IVkanUa. HYDROPIIYLLACE^-:. 515 



5. E. pusilla, Clray. Soft-pubescent, an inch or two high, erect, <at length 

 brancliecl t'roni the base : leaves oblong-lanceolate or spatulato, 2 to 5 lines long and 

 with slender petiole of equal lengtli : flowers 3 to 7, scattered in a filiform loose 

 raceme, the primary one scapiform ; pedicels spreading : corolla about half the 

 length of the linear and obscurely spatulate calyx-lobes and also of the ovoid very 

 obtuse and pointless capsule : style very short and deciduous. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xi. 87. 



Northwostorn Novndn, IFatson (young snociinons, takon for a statt; of J'haccfia pusilla), also 

 Jjcmmon. Calyx in blossom one lino, in fnut 2 lines long. Corolla apparently white, persistent, 

 investing the base of the capsule. Seeds strongly coirugatod. 



§ 2. Larger, with loose 2^fifi'icled racemes : seeds coarsely 2^ittcd : calyxdohes broader 

 downtvard : style deciduous : corolla cream-colored, with short rounded lobes, 

 destitute of appendages. — Emmenanthe i)roper. 



6. E. penduliflora, Benth. A span to a foot high, villous-pubesceut, some- 

 what viscid : leaves pinnatitid; the lobes iiumerou.^, short, somewhat toothed or 

 incised : pedicels filiform, at base sometimes brivcted, as long as the at length nod- 

 ding flowers : filaments almost free from the broadly campanulate unwithering 

 corolla : ovules about IG. 



Open ground, not mre from Lake Co. to San Diego, extending cast to Southern Utah. Flowers 

 handsome : corolla almost half an inch long. Seeds a lino long. 



7. CONANTHUS, S. Watson. 



Cnlyx deeply 5-pnrtod, the lobes very narrow and similar. Corolla funnolfonn, 

 not appendagod, deciduous. Stamens unequally inserted nroro or less high on the 

 tube of the corolla : filaments slender. Stylo 2-cleft at apex, sometimes nearly 

 entire: stigmas capitellate. Ovary and capsule 2-cclled, 10- 20-seeded. Seeds 

 with a thin nnd translucent coat, nearly smooth, the sid('S obscurely rugose or 

 excavated when mature. — "Watson, Bot. King Exp. 25G ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 329. Eidoca (?) sect. Conanthus, A. DC. 



1. C. aretioid.es, Watson, I.e. A small and depressed winter-annual, repeatedly 

 forked from the very base, two or three inches high, soon forming a matted tuft, 

 liirsute-hispid, flowering copiously a long time : leaves spatulate-linear (an inch 

 or less long) : flowers sessile in the forks, half an inch long : corolla with a nar- 

 row tube and rather ample limb, purple. — Eutoca aretioides, Hook. & Arn. Bot. 

 Beechey, 374 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 355. 



Dry eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, and adjacent portions of the interior region, from Oregon 

 to Arizona. Plant with mostly the characters of Noma, except tlie united styles. Stamens and 

 stylo varying in length and height of insertion, npi>arently from dimorphism. 



8. TRICARDIA, Ton. 

 Calyx-lobes or sepals very dissimilar, tliree ouf cr ample aiid round-cordate, thin- 

 lierbaceous, enlarging and becoming scarious and reticulated with ago ; the two 

 inner small and linear. Corolla broadly campanulate, deciduous ; internal appen- 

 dages 10 narrow plaits, free and rather distant from the unequal filaments. Style 

 2-cleft. Ovary glabrous, incompletely 2-cellod : ovules 4 to each placenta. Flowers 

 raeomo.Ho, vntlior few : corolla pin-plisli. — S. Wataon, Bot. King Kxp. 258, t. 21. 



1. T. WatSOni, Torr. in Bot. King, 1. o. A low perennial, branched from the 

 base, a 8])an high, rottony-puboscont, but nearly glabrous when old : leaves all alter- 

 nate, entire ; the radical aiul lower caulino spatulatelanceolate (one or two inches 

 long) and tapering into a margined petiole; the upper much smaller and more 



