^raperia. HYDROPIIYLLACE^. 5O5 



more or less hirsute ; the leaves opposite or the uppermost alternate, once to thrice 

 pinnatifid. Flowers small, on solitary simple peduncles in the forks, or bractless 

 and loosely racemose at the summit of the branches : corolla white or whitish. — 

 (The following are all the species known, excepting the Eastern and original 

 E. Nyctelea, Linn.) 



§ 1. Leaves once pinnatebj parted: ovules only 4 and all enclosed in the dilated invest- 

 inrj placentae m the manner of tlie tribe : seeds globose, reticulated. — Ellisia 

 proper. 



1. E. membranacea, I'ienth. Sparsely beset with some short and rigid bristly 

 hairs, otherwise glabrous : stems a foot or so in length, weak, soon prostrate : 

 leaves pinnately divided into 3 to 9 linear very obtuse and mostly entire divis- 

 ions; the petiole wing-margined: flowers mainly racemose on a terminal pedun- 

 cle : calyx-lobes oblong or at length obovate, very obtuse, rather shorter than the 

 open campanulate corolla, not exceeding the 1 - 2-seeded capsule. 



SIm<ly ntul dnmp plams, from tlio lower pnrt of tho valley of tho Sacrainoi.to to San Dicco 

 Slos '" '^"'®^°'"- ^^'^'"y ^°''''"« °"^y ^ '"^v scattorod and voiy stout flubulato 



§ 2. Leaves mainb/ twice or thrice pinnatifid: ovules 8, viz. a pair on the back as 

 tvell as on tU front of each placenta: seeds oblong-oval, dissimilar, usually two 

 remaining concealed after dehiscence. — Eucuypta. (Eucrypla, Nutt.) 

 2. E Chrysanthemifolia, Benth. Somewhat hirsute and pubescent : stem a 

 ioot or two high, erect, paniculatoly branched : loaves Tansy-like, dissoctc<l into 

 very many small and short divisions : llowors all loo.scly racomoso : calyx-lobos ob- 

 long or broadly ova , shorter than the open-campanulato corolla, about onuallincr the 

 small capsule, which is generally 0-soeded : the mostly 4 ordinary seeds encTosed 

 between the placentce rugose-tuberculate and free in dehiscence; while between each 

 placenta and the valve (which it exactly lines and is conformed to) is concealed 

 ^ ZflT'fT Tl'r.^^'n' ^^-^'l =- ^^J^^nce Nuttall's name. - Lcrypta pani- 

 c«/a^a cfe Yf ''^«. Nutt. PL Gamb. 1.^9. Phacelia micrantha, var.(]) bijnLaSfida, 

 Torr. in Bot. Ives Colorado Exped. 21. •' 



Shady grounds not uncommon from Bay of San Francisco to Snn Diego. Corolla and the 



8tellate..sprenchng fruiting calyx about 3 lines in dinmotor, sometimes smaller So are two 



X edirtWWx 'Jh^b.^: ''•:.'"'?• ^ril^^-ly-loh- "bovato in fndt.andVi'olla barely 



abirHlSor^han thi eorolln n ?.r"*'"'' ''^'•\*" ^'^^ '«"^''"'' '^"'^ "^'>""« calyx-lobos consider- 



^fcofNuSrs^r^^tt ""* *'"^ ^"" ^■"«''^''"' '''' '•" ""^ «overali;„ccord with the char- 



4. DRAPERIA, Torr. 

 Calyx 5-parted to the base ; the divisions or sepals filiform-linear. Corolla tubu- 

 lar-funnel form, with 5 short lobes; tube within destitute of appendages. Stamens 

 uiieciual in length, and unequally inserted low down on the tube of tho corolla in- 

 cluded. Ovary strictly 2-celled, with a pair of ovules pendulous from near the 

 summit of each cell. Style long and filiform, 2-cleft at apex. Capsule globose 

 somewhat didymous, membranaceous; the thin half-partition adhering to the middle 

 of each valve, mostly without the thin placental i.ortion, which separates with tho 

 4 seeds. These are oval, angled, ami with a smoothisli close coat. — A single 

 species, peculiar to California. 



,n-.Vb?"l,®^.f^^f'T''''\ ^ \""' '''F^'^^y spreading, grayish silky-hirsute, peren- 

 nial herb : he slender stems obscurely woody at the base : leaves all opposite, ovate, 

 entire, slender-petioled : flowers crowded in the scnrpioid spikes of a pedunculate 



