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-)—-)—•»- Scapose, i.e. peduncles scape-like: leaves 3-5-nerved, sessile. 

 M. primuloides, Benth. Perennial by filiform stolons : leaves all radical in a rosulate 

 tuft, or crowded on an upright stem of 1 to 3 inches in height, soft-villous when young, 

 glabrate with age, from obovate to oblanceolate, sparsely and sharply serrate or nearly 

 entire, from 5 to 16 lines long: filiform and often solitary pedicels (1 to 4 inches long) and 

 cylindraceous calyx glabrous : corolla golden-yellow, f unnelform, a quarter to three-fourths 

 inch long. — Scroph. Ind. 1. c, & DC. 1. c. ; Kegel, Gartenfl. 1872, t. 739 ; Gray, 1. c. — 

 Wet soil, through the Sierra Nevada, California, at 6-10,000 feet, extending to the Blue 

 Mountains of Oregon. Like the other species varies greatly in size of flower as well as in 

 stature. 



§ 4. MiMULOiDES, Gray. Annual, with corolla of Eamimulus, capsule with 

 the divided placentee of Eunanus, but the calyx campanulate and 5-cleft ; its tube 

 not prismatic nor even carinate-angled, but almost nerveless ; its lobes plane : 

 stigma bilamellar. — Herpestis § Mimuloides, Benth. 



M. pilosus, Watson. A span to a foot high, at length much branched, leafy, soft-vil- 

 lous and slightly viscid, rarely glabrate, flowering from near the base : leaves lanceolate or 

 narrowly oblong, sessile, entire, obscurely 3-nerved at base ; the lower surpassing and the 

 upper hardly equalling the pedicels : calyx oblique at orifice ; the tube somewhat 5-sulcate 

 below the sinuses ; the posterior tooth equalling and the others shorter than the tube ; all 

 oblong.or ovate, rather shorter than the bright yellow (3 or 4 lines long) rather obscurely 

 bilabiate corolla : lobes of the latter nearly equal, usually a pair of brown-purple spots on 

 the lower: capsule oblong-ovate, acute. — Bot. ffing, 2^5; Gray, 1. c. M. exilis, DUrand 

 in Pacif. R. Rep. v. 12, t. 12. Herpestis (Mimuhides) pilosa, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 ii. 57, & DC. 1. c. 394. — Gravelly soil along streams, nearly throughout California, and 

 along the borders of Nevada to Arizona. ■ 



14. STEMODIA, L. (Name shortened by Linnaeus from P. Browne's 

 Stemodiacra, meaning stamens with two tips, in reference to the disjoined stipi- 

 tate anther-cells.) — Chiefly tropical species, herbaceous or slightly shrubby, one 

 reaching our borders. 



S. durantifolia, Swartz. Annual with indurated base, or sometimes perennial, viscid- 

 • pubescent : leaves either opposite or 3-4-nate, from oblong- to linear-lanceolate, serrate or 

 denticulate, narrowed below and with somewhat dilated partly clasping base : inflorescence 

 spiciform, leafy below: calyx 2-bracteolate : corolla purplish, quarter inch long. — Obs. 

 t. 240; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 383. Capraria durantifolia, L. Stemodia verlicillaris, Link; 

 Reichenb. Ic. Exot. ii. t. 149. — Wet grounds, S. Arizona. (Trop. Am.) 



15. C0N6BEA, Aublet. (Unexplained name.) — Low or spreading an- 

 nuals, all American ; with opposite leaves, and small flowers on axillary pedicels, 

 2-bracteolate under the calyx. — Our species belong to 



§ 1. Leucospora. Leaves pinnately 3-7-parted into cuneate-linear divisions : 

 anther-cellg completely disjoined but contiguous: seeds striate-costate. — Leuco- 

 spora, Nutt., with Schistophragma, Benth. in Endl. Gen. & DC. Prodr. x. 392. 



C. multiflda, Benth. 1. c. A span high, diffusely branched, minutely viscid-pubescent : 

 pedicels as long as the greenish-white and purplish corolla : sepals very slender : capsule 

 ovate: seeds small, white, longitudinally costate. — Capraria multijida, Michx. Fl. ii. 22, 

 t. 35. Stemodia multijida, Spreng. Syst. ii. 811. Leucospora multijida, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. 

 Philad. vii. 87. Sutera multijida, Walp. Rep. iii. 271. — Along streams and shores, Ohio to 

 Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas : also adventive below Philadelphia. 



C. intermedia, Gray. More viscid-pubescent : pedicels shorter than the calyx : sepals 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate; the posterior one rather longer: corolla larger (3 lines long): 

 capsule ovoid-lanceolate: seeds larger, spirally costate. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 117. — New 

 Mexico and Arizona, Wright, Rothrock. 



