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- -i Plants itot maritime, erect at base and with ascending 



branches; capsules narrow. 



H- Radical leaves narrow and peliolate, the cauline broad, sessile; 

 capsules sharply angled, much contorted. 



7. <E. hirtella, Greene. Stoutish, erect, simple, or with a few 

 ascending branches from the base, 6 10 in. high, short-hirsute: radical 

 leaves oblanceolate, denticulate, \% in. long; cauline ovate, sessile, ^ in. 

 long, coarsely toothed and more or less undulate or crisped: petals 1 line 

 long or more: capsules hirsute, narrow, attenuate upwards, once or 

 twice coiled: seeds pale, smooth, more or less regularly rhombic-ovate. 

 Common in the hill country away from the sea, from Sonoma Co. and 

 Solano southward. 



M--M- Without radical leaves; branches many, slender, leafy; capsules 

 narrowly linear, slightly or not at all contorted. 



8. <E. strigulosa (F. & M.), Torr. & Gray. Erect-spreading, %I ft. 

 high, all but the older parts clothed with short white hairs: leaves % in. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, acutish, denticulate, subsessile: petals broadly 

 obovate, \% lines long, yellow, turning deep red: anthers roundish, 

 basifixed: capsule about % in. long, sessile, straight or arcuate, not 

 contorted, scarcely attenuate at apex. Sandy soil; common. 



9. (E. campestris, Greene. Branched from the base and bushy, 

 6 10 in. high and as broad, more or less hirsute-pubescent throughout: 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, 1 in. long, dentate: petals very broadly cuneate- 

 obovate, 4~-5 lines long, turning brick-red: anthers linear-oblong, % line 

 long, fixed toward the middle and versatile: pods more than 1 in. long, 

 narrowly linear, slightly incurved. Var. cruciata, Greene. Petals half 

 as large, narrowly obovate or oblong, often emarginate. Common on 

 the plains from Antioch southward. 



4. GODETIA, Spach. Erect simple or branching annuals. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or denticulate. Flowers mostly purple, showy, in leafy 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx-tube above the ovary obconic or short-funnel- 

 form, deciduous. Petals 4, broad, sessile, entire, emarginate or cleft, 

 diurnal and lasting for two days or more. Stamens 8. unequal, the 

 filaments opposite the petals shortest : anthers perfect, elongated, attached 

 by the base, erect or recurved. Ovary 4-celled, oo-ovuled; style short; 

 stigma-lobes short, linear or roundish. Capsule ovate to linear, 4-sided, 

 coriaceous. Seeds ascending or horizontal, in 1 or 2 rows, obliquely 

 angled, the upper part tuberculate-margined. 



* Flowers in a strict dense spike; capsule ovate or oblong. 

 -i Tips of the calyx-lobes not free in the bud; sides of capsule not 



%-costate: seeds in 2 rows in each cell. 



1. G. purpurea (Curtis), Wats. Stem erect, 615 in. high, puber- 

 ulent: leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtusish, entire, glaucescent: 



