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10. POLYCARPON, Lwfling. Low annuals, diffusely dichotomous, 

 with flat leaves, small scarious stipules and minute cymose flowers. 

 Sepals 5, carinate-concave. Petals 5, minute, hyaline. Stamens 35. 

 Ovary 1-celled; style short, 3-cleft. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. 



1. P. TETBAPHYLLUM, Linn. Branched from the base and depressed, 

 the branches 37 in. long: leaves % in. long, obovate, short-petiolate, 

 the lower pairs with a second rather smaller pair at right angles to them 

 so as to appear whorled: stipules triangular-lanceolate: cymes many- 

 flowered, dense, the small flowers short-pedicelled : sepals green or pur- 

 plish, scarious-margined: petals scarious, shorter than the sepals: cap- 

 sule about equalling the calyx: seeds yellowish brown, semiorbicular, 

 compressed, with a sharp muriculation disposed in irregular striae. Nat- 

 uralized in Napa and Solano counties. Bioktli, Jepson. 



11. LCEFLINGIA, Linn. Low much branched rather rigid and 

 pungent-leaved annuals; the leaves with adnate and connate setaceous 

 stipules. Flowers small, sessile in the axils of the leaves and branches. 

 Sepals 5, rigid, cariuate. Petals minute or 0. Stamens 35. Ovary 

 1-celled; style very short or 0. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. 



1. L. sqnarrosa, Nutt. The numerous prostrate or erect-spreading 

 branches 2 6 in. long; herbage glandular-pubescent: leaves and sepals 

 subulate-setaceous, rigid and recurved, the leaves 23 lines long, the 

 sepals somewhat shorter: capsule elongated, triquetrous, at length ex- 

 serted, oo -seeded. Plains of the lower San Joaquin, and Sacramento. 



OEDEB XIII. FRANKENIACE/E. 

 An order embracing scarcely more than the genus 



FRANCA, Micheli. Herbs or undershrubs with opposite entire small 

 exstipulate leaves usually sessile and even united at base by a slight 

 membranous continuation of the blade. Fl. small, solitary and sessile 

 in the axils of the very numerous branches and branchlets, usually 

 5-merous and complete. Calyx tubular, furrowed; the lobes valvate and 

 induplicate in bud. Petals hypogynous, narrowed to a claw which bears 

 an appendage on its inner face. Style cleft into 2 4 filiform divisions; 

 ovary 1-celled. Capsule 'in vested by the persistent calyx; the few seeds 

 attached to the margins of the 2 4 valves. 



1. F. graudifolia (Esch.). Somewhat woody at base, erect, much 

 branched and slender, % 1 ft. high, glabrous or soft-pubescent, very 

 leafy: leaves obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, revolute, %% i n - l n g 

 of a dull green: calyx linear, }^ in. long, strongly furrowed, the lobes 

 short, acute : petals small, red, the blade 1 line long or more, erose at 

 summit, the appendage of the claw bifid: stamens 47: style 3-cleft: 

 capsule shorter than the calyx, linear, angiilar: seeds numerous. A 

 homely plant of the salt marshes along the seaboard. 



