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the spreading filiform pedicels longer tlian the fruiting calyx : corolla hght blue or nearly 

 white, 4 to 6 lines in diameter: calyx-lobes linear or lanceolate, in fruit nearly twice the 

 length of the capsule (this only a line and a half long). — Fl. i. 140; Gray, Man. I.e. 

 (Pluk. t. 245, fig. 5.) Polemonium dubium, L. Eutoca parclflora, 11. Br. In lliehards. App. 

 Frankl. Jotirn. 36; Benth. I.e. Cosmantltus parvijiorus, A. DC. 1. c. FlmaJla pusilia, Buck- 

 ley, 1. e., c.x char. — Shaded places, Pennsylvania and Oliio to Carolina, ilissouri, and Texas : 

 the south-western and also Virginian forms passing into 

 ■*■• Var. llirstita, Gray. More hirsute and the stems less slender, apparently growing 

 in more open or dry soil : corolla larger, 5 to 7 hues in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 

 P. hirsiita, Xutt. 1. c. 191. — Prairies and barrens, south-western part of Missouri to eastern 

 Texas. Also similar forms from Giles Co., Virginia, and Stone Mountain, Georgia, 

 Canby. A\'ell developed capsule 2 lines long. Ovules only 4 in some flowers, 8 in others. 



* * Ovules {and commonly the seeds) about 8 on each placenta: plants stouter, with le-^* divided 

 leaves : vestiges of appendages to the corolla sometimes manifest, in the form of very narrow 

 lamellse approximate in pairs between the stamens. 



P. patuliflora, Gray. Eather softly cinereous-hirsute or pubescent, and the inflorescence 

 somewhat glandular, branched from the base, a span to a foot high, erect or diffuse : leaves 

 obovate or oblong (an inch or two long) ; the lowest lyrate-pinnatifid ; the upper commonly 

 only pinnatiiid-incised, sessile : racemes lax, at length elongated : pedicels spreading or 

 nodding, especially in fruit, 4 to 7 lines or more long : corolla deep blue with yellow base, 

 from half to three quarters inch in diameter ; the lobes somewhat erose-denticulate : calyx- 

 lobes lax or spreading, linear or somewhat lanceolate, occasionally becoming spatulate or 

 obovate, sometimes twice the length of the rather thin-walled capsule. — Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 321. Euloca patuliflora, Engelra. &, Gray, PI. Lindh. i. 4-5. P/iacelia hispida, Buckley in 

 Proc. Acad. Philad. 1801, 403, — Low prairies and thickets, Texas along and near the 

 coast, Berlandier, Lindlithiur, Wriglit, Buckley, &.Q. Capsule ii lines long : placentae at 

 length deciduous : seeds apparently as in the next. 



P. strictiflora, Gray, 1. c. Shorter and stouter than the preceding, more cinereous-hir- 

 sute : leaves rather more pinnatifid (an inch or so long) : racemes in fruit strict and mostly 

 dense, with pedicels erect and not longer than the capsule : corolla similar or rather larger : 

 caly-x-lobes usually becoming spatulate: capsule firm-coriaceous (3 lines long): seeds 

 round-oval, minutely alveolate-reticulated and coarsely more or less tuberculate-rugose ! — 

 Eiitoca strictiflora, Engelm. & Gray, 1. c. — Sand-hiUs, San Felipe and Austin, Texas, Drum- 

 mond, Linditeimer, E. Hall. Also Mississippi, .Spilhnan. Perhaps a varietv of the last, 

 growing in more exposed soil. Capsule of firmer te.xture ; the placentse inclined to be 

 adnate. In the seeds alone there is some approach to the character of the Microjenetes 

 section. 



§ 4. Gyjinobythus, Gray. Ovules and seeds very numerous on the dilated 

 placentie, descending or nearly horizontal ; the testa favose-pitted : appendage? of 

 the rotate-campanulate corolla wholly absent : capsule ovate and pointed : style 

 2-parted : very glandular and viscid Californian annuals, with ovate dentate leaves, 

 simple or sometimes geminate loose racemes, and very slender filaments (usually 

 a little bearded at base) about the length of the corolla. — Proc. Am. Acid. 

 X. 321. Oosmanthus § Gymnohythus, A.DC. 



P. VlSCida, Torr. A foot or two high, branching, hirsute at base, very glandular above : 

 leaves ovate or obscurely cordate, doubly or inciseh" and irregularly dentate (an inch or 

 two long) : corolla deep blue with purple or whitish centre, from half to nearly an inch in 

 diameter. — Bot. ilex. Bound. 143 ; Gray, 1. c. & Bot. Calif, i. 513. Eutoca i-iscida, Benth. 

 in Bot. Reg. t, 1808; Bot. Mag. t. 3572. Cosmanthus viscidus, A.DC, 1. c. 2?0, — Open s.iil, 

 along the coast of California, from Santa Barbara southward. Calyx-lobes linear or be- 

 coming obscurely spatulate, about the length of the abruptly cuspidate-pointed capsule ; 

 the firm placentae of which persist on the valves. 



Var. albiflora, Gray, 1. c, differs only in its white corolla. — Eutoca albiflora, Nutt. 

 PI. Gamb. 158. — Same range. 



P. grandiflora, Gray, I. c. Very like the preceding, or disponed to be more hispid : 

 corolla light blue or sometimes white, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter. — Eutoca 



