Draperia. 



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more or less hirsute ; the loaves opposite or the uppermost alteruate, once to thncc 

 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. N^jctelea, Linn.) 



S 1 Leaves once pinnately parted: ovules only 4 and all enclosed in the dilated invest- 

 ing placentae in the manner of the tribe : seeds globose, reticulated. — I.llisia 

 proper. 



1 E membranacea, Benth. Sparsely beset with some short and rigid bristly 

 liaii^, 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 I - 2-seeded capsule. 



Shady and damp places, from the lower part of the valley of the Sacramento to S^n Diego 

 CoroUaLly 4 lines in diameter. Ovary bearing only a few scattered and veiy stout subulate 

 bristles. 



S 2. Leaves mainly twice or thrice pinnatifid: ovules 8, viz a pair on the back as 

 well as on the front of each placenta: seeds oblong-oval, dissimilar usucUly tivo 

 remaining concealed after dehiscence. — Euckypta. {Eucrypta, ^ utt.) 



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

 foot' or 'two higli, en3ct, paniculately branched: leaves Tansy-like, dissected into 

 very many small and sliort divisions : flowers all loosely racemose : calyx-lobes ob- 

 lou'-- or broadly oval, shorter than the open-campanulate corolla, about e(iualiing tlie 

 small capsule, which is generally 6-seeded : the mostly 4 ordinary seeds enclosed 

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

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

 a single meniscoidal and smooth seed : — whence Nuttall's name. ^ Eucrypta pam- 

 culatxt & E.foliosa, Nutt. PI. Gamb. 159. Fhacelia micrantha, var.(]) bipmnatifida, 

 Torr. in Bot. Ives Colorado Exped. 21. 



Shady grounds, not uncommon from Bay of San Francisco to San Diego. Coi-olla and the 

 stellate-spreadin<r fruiting calyx about 3 lines in diameter, somctniies sma ler. Jheie an. Uso 

 nf m e ;Sh obtuse lobes to the leaves, broader calyx-lobes obovate in f™^*, -d coroUa Wy 

 exceeding the calyx ; the other with acutish lobes to the leaves, and oblong calyx-lobes conside - 

 Siy ihorteVthan^th; corolla. But they run together, and do not severally accord with the chai- 

 acters of Nuttall's two species. 



4. DRAPERIA, Ton. 

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

 lar-funnelform, with 5 short lobes ; tube Avithin destitute of appendages. Stamens 

 unequal in length, and unequally inserted low down on the tube of the 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 portion, which separates with the 

 4 seeds. These are oval, angled, and with a smoothish close coat. — A single 

 species, peculiar to California. 



1 D. systyla. Turr. A low, diftusely spreading, grayisli silky-hirsute, peren- 

 nial' herb : th/slender stems obscurely woody at the l)ase : Ict^s all opposite ovate 

 entire slcnder-petioled : flowers crowded in the scorpioid spikes of a pedunculatL 



