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Conantlius multifloriis 



Annual, prostrate, branched from thie base, the purplish 

 branches several times dichotomous, about i dm, long (thus the 

 diameter of the plant-mat 2 dm), more or less strigose, lower in- 

 ternodes rather long, 2 or 3 cm., giving the lower part of the 

 stem a naked appearance: leaves crowded toward the ends of the 

 branches, linear or linear-spatulate, about 15 mm. long, i to 2 

 mm, wide, acute, coarsely hirsute with spreading hairs: flowers 

 solitary in the axils on pedicels barely 1 mm. long, like the 

 leaves crowded and numerous near the ends of the branches; 

 calyx 5-divided, 6 mm. long in fruit, the lobes linear, less than 

 I mm, wide, hispid with long hairs: corollas large, i cm, long, 

 15 mm, wide when expanded, the tubular funnelform tube yel- 

 lowish, pubescent with scattered spreading hairs, the rounded 

 obovate lobes pale violet-purple: stamens unequal, extending a 

 little above the middle of the corolla tube: style two-lobed, about 

 equal with the lower stamens: pod oblong, 3 mm. long; the pale 

 brown oblong seeds rugose. 



The type is no. 8286, collected May 18, 1906, in the Sierra 

 foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, California, in sand, in 

 company with no. 8280, the plant listed above as C. demissiis^ 

 but readily distinguished by its larger size, larger and paler 

 flowers, and single, merely lobed style. It must bear consider- 

 able resemblance to C. aretioides^ the type of the genus, but ac^ 

 cording to Watson that has "smooth waxy seeds." 



Tricardia watsoni Torr. Bot. King Rep. 258.//, 24. 1871. 



No. 8214, collected May 9, in Silver canyon in the White 

 mountains opposite Laws. Inyo county, growing on the floor of 

 the canyon in gravel and abundant at one place. It is a strange 

 looking plant, the enlarged calyx lobes in the fruiting stage 

 suggesting the Nyctaginaceae, The type was collected "on 

 foot-hills of Truckee Pass and the Trinity Mountains,, Western 

 Nevada." 



