Evening-primrose Family 265 



slender, sometimes nearly equaling the leaves; capsules some- 

 what pubescent, at length nearly glabrous, about 5 cm. long; 

 seeds faintly papillate, 0.4 mm. broad, 0.9 mm. long. 



In marshes near the coast. Cienega, Davidson; Alamitos. May-July. 



4. E. Parishii Trelease. Rather stout and intricately branched 

 even from the base, 5-8 dm. high, glabrous below, the inflores- 

 cence and capsules very sparingly, the young buds densely white- 

 tomentose; leaves 25-75 mm. long, lanceolate, very obtuse or the 

 reduced uppermost acutish, somewhat unequally or abruptly nar- 

 rowed to slender more or less elongated petioles, rather thin and 

 glabrous; flowers at length numerous, rose-colored; fruiting 

 peduncles about 15 mm. long ; seeds short-beaked, 0.4 mm. broad, 

 1-1. 25 mm. long. 



Common in damp land in the valleys and along streams below 4000 feet. 



4. BOISDUVALIA. 



Annual erect or decumbent rather rigid herbs, with 

 numerous alternate sessile leaves, and small purple 

 flowers in leafy-bracted spikes. Calyx-tube funnelform 

 above the ovary, deciduous ; the lobes erect in flower. 

 Petals 4, obovate-cuneiform, sessile, 2-lobed. Stamens 8, 

 all perfect, unequal ; filaments slender, naked at base 

 anthers oblong, fixed near the base. Ovary 4-celled, 

 several-ovuled ; stigma-lobes short, somewhat cuneate. 

 Capsule membranous, ovate-oblong to linear, nearly 

 terete, acute, dehiscent at the base. Seeds in 1 row in 

 each cell, naked and smooth. 



1. B. glabella (Nutt.) Walp. Usually much-branched, the 

 branches decumbent or ascending, bluish green, densely soft- 

 villous to glabrous; leaves about 12 mm. long or more, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, serrulate, the upper similar; flowers in a ter- 

 minal cluster and a few shorter lateral spikes, also occasionally 

 in the lower axils, shorter than the subtending leaves; petals 

 about 2 mm. long, violet; capsules rather slender, nearly straight, 

 usually acute, about 7 mm. long, subterete, with 4 broad nerves 

 or laterally somewhat 2-keeled, loculicidal ; seeds about 6 in each 

 cell, subfusiform. about 0.35 mm. broad, 1 mm. long. 



Low ground. Santa Monica; Mesmer; San Diego. July-October. 



