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ELATINE AMERICANA Am. 



Leaves obovate, very obtuse: fls ses- 

 sile, closed or sometimes expanded and 

 remaining- so, purplish: stamens 2 or 3, 

 as many as the petals and sepals: 

 seeds cylindrical, slightly curved, 

 about 1 mm long, very minutely pit- 

 ted, 20-30 pits in each of 9 or 10 longi- 

 tudinal lines. San Bernardino mts. 

 (Parish 1431); Oregon, Atlantic states, 

 Fiji Islands, Australia. 



ELATINE BRACHYSPERMA Gray. 



Mostly terrestrial, sometimes sub- 

 merged or floating: leaves oblong or 

 oval and attenuate at base or sublan- 

 ceolate: fls sessile, mostly dimerous; 

 stamens 2 or 3; seeds short-oblong, 

 nearly straight, not over .5 mm long, 

 pitted in 6-7 lines of 10-12 pits. Cal. 

 111. Texas. 



ELATINE CALIFORNICA A. Gray. 



Floating: leaves obovate, attenuate 

 at base, the lower with a petiole not 

 longer than the blade: fls shortly pedi- 

 cellate, with 3 -or 4 sepals and petals 

 and twice as many stamens: seeds cir- 

 cinate-incurved, about 1 mm long, mi- 

 nutely pitted in 10-12 lines of about 

 25 pits each. Sierra valley, Cal. 



BERGIA TEXANA Seubert. 



Annual, glandular-pubescent, branch- 

 ing from the base, a span high, lower 

 branches somewhat decurrent: leaves 

 oblanceolate, acute, serrulate, %-!% 

 in. long, attenuate to a short petiole: 

 fls fascicled, shortly pedicelled: sepals 

 carinate. about 3 mm long, exceeding 

 the petals and stamens: capsule glo- 

 b-ose: seeds smooth an-d shining. Co- 

 mondu, Baja Cal. (Br); San Diego 

 (Or 686) to Sacramento, Cal.; Nevada. 

 Texas. 



HYPERICUM ANAGALLOIDES C.-S. 



Stems many, weak, slender, procum- 

 bent -or ascending, 1-10 in. long, simple 

 or dichotomously branched: fls small, 

 in leafy or naked, simple and few-fl'd 

 or compound cymes, not glandular or 

 punctate. Mts. San Diego Co. to Brit- 

 ish Columbia, in moist places. 

 HYPERICUM SCOULERI Hook. 



Stems erect, from a running root- 

 stock, l / 2 -2ft. high, terete, simple or 

 sparing' y branched: fls few in an open 

 cyme, black-punctate. By mt. streams, 

 San Diego Co. (Or); British Columbia; 

 New Mexico; Sonora. 



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SIDALCEA NITROPHYLLA Parish. 



"Root thick but not lignescent; the 

 whole plant glabrous except the leaves 

 and calyx, which are very sparsely 

 hirsute with short, simple hairs; leaves 

 mostly broad, thin, orbicular, sharply 

 and irregularly toothed, 6-18 mm wide, 

 on petioles 3-5 cm long; stems few, 15- 

 20 cm high; inflorescence paniculate 

 with few and short branches: fls rath- 

 er distant, on pedicels 4-6 mm long, 

 which are subtended by short and 

 slender bifid bracts; corolla 8 mm high, 

 light-purple; stamineal phalanges in- 

 distinct; mature carpels entirely 

 smooth, 2 mm high, their short, subu- 

 late beaks erect." Parish, Erythea 7: 

 93. Alka ine meadows, Rabbit springs, 

 3.000 ft. alt.. Mohave desert (Parish 

 1804). 

 SIDALCEA PARVIFLORA Greene. 



"Stoutish, erect, 2-4 ft. high, nearly 

 glabrous', only the stem a little glau- 

 cescent and with a few apparently sim- 

 ple hairs, the foliage beneath, and also 

 the calyx, more densely short-pubes- 

 cent: racemes few, paniculately dis- 

 posed: calyx segments acute or almost 

 acuminate: petals very small O/4 to 

 one-third long), rose-cotor, round-ob- 

 ovute. erose at summit but neither 

 emarginate nor even truncate: achenes 

 rather notably angular but smooth. In 

 brackish or sub-alkaline marshes of 

 Los Angeles and San Bernardino coun- 

 ties, California." Greene, Erythea 1: 

 148-9. 

 MALVASTRUM THURBERI A. Gray. 



Shrubby at base, 3-5 ft. high, with 

 wand-like branches, densely tomen- 

 tose: leaves thick and subrugose; 

 shortly petioled, the upper nearly ses- 

 sile, rounded, cordate or truncate at 

 base, somewhat 3-5-lobed, crenate, 1- 

 iy 2 in. long: fls small, nearly sessile in 

 an interrupted naked spike, or more 

 expanded and racemose. 



Baja Cal. to Santa Barbara, Cal.; So- 

 nora (Thurber). 

 MALVASTRUM MARRUBIOIDES D.-H. 



"Malvastrum folrosum. Stout, tall 

 and erect, simple above and leafy to 

 the summit, densely and coarsely stel- 

 late-pubescent throughout: leaves 

 thick, broadly ovate, subcuneate at 

 base, shortly or obscurely 5-lobed, the 

 lobes acute and acutely dentate, l%-2 

 in. long, on petioles y 2 m - long; fls 



