Erythrcea. GEXTIA^^ACE^. 113 



Icels short or hardly any in the forks ; the lateral often as long as the flower, but S-bracteo- 

 late at summit : lobes of the rose-red corolla oval, very obtuse or retuse, in age merely 

 oblong, 2 or almost 3 lines long: seeds short-oval. — DC. 1. c. 60, as to California plant 

 only; Benth. PI. Hartw. 322 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 480. — Western part of California, and 

 south-east to the Mohave. 

 ' B. Douglasii, Gray. Slender, a span to a foot high, loosely and paniculately branched, 

 usually sparsely flowered : leaves from oblong to linear, mostly acute : flowers all on strict 

 and slender peduncles or pedicels : lobes of the pink corolla oblong, obtuse, at most 2 lines 

 long, nearly half the length of the tube: seeds globular. — Bot. Calif, i. 4sii. E. SuttaUU, 

 Watson, Bot. King, 270, partly ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 398. Cicendia exaltata, Griseb. in 

 Hook. Fl. ii. 69, 1. 157, wrongly described. — Oregon and California to Utah and Wyoming. 

 B. Nuttallii, "Watson. Like the preceding: lobes of the rather larger corolla more 

 ovate, acutisli, sometunes nearly 3 lines long: seeds fewer, and much larger (a third of a 

 line long), oblong. — Bot. liing, 276, t. 29, mainly. — Nevuda, Idaho, and Utah, Xuttall, H. 

 Entjdmann, Watson. 



++ -K- Flowers larger : corolla-lobes SJ to 6 lines long, but more or less shorter than the tube. : 

 anthers linear. 



= Corolla-lobes narrow, in age by involution becoming acumiuate : branching and inflorescence 

 fastigiate-cymose ; filaments aud style very slender. 



B. tricliantha, Griseb. A span or less high : leaves from oblong-oval to lanceolate : 

 flowers in dense cymes, those in the forks all sessile or nearly so : corolla-lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate becoming linear-lanceolate, 34 or 4 lines long : stigmas small : seeds oval-oblong. 

 — DC. 1. c. 60 (excl. var.) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 479. — Dry ground, W. California. 

 •-S. Beyrichii, Torr. & Gray. A span to a foot high, slender, at length fastigiately 

 much branched: leaves linear (ah inch or more long, a line or much less in width), the 

 uppermost nearly filiform : flowers very numerous and all pedicellate : corolla-lobes linear- 

 oblong and becoming linear, 5 lines long: seeds globular. — Torr. in ilarcy Eep. 291, t. 13. 

 E. tricliantha, var. anguslifolia, Griseb. in DC. 1. c. — Arkansas, Beyrich, Marcy. Texas, 

 Wright, Lindheimer. 



= = Corolla-lobes broader and obtuse, Uttle shorter than the tube : inflorescence loose : flowers 

 all pedicellate : seeds globular. 



B. calycosa, Buckley. Paniculately or somewhat cymosely branched, a span to 2 feet 

 high: leaves from narrowly oblong to lanceolate or linear: pedicels mostly as long as the 

 calyx or the whole flower : lobes of the corolla oval or oblong, 3J to o lines long ; the tube 

 usually equalled by the calyx. — Proc. Acad. Philad. 1862, 7. — W. Texas and New Mexico, 

 Wrigltt, Buckley, &c. (Adjacent ilex.) 



Var. nana. A span high, with leaves all linear and inflorescence corymbose-cymose : 

 approaching E. Beyrichii, but corolla-lobes only 3 or 4 lines long and broadly oblong. — 

 Stony hills, W. Texas, Wriylit (no. 1662), Woodhouse. 



Var. Arizonica. Stems or branches a foot or so long, lax : inflorescence racemosely 



paniculate or as if racemose : calyx-lobes mostly shorter than the tube of the corolla. — 

 S. Utah and Arizona, Wheeler, Palmer, &c. 



"B. venusta, Gray. A span or so high : leaves from ovate to oblong-lanceolate : flowers 

 somewhat cymose or paniculate, on short or sometimes long pedicels : lobes of the corolla 

 oval or obovate, becoming oblong, deep pink, 4 to 6 lines long, about the length of the yel- 

 lowish tube, wliich is equalled by the calyx. — Bot. Calif, i. 479. E. trichantha, Duraml in 

 Pacif. E. Rep. v. t. 9, not Griseb. E. chironioides, Torr. Bot. ilex. Bound. 156, t. 42, mainly, 

 excl. s™. — Dry hills, California, common from Pltunas Co. southward. 



3. SABBATIA, Adans. {Liberatus Sablati, an early Italian botanist.) — 

 Atlantic North American biennials or annuals; with mostly showy rose-colored or 

 white flowers (in summer and autumn), terminatmg the branches or in cymes. 

 Calyx in most species deeply parted. Corolla usually with a yellowish or dis- 

 colored eye. Style closed in early anthesis. and commonly turned to one ^ide 

 of the'flower (and sometimes spirally twisted), later erect and its branches or 

 stigmas diverging. Seeds very numerous and small, globidar, pitted. 



