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CISTACE.*;. Iltliantheniui 



the root : leaves somewhat succulent, often fascicled, ^ to I inch long : flowers 

 minute, subtended by small bracts : capsules in lung loose spikes, depressed-globose, 

 about 1 ^ lines in diameter, angled and sulcate, shortly 4-beaked. — Mull in DC. 

 Prodr. IG^. 587. 0. </laucescens, Caiubess. in Jaccjuem. Voy. 4. 24, t. 25. Ellimia 

 1-uderalis, Nutt. in Turr. & Or.iy, Fl. i. 125. 



San Diego (Nutlall); Moliuve Di-scrt {Ncwhcrrii); Colonulo Dcsuit {,Blakc, Cuultcr); (inadiihi|.e 

 Island {ruiDiei); and in the interior to New Mexico and Mexico. 



Okdeu X. CISTACE^. 



Distingiiished from the other onlers with free ono-celleil ovary, parietal placenta;, 

 and hypogynous petals and stamens, by the orthotropous ovules on slender stalks, 

 and the slender more or less curved or convolute embryo in mealy albumen. — 

 Flowers perfect and regular. Sepals persistent, usually 5 ; and two of them smaller, 

 wholly exterior, and bract-like. Petals usually ephemeral. Stamens indefinite or 

 in some flowers few, with tiliibrm lilaments : anthers short. Style one. Ovules 

 with 3 parietal placentui. Capsule 3-valved ; the seeds borne on the middle of the 

 valve, few or numerous. — Herbs or low shrubs, with opposite or alternate simple 

 and entire leaves ; chiefly of the Mediterranean region, but several in the Atlantic 

 United States, none in the interior, only one on the Pacilic coast. 



1. HELIANTHEMUM, Tourn. 

 Petals 5, broad. Stamens usually numerous. Style short, articulated with the 

 ovary : stigma 3-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 1-celled, 3-valved, few -many-seeded. Em- 

 V)ryo curved or hooked. — Low branching herbs, or somewhat woody; flowers yellow, 

 often showy, opening only onco, in sunsliine. 



A genus of from 30 to 150 species according to tlio views of authors, j)rincii>ally native to the 

 Mediterranean region and Western Asia. Five species are found in the Atlantic States and the 

 following in Caliloinia. 



1. H. SCOparium, Nutt. Perennial C?), woody at base, much branched, pubes- 

 cent with stellate hairs or glabrate, a foot high ; the upper branches green and 

 slender: leaves narrowly linear, 4 to 12 lines long, alternate : flowers on slender 

 pedicels, solitary or subcoryndio.so at tlio ends of the branchlets : sepals 3 lines long, 

 acuminate, the outer ones linear and shorter : [xtals 4 lines long : stamens about 20: 

 style short : capsule equalling the calyx, often, with the other parts of the flower, 

 much reduced. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 152; Lindl. in Jour. Hort. Soc. v. 79. 

 Linum trisepalnm, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 42, fig. 10. 



Rather common on dry hills from Luke Co. to San Diego. 



Order XI. VIOLACEiE. 



Herbs (at least those of temperate climates and the northern hemisphere), dis- 

 tinguished by the somewhat irregular one-spurred corolla of 5 petals, 5 stamens, 

 adnate introrse anthers conniving over the pistil, which has a single club-shaped 

 style with a one-sided stigma, a one-celled ovary with 3 parietal several-ovuled 

 placentae ; the ovules anatropous ; the rather large seeds with a smooth hard coat, 

 and a large and straight embryo in fleshy albumen ; its cotyledons broad and 



