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1. P. CUCuUata, Benth. Stems slender from a woody base, 2 to 8 inches lii^h 



mostly simple, puberulent above : leaves glabrous or sliglitly pubescent, oblon-'-huu-e- 

 olate or sometimes ovate-elliptical, 1 to 1 inch long, acute or obtuse, cuneate^at base 

 and very shortly petioled : flowers rose-colored, on pedicels 1 to 3 lines Ion- with 

 out bracts : sepals glabrous or nearly so ; the outer 2,^ lines long, rounded-sa'cate at 

 base; the wings rather broadly spatulate, 4 to 6 lines long: lateral petals linear-lanco- 

 olate, somewhat ciliate, equalling the broad obtuse more or less curved beak of the 

 rounded hood : fruit mostly from apetalous flowers near the root ; capsule glabrous 

 broadly ovate, 2| to 3 lines long, retuse above, nearly sessile, narrowly margined' '• 

 seed 2 lines long, somewhat pubescent ; the caruncle vesicular and wrinkled cafyntra- 

 like, half the length of the seed. — PI. Hartw. 299. P. Nutkana, Torrey, Bot 

 Mex. Bound, 49, t. 12. ' j> • 



From Santa Barbara to Ukiah, on dry hillsides. This has usually been confounded witli the 

 next, and with it referred to P. Nutkana, Jlocjino, which however is doubtless a Mexican plant 

 and the same as P. ovalifolia, DC. ^ 



2. P. Californica, Nutt. Much resembling the last ; but stems more shrubby, 

 stouter and more branched, | to 1 foot high or more : flowers greenish white, usually 

 fruiting : sepals all densely tomentose ; the wings oblong, scarcely narrowed at base : 

 lateral petals only equalhng the hood, which bears a straight narrow erect beak : 

 capsule ovate, 4 lines long, emarginate or retusely 2-toothed at the apex, narrowly 

 winged : seed 3 lines long, densely hairy ; the caruncle firm and terete, with a thin 

 lateral wmg partially covering the body of the seed.— Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 671. 

 P. Nutkana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. P. cucullata, Newberry, Pacif. E. Eep. vi 70 

 P. cormita, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. i. 61. 



In the Sierra Nevada, from El Dorado Co. to Oregon {Ncwherry) ; in pine forests. Possibly 

 Nuttall included both species under his description, but specimens ticketed by him belong to the 

 present form. Dr. Torrey ticketed specimens of his own collection as from Santa Barbara, prob- 

 ably by mistake. ^ 



3. P. subspinosa, Watson. Glabrous or more or less pubescent : the stems 

 numerous, 2 to 8 inches high, branched above, the branches often spinose : leaves 

 I to an inch long, oblong or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, attenuate to a narrow base : 

 bracts narrow, scarious; pedicels 2 to 4 lines long, at length usually deflexed : sepals 

 glabrous or cihate ; the outer narrow, rounded-saccate at base ; the oblong rose-colored 

 wings 4 to 5 hues long : lateral petals linear, equalling the broad rounded beak of 

 the yellow keel : capsule obovate, emarginate, narrow at base, 3 lines long : seed 

 liairy, 2 lines long ; the short caruncle with membranous lateral wings more than 

 half the length of the seed. — Am. Naturalist, vii. 299. 



On dry hills near Silver City, Nevada, Kellogg : Southern Utah, from several collections, and 

 Arizona, Palmer. The only other species of the inner basin is P. acanthoclada, Gray, collected 

 by Brandegce in S. Colorado, similar to this but more Avoody and with much smaller scattered 

 whitish flowers. 



P. Xanti, Gray, of Lower California, is also a low perennial, pubescent throughout ; leaves 

 oval, shortly petioled ; flowers recurved, 3 lines long, white tinged with yellow and purple, the 

 keel not beaked or crested ; capsule ovate, 3 lines long, deeply emarginate, densely pubescent : 

 seed with a short thick caruncle. 



2. KRAMERIA, Linn. 

 Sepals 5, somewhat unequal, more or less petal-like. Petals 5 ; the 3 upper similar, 

 long-clawed, approximate, the lower short, sessile and fleshy. Stamens 4, united 

 below : anthers 2-celled, dehiscing obliquely at the apex. Ovary simple, silky : 

 ovules 2, pendulous from toward the apex of the cell : style simple, straight, 

 obliquely terminal, acutish : stigma terminal. Capsule globose, coriaceous, inde- 

 hiscent, spinose or muricate, 1-seeded. Seed naked, without albumen : embryo 

 straight, the cotyledons auriculate at base and including the radicle. — Small shrubs 



