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Corolla with globular tube, and 4 5-lobed limb shorter than the calyx. 

 Stamens on the tube of the corolla; filaments short, subulate. Capsule 

 circumscissile. 



1. C. minimus, L. Stems ascending, 26 in. long: leaves usually 

 obovate or spatulate-oblong, 2 3 lines long; fl. nearly or quite sessile, 

 usually 4-merous: calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, as long as the capsule. 

 Obscure little herbs of low plains. May. 



6. GLAUX, Dodoens. Small erect succulent seaside herb, with 

 leaves mostly opposite, and small flowers sessile in the axils. Calyx 

 campanulate, corolla-like and white or pinkish, 5-cleft. Corolla 0. Sta- 

 mens 5, hypogynous. Capsule globose, 5-valved from the summit. 



1. G. maritima, L. Perennial, glauc'escent, 36 in. high, leaves ob- 

 long, % i n - l n g more or less, minutely dotted. Frequent both along 

 the seaboard and in subsaline soils in the interior. 



7. SAMOLUS, Pliny. Glabrous perennial herbs, wiih alternate 

 leaves, and small white flowers in a terminal raceme, or racemose pani- 

 cle. Ovary at base connate with the base of the calyx. Corolla 

 subcampanulate. Stamens 5, on the tube of the corolla; filaments short; 

 anthers cordate. Staminodia 5, in the sinuses of the corolla. 



1. S. Valerandi, J. Bauh., var. Americanns, Gray. Slender, 310 

 in. high, branching and somewhat racemose-paniculate : leaves obovate, 

 thin, narrowed to a petiole : pedicels of the small flowers not bracted at 

 base, but bracteolate near the middle : calyx-lobes ovate, shorter than 

 the corolla. Not rare among rushes and sedges, in the Suisun Bay 

 marshes. Aug. Oct. 



OKDEBLXVI. L E A C E > . 



Important family of trees; represented in our district by two very 

 dissimilar species of Ash. 



1. FRAXIXUS, Vergil Trees, with unequally pinnate leaves, and 

 very many small flowers in crowded panicles, developed before the leaves 

 in spring, and from separate buds: dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 4- 

 cleft or -toothed, or obsolete. Corolla of 24 petals distinct or united 

 at base. Stamens 2 4, hypogynous. Ovary 2-celled; a pair of ovules 

 pendulous in each cell. Fruit a samara, winged from the summit. 



1. F. dipetala, Hook. & Arn. Tree small: leaves glabrous; leaflets 

 59, oval or oblong, serrate, mostly petiolulate, 1 2 in. long, in age 

 coriaceous: calyx usually 4-toothed, sometimes almost entire: petals 2, 

 white, obovate-oblong, with short claw: fr. narrowly spatulate-oblong, 

 mostly retuse, 1 in. long, the base merely sharp-edged, or else the wings 

 continuing to the base. Near Niles, Livermore, etc. 



