348 LIXACE.E. Linum. 



sometimes 10 lines long: capsule a third shorter than the calyx. — Bot. Mag. t. 3480; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 108, t. 143, f. 11-14 ; Plaucli. 1. c. vii. 474 ; Engelm. in Gray, PI. Wright, 

 i. 25 ; Trelease, 1. c. L. rujidum, var. Berendieri, Torr. & Gray, F\. i. 204. — From the Red 

 Kiver (Marci/ Exped.) througli Texas. A low spreading cespito.sely branched plant from 

 Galveston, Lindheinur, 22, J'dii Ilulf, Kio Brazos, Dnimmond, and S. W. Louisiana, Dmlson, 

 with the broad scarious margin of the sepals coarsely dentate, is var. Plotzii, Trelease, 

 1. c. 16. 



++ ++ Sepals persistent: leaves appressed, crowded and overlapping on the slender 

 branches : no stipular glands : capsule globose-ovoid, 2 lines long ; false septa entirely 

 membranaceous, 

 L. multicaule, Hook. Annual?, more or less puberulent : leaves very narrow, mostly 

 linear, awii-poiuted, less than 3 lines long, 1-nerved below, often revolutely concave, fre- 

 quently ciliate, the upper often scarious-margined : flowers mostly few, terminating the 

 branches : sepals ovate, abruptly bristle-pointed, more or less evidently 1-nerved, with broad 

 scarious often subentire margins : petals 4 or 5 lines long, deeper colored at base : capsule 

 about as long as the sepals. — Hook, in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 678; Planch. 1. c. vii. 185; 

 Engelm. in Gray, PI. Wright, i. 25; Trelease, 1. c. Z. /i«(/sonio/</es, Planch. 1. c. 186. — 

 Texas, from the centre eastward. 



# * * Ex.stipulate or with stipular glands : pedicels often elongated : flowers mostly very 

 small, yellow, white, or roseate: sepals usually glandular-ciliate, persisteiit : petals com- 

 monly with lateral teeth and 1 to 3 ventral appendages at base : filaments sometimes 

 2-toothed at base, otherwise unappendaged : carpels 2 or 3, without cartilaginous inser- 

 tions ; styles distinct ; stigmas small, oblique or subcapitate : capsule very small (scarcely 

 a line long), separating into twice as many valves as there are carpels, with firm septa 

 long-ciliate at base ; seeds mostly plump, small : mostly forking slender annuals, of the 

 Pacific Coast. — § Uesperolinon. 



■i- Carpels 2 : false septa complete : petals yellow, not appendaged. 

 L. digynum, Gray. A span or less high, glabrous, somewhat glaucous : stems slender, 

 striate, mostly simple below, several times corymbosely forked above, without stipular 

 glands: leaves usually opposite, elliptic-spatulate, the larger 5 lines long, 1- or obscurely 

 3-nerved, the lower entire and obtuse, the upper serrate, acute or mucronate : flowers sub- 

 racemose or loosely corymbed, short-pedicelled : sepals very unequal, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 glandular-serrulate or lacerate, 1- to somewhat obscurely 3-nerved at base : petals 1^ lines 

 long: capsule ovoid, slightly retuse at apex, a little shorter than the calyx. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. vii. 334; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 89; Trelease, 1. c. 17. — Washington to the 

 mountains of Central California. A small plant of the aspect of L. catharticum. 

 •i— -i— Carpels 3 : false septa incomplete : petals mostly appendaged. 

 ++ Leaves glandular-denticulate : no stipular glands : false septa narrow. 

 L. drymarioides, Ccrran. A span or two high, sparingly white-villous : stems rather 

 coarse at base, repeatedly dichotomous, with long slender internodes : leaves opposite or 

 the lowest subverticillate, broadly ovate, the larger 5 lines long, ratlier loo.sely veined, acute 

 or acuminate, with short crowded marginal glands : flowers roseate, scattered along the 

 branches, mostly short-pedicelled : sepals lanceolate, acute or mucronate, miimtely serrulate 

 and occasionally glandular-ciliate, 1-nerved: petals minute, 2-toothed and appendaged at 

 base, the median appendage rounded and glabrous or sometimes wanting : capsule ovoid, 

 acute, as long as the calyx. — Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 152 ; Trelease, 1. c. — Lake County, 

 California, Mrs. Curvan. 

 L. adenoph^Uum, Gray. A span to a foot high, glabrate or somewhat villous, espe- 

 cially just above the nodes : stems slender, repeatedly forked, striate : leaves alternate or 

 the lowest opposite or in threes, remote, very narrowly oblong, less than an inch long, 

 folded along the midrib, obtuse, somewhat cordate, 1-nerved, clo.sely and conspicuously 

 glandular-denticulate : flowers yellow, terminating the branches, slender-pedicelled : sp]).ils 

 lanceolate, acute, usually minutely glandular-denticulate, 1-nerved : petals 2 or 3 lines 

 long, the broad confluent appendages somewhat pubescent : filaments abruptly dilated and 

 obtusely 2-toothed at base : capsule ovoid, acute, as long as the calyx. — Proc. Am. Acad. 



