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95. Polygala cornuta Kellogg, Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. 1: 62. 1855. 



Stems numerous from a Render woody root, shrubby, about 5 dm. long, sparsely incurved- 

 puberulous or nearly glabrous; leaves linear-elliptic to oval or ovate, 2-4 cm. long, 5-20 mm. 

 wide, obtuse or rounded, sometimes retuse, cuneate or cuneate-rounded at base, incurved- 

 puberulous along costa above and sometimes obscurely so beneath, ciliolate, thin or slightly 

 leathery, 1-nerved; peduncles 1.5-4 cm. long; racemes loose, 1-4 cm. long, 4-20-flowered; 

 bracts elliptic or subulate, deciduous, 1-5 mm. long; pedicels 2-4.5 mm. long; flowers yellowish 

 or greenish-white, the upper petals apparently sometimes rosy-tipped; upper sepal ovate, 

 ciliolate and densely puberulous, 3.8-4.2 mm. long; lower sepals similar, oval; wings oval- 

 obovate, 9.5-10.5 mm. long, 5.2-5.5 mm. wide, rounded, cuneate at base, densely puberulous 

 and ciliolate; keel densely ciliolate along claw, 10.5-12 mm. long, the glabrous beak porrect, 

 1.5-2 mm. long, with triangular flattened base and slender tip; capsule orbicular-ovate, nar- 

 rowed from near the middle, firm-walled, scarcely reticulate, ciliolate, with narrow reticulate 

 wing, 8-8.5 mm. long and wide; seed (excluding aril) obovoid-ellipsoid, pilose, 3.2-4 mm. long; 

 aril 3.5-4 mm. high, pilose, the subcorneous umbo suberect, straight or curved, conic or sub- 

 cylindric, 1.3-2.5 mm. high, the two lateral lobes roundish or triangular, crenulate, appressed. 



Type locality: Placerville, California. 



Distribution: Siskiyou and northern Humboldt counties to Fresno County, California. 



Illustration: Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 31 (2) 2 : pi. 18, f. 6-9. 



96. Polygala californica Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 

 N. Am. 1: 671. 1840. 



Polygala cucullata Benth. PI. Hartw. 299. 1849. 



Stems numerous, erect or spreading, shrubby, rather sparsely incurved-puberulous, 0.3-4 

 dm. high, bearing short racemes of cleistogamous flowers from near the base; leaves elliptic 

 or lance-elliptic to oval, 1-4.3 cm. long, 6-17 mm. wide, obtuse or rounded, rarely acute or 

 retuse, incurved-puberulous above along costa and margin, usually so beneath, thin, mem- 

 branous or papyraceous, 1-nerved and feather- veined, sometimes reticulate; racemes loose, 

 3-10-flowered, 1.5-4 cm. long; bracts linear, deciduous, 3 mm. long; pedicels 2.5-4.5 mm. long; 

 flowers rosy; sepals oblong to oblong-obovate, obtuse, subhyaline, ciliolate, 4.8-6.5 mm. long; 

 wings obovate or spatulate-obovate, emarginate and obscurely mucronulate, long-cuneate 

 at base, sparsely ciliolate on upper margin near base, 10-11.5 mm. long, 4.5-5.3 mm. wide; keel 

 ciliate near base of saccate portion, 12 mm. long, the triangular blunt or round-tipped porrect 

 crisped strongly papillose beak 2.S-3.2 mm. long; capsule orbicular or oval, thin-walled and 

 reticulate, sparsely ciliolate or subglabrous, 6-7.5 mm. long, 5-7.2 mm. wide; seed obovoid, 

 densely pilose, 3 mm. long (excluding aril) ; aril 2.8 mm. high, the short rounded corneous umbo 

 concealed by the two broad cellular-scarious thickish lobes, which form a short obscure beak 

 and conceal about half the seed. 



Typb locality: California. 



Distribution: Pacific Coast region from Josephine County, Oregon, to Monterey, California. 

 Illustrations: Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, pi. 12 (as P. nutkana); Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 

 31(2)2 : pi. 18, f. 5 (as P. nutkana). 



97. Polygala subspinosa S. Wats. Am. Nat. 7: 299. 1873. 



Much branched undershrub, many-stemmed, 5-13 cm. high, erect or ascending, pale green 

 or glaucous, densely and finely spreading-puberulous or rarely nearly or quite glabrous, the 

 branches indurate and spiny-tipped; leaves obovate, elliptic, or elliptic-ovate, 1-2.2 cm. long, 

 3-6 mm. wide, mucronulate at the obtuse or rounded apex, narrowed at base, sparsely ciliolate, 

 glabrous or very sparsely puberulous, coriaceous, reticulate- venose; racemes 6-9-flowered, 

 loose, 1.8-2.5 cm. long, the axis indurate and spiny-tipped; bracts lance-subulate, 2-4.5 mm. 

 long; pedicels glabrous or puberulous, 3-9 mm. long; flowers pink-purple and yellow; sepals 

 elliptic, hyaline, mucronulate, glabrous, 4—6 mm. long; wings obliquely obovate, mucronulate, 

 rounded, glabrous, 10-10.5 mm. long, 4.8-5.2 mm. wide; keel glabrous, 10.5 mm. long, the 

 elliptic blunt porrect beak 2.2 mm. long; capsule oval, reticulate, sparsely hispidulous on mar- 



