232 ONAGRACEiE. Clarhia. 



each side : perfect stamens with a linear scale on each side at base, the alternate 

 stamens rudimentary and filiform : stigma-lobes equal, dilated : capsule 8 to 12 

 lines long, 8-angled, on a spreading pedicel 2 to 3 lines long : seed obliquely cubical, 

 minutely tuberculate, two thirds of a line long. — PL 2G0, t. 11. 



"Washington Territory, Oregon and Idaho ; not yet collected hi California. Frequent in culti- 

 vation, in several varieties, and often figured. 



2. C. Xantiana, Gray. Stem glabrous, about a foot high : leaves linear or 

 narrowly lanceolate, entire, asby-puberulent, as also the inflorescence : petals 2-lobed 

 with a subulate tooth in the sinus ; the claw short and broad, not hairy nor appen- 

 daged at base : stamens 8, all perfect, without scales at the base : stigma-lobes 

 broadly oval, short : capsule nearly sessile, 9 lines long. — Proc. Bost. Soc. Sat. 

 Hist. vii. 145. 



Near Fort Tejon, Xantus. 



3. C. elegans, Dougl. Glabrous or puberalent, \ to 6 feet high, simple or 

 branched : leaves broadly ovate to linear, repandly toothed : petals entire, rhom- 

 boidal ; the long slender claw without teeth : anthers all perfect ; filaments with a 

 densely hairy scale at each side of the broader base : stigmadobes equal : capsule 

 nearly sessile, 6 to 9 lines long, obtusely 4-angled, rather stout and often curved, 

 somewhat villous. — Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1575. C. imguicidata, Bindl. Bot. Beg. 

 under t. 1981. Phceostoma Douglasii, Spach, Monog. Onagr. 74. 



Valleys and hillsides, from Mendocino Co. to Los Angeles and the foot-hills of the Sierra 

 Nevada. Common in cultivation. 



4. C. rhomboidea, Dougl. Puberulent or nearly glabrous, 1 or 2 feet high : 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate to -ovate, 2 inches long, the upper narrower, all on slender 

 petioles, entire : petals entire, rhomboidal, with a short broad claw which is often 

 broadly toothed : anthers all perfect ; filaments with hairy scales at the base : stigma- 

 lobes short: capsules 8 to 12 lines long, 4-angled, nearly glabrous, on pedicels about 

 a line long. — Hook. Fl. i. 214; Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1981. C. gauroides, Don in 

 Sweet, Brit. PL Gard. 2 ser. t. 379. Opsiauthes gauroides, Lilja, Liunrea, xv. 261. 



Of wider range than the preceding, hut not frequent. San Diego (Cleveland) ; in the Sierra 

 Nevada northward to Washington Territory, and in the mountains eastward through Nevada to 

 the Wahsatch. 



10. EUCHARIDIUM:, Fischer & Meyer. 



Calyx- tube linear-elongated above the ovary. Stamens 4, opposite to the sepals, 

 not appendaged at base. Otherwise as Clarhia, to which it should probably be 

 referred. — ■ Only the following species. 



1. E. concinnum, Fisch. & Mey. Glabrous or puberulent, closely resembling 

 Clarhia rhomboidea in habit and foliage : calyx-tube nearly filiform, an inch long : 

 petals 3-lobed, without teeth upon the claw, 6 to 9 lines long : filaments filiform : 

 stigma-lobes unequal : capsules 8 to 12 lines long, sessile : seeds imbricated, papil- 

 lose, concave and margined on the upper side. — Ind. Sem. Petr. ii. 11; Lindl. 

 Bot. Beg. t. 1962 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3589. E. grandijiorum, Fisch. & Mey. 1. c. 

 vii. 40; C. A. Meyer, Sert. Petr. t. 13. 



In the Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara to Mendocino County, and especially about the Bay 

 of San Francisco. 



2. E. Breweri, Gray. A foot high : leaves narrowly lanceolate, an inch long 

 or more, attenuate to a short petiole : calyx-tube 12 to 18 lines long : petals large, 

 cuneate-obcordate, with a narrow subulate lobe in the deep sinus : filaments clavate : 

 stigmadobes linear : capsule stout, sessile, 15 to 18 lines long. — Proc. Am. Acad. 



. vi. 532. 



On the dry summit of Mount Oso, Stanislaus Co., Brewer. 



