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narrow wings, and the oil-tubes are very large and solitary 

 in the intervals between the dorsal and intermediate ribs. 



Lomatium Martindalei var. angnstatum, or Martindale's 

 Parsley, is caulescent and branching with elongated pe- 

 duncles. The leaves are pinnate or bipinnate with toothed 

 segments. The flowers are yellow, and the fruit has broad 

 wings and prominent dorsal and intermediate ribs; the oil 

 tubes are solitary in the intervals, and the seed-face is con- 

 cave with a central longitudinal ridge. 



NARROW-LEAVED PUCCOON 



Lithospcrmum angustifolium. Borage Family 



Stems: branched, erect or ascending. Leaves: linear, sessile, acute. 

 Flowers: of two kinds, in terminal leafy racemes; corolla of the earlier 

 ones salver-form, bright yellow, five-lobed, the lobes erose-denticulate, 

 the throat crested ; later flowers much smaller and pale yellow, cleistog- 

 amous, abundantly fertile, their pedicels recurved in fruit. Fruit: 

 nutlets white, smooth, shining, ovoid, more or less pitted, keeled on the 

 inner side. 



The French call this Puccoon Plant e mix Perles, because 

 of the hard stony seeds that mature in the calyx, and which, 

 though at first soft and green, gradually become hard, 

 white, and shining. It is on account of these nutlets that 

 the plant is named from the Greek lithos, " a stone," and 

 sperm, " a seed." The flowers are a pretty lemon colour, 

 the earlier ones being of a much deeper shade and larger in 

 size than those which appear later in the summer. They 

 grow in close leafy clusters, and have a long, salver-form, 

 five-cleft corolla. The stems and leaves are quite downy. 

 This Puccoon grows in small tufts or mats, from six to ten 

 inches high, and is usually found on the dry open lands, 

 where its 



" Leaves and branches, crossed and linked, 

 Cling like children and embrace." 



