Stlj,ulicl,In. CAItVorilVIJ.ACK.E. 255 



Eng. Bot. t. 10.31 ; F.ll. Sk. i. 182. — Iiitr.HliucI in S. Carolina near Charleston and at 

 Camden, Cintis ; also nalurali/.td in California, Na|)a Co., Jipson, and Solano Co., liuu'itli : 

 and ocea.sionalh- found on l.alliLst in tlie Middle Atlantic StateH. (InlnMl. from the Old 

 World, where widely distributed.) 



P. depressum, Nitt. Smaller: .stems uumerou.s, 1 to 2 inches long : leaves oppiwito. nicit- 

 ulatc, ol.t list-, attenuate to shnder petioles : Kracts niueh shorter than the scarcelv carinato 

 sepals : pilals very narrow or Mil)tiliform : cap.sule spherical. — Nutt. in'lorr. & (Jniv, 1. v. 

 174; IJrew. & Wats. Hot. Calif, i. 71. — Sandhills, S. California, near San l)i«-f,r<), \,iit,ill, 

 Cleceliind, near San Hcriiardino, I.>inmin,, I'ndsh, also on Sta Harl.ara and Su». Catalina 

 Ids., liiaiidcijiv. ( Lower Calif., Onutl, Palmer.) 



18. LCEFLlNGIA, L. (Dedicated to J\'fer Lnfiufj, a Swt-di.sh traveller 

 and naturalist, born 1729.) — Small spreading glandular somewhat rigid annuals, 

 with subulate inconspicuous leaves and sessile solitary or more commonly fascicu- 

 late greenish Howers. — Spec. i. 35; Loefi. It. 1G2; DC. Prodr, iii. ;580. 



* Outer sepals provided with lateral teeth. 

 L. Texana, Hook. Branching from near the ba.se: branches 4 to 6 inches long: flowers 

 ciiiitly borne upon short secund and somewhat recurved branchlets: sepals straight or 

 slightly curved: stamens in the flowers examined 3 (5 ace. to Hooker and Cray): seeds 

 rather broadly obovate. — le. t. 285 (text with t. 27.'j) ; Brandegee. Zoe, i. 219. L. gt/uar- 

 rosa, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 674 ; Gray, Gen. HI. ii. 23, t. 106 (figs. 7 and 8 rejiresenting the 

 seed too narrow and with cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent a.s is the ca.se) ; 

 Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 31. — Central and Ea.steni 'IVxa-s, linimiitnud, \i'iii/fit, 

 Ua'l : northward to Nebraska, Webber (ace. to Britton). Differing slightly, but as it 

 appears constantly, from the following. 



L. squarrosa, Nitt. Smaller, 2 to 4 inches high : branchlets .scarcely or not at all .se- 

 iiiiiil : sc]ials pretty strongly recurved and s(|uarrose : stamens 3 (to .">?): seeds oblong or 

 elliptical in outline. —Torr. & (Jr.iy, Fl. i. 174 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 72 ; Wats. Hibl. 

 Index, 104 (excl. syn.) ; Brandegee, 1. c. — Sandy soil, California, from San Diego northward 

 to the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Co., Lemmon. (Lower Calif., Brandegee.) 

 ♦ * Sepals all entire. 



L. ptisilla, CrRRAX. Low and condensed, 2 to 3 inches in height : branches closely flowered, 

 not <listinctly secund: sepals lanceolate, acute and bristle-tipped : stamens (in flowers exam- 

 ined) 3. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. l.')2; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 220. — Tehachapi, California, 

 4,000 ft., Mr.t. Currnit. This very interesting species has the calyx of a Cerdiu, but is dis- 

 tinguished from that genus by the number of stamens, the absence of a style, and the ac- 

 cumbent position of the cotyledons, which in Cerdia appear to be constantly incumbent. 



19. STIPULIClDA, Michx. (Name from the Latin stipuld, stalk, bhide. 

 stipule, and ccedere, to cut, from its deeply divided stipules.) — Fl, i. L'G, t. C> ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 2o, t. 107. — A very small or perhaps monotypic genus, scarcely 

 ditfering in its technical characters from the Old World Poiycarpcea, but with a 

 distinct habit, somewhat that of an Eriogonum. 



S- setacea, .Mi< nx. l. <•. .\ span hijrh : root .simple: stems dichotomou.sly forked: radical 

 leaves spatulate, 2 t) 4 lines long, narrowed to a slender petiole: flowers small, fjuscicled 

 (usually 3 to 6 togethei) at the ends of the naked branches : bracts awn like from a lanceo 

 late more or less fimbriate-margined b.-vse, ami nearly ei|nalling the flowers. — Chapm. Fl. 

 47. Poh/rarpon stipuliciduni, Pers. Syn. i. Ill ; I'ursli, Fl. i. 'J(». — Sandy soil, North Caro- 

 lina to Florida. 



S. filiformis, Nash. More slender ami with more numerous branches: f.-iscides fewer 

 (I-.!)-tlow(red: bracts shorter. — Bull. Torr. Club. xxii. 148. — Dry s.-uidy soil, in " s«rnb " 

 ami pine woods, near Ku.stis. Flori<la, Xnsh. An apparently identical fornt w. -is collated on 

 the .Man.atee Kiver by A'l/'/c/. no. 61. It is doubtctl whether the differences between this and 

 the preceding will be found constant. 



