbaceous from a running root- 

 stock, decumbent, about a span long ; leaves narrowly oblanceolate, acuminate, mostly 

 petioled, sinuately toothed or irregularly pinnatifid two to four inches long; flowers large, 

 white, becoming pinkish, axillary (Brewer & Watson). 



BURR-CLOVER. 



Orthocarpus linearilobus. Benth. 



A foot high, above with hirsute or somewhat hispid pubescence ; leaves with few or 

 several long and slender divisions ; floral ones equaling the densely spicate flowers, the 

 tips of their divisions commonly tinged with purple ; calyx-lobes much longer than the 

 tube and equaling that of the (purplish ?) corolla ; sacs of the latter narrow, tapering 

 gradually downward, much longer than deep ; the ovate-subulate teeth thickish and short 

 (Brewer & Watson). 



