272 Onagraceae 



10. S. campestre Parishii. Much resembling the type in 

 habit; cinereous throughout with a short appressed pubescence, 

 not at all hirsute; petals about 8 mm. long; pods very slender, 

 often much contorted. 



Plains about San Bernardino, Parish. The type of this apparently good 

 subspecies was collected by Parish near San Bernardino in May, 1900, and 

 is in the author's herbarium. 



** Flowers white or rose color, in loose spikes. 



11. S. alyssoides (H. & A.) Small. Erect or with few 

 ascending branches from the base, 1-3 dm. high, canescently 

 puberulent; leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, narrowed 

 into a slender petiole, repand-denticulate or entire, 2.5-5 cm. 

 long; spike elongated, many-flowered; petals rose-purple, 4-8 

 mm. long, capsule 2-5 cm. long, slender, attenuate above, con- 

 torted ; seeds ash color, minutely pitted. (CE. alyssoides H. & A.) 



10. GAYOPHYTUM Juss. 



Erect very slender diffusely branching annuals, with 

 alternate linear entire leaves and axillary white or 

 purplish flowers. Calyx-tube not prolonged above the 

 ovary, the 4-parted deciduous limb reflexed. Petals 4. 

 Stamens 8, the alternate ones usually minute and sterile ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers subglobose, fixed near the 

 middle. Ovary oblong or linear, compressed, 2-celled ; 

 stigma capitate or clavate. Capsule membranous, cla- 

 vate, 4-valved. Seeds few-many, in 1 row in each cell, 

 smooth, naked, mostly oblong. 



1. G. ramosissimum T. & G. Stem intricately dichotomous 

 with filiform branches 15-60 dm. high, glabrous below, appressed 

 canescent above or rarely with spreading hairs throughout ; leaves 

 mostly narrow, usually appressed against the branches; petals 

 nearly white, turning rose color, 1-2 mm. long; stigma about 0.4 

 mm. in diameter; capsule about 1 mm. thick, oblong to subcla- 

 vate, often torulose, erect or refracted on filiform pedicels; seeds 

 nearly erect in a single series, papillate, 0.5 mm. broad, 1.3 mm. 

 long. 



Common in the pine belt in all our mountains. 



