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filiform, much longer than the orary : ovules about 12. — Evtoca ? lutea, Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Z''i\ Hook. Ic. t. 354. Miltitzia lutea, A. DC 1. c. Emmenanthe j/anijkira, \Vat.ion, 

 Bot. King, 2.07, not Gray. — S. E. borders of Oregon (Tolmie), and W. Nevada to the bor- 

 ders of California, Anderson, Watson, Lemmon. Corolla nearly 3 lines long: the linear 

 appendages (like those of many Phaceliw) plainly discernible in this and the preceding, 

 but readily overlooked, slightl.y confluent below with the adnate base of the filaments. 

 Hypogynous disk conspicuous, saucer-shaped, much larger and more free than in the pre- 

 ceding. 

 B. glandulifera, Torr. Very slender, 3 or 4 inches high, diffusely branched, minutely 

 glandular-pubescent and viscid: leaves small (a quarter to half inch long), oblong or spat- 

 ulate, incisely few-toothed or the upper entire : flowers numerous in slender spikes or 

 racemes, mostly on very short pedicels : coroUa narrow-carapanulate, exceeding the hnear 

 calyx-lobes: style filiform: ovules 6 to 12. — Watson, Bot. King, I.e. — W. borders of 

 Nevada, Anderson, Watson. Corolla 2 lines long : the appendages not found. Probably a 

 mere form of the preceding. 



* * Corolla apparently nearly white, 5-cleft, short-campanulate, usually shorter than the calyx 

 and capsule, investing the base of the latter at maturity , its internal appendages not manifest : 

 leaves mostly entire : capsule 8-10-seeded. 



■ B. glaberrima, Torr. Wholly glabrous and glandless, diffuse or decumbent, a span or 

 less high, much branched : leaves thickish, somewhat succulent, oblong-spatulate or obovate, 

 entire, or the lower incisely 2-4-toothed (half an inch or more long), tapering into the pe- 

 tiole : flowers few or several, in short or at length elongated often geminate spikes or 

 racemes ; the short pedicels appressed : corolla not exceeding the spatulate or oblong thick 

 calyx-lobes : style not longer than the wholly glabrous ovary : ovules 8 or 10 : capsule 

 pointed with the subulate indurated base of the style. — Watson, Bot. King, 1. c. — Nevada, 

 in the lower Humboldt and Reese River Valleys, Watson. Also N. Arizona, Xfrnberry, being, 

 according to Watson, the Eutoca aretioides of the botany of the Ives Expedition. 

 B. pusilla, Gray. Pubescent, an inch or two high, at length diffusely branched: leaves 

 spatulate or oblong-lanceolate, entire or nearly so (2 to 5 inches long), tapering into a peti- 

 ole of equal length: peduncles slender, loosely and racemosely 3-7-flowered ; the earliest 

 ones scapifonn : pedicels spreading : corolla about half the length of the linear obscurely 

 spatulate calyx-lobes and of the ovoid very blunt capsule : style very sliort, at length 

 deciduous. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 87, & Bot. Calif, i. 51-5. — North-western Nevada, Watson, 

 Lemmon. Calyx in blossom one Hue, in fruit 2 lines long. 



§ 2. EilMENANTHE proper. Erect, with comparatively large and very broad 

 cream-colored corolla : divisions of the calyx ample and broader downward (ovate- 

 lanceolate) : style deciduous : placentEe conspicuously dilated in the axis : seeds 

 somewhat rugosely alveolate-reticulated. 



"■B. penduliflora, Benth. A span to a foot high, villous-pubescent and somewhat viscid : 

 leaves pinnatifid into numerous short and somewhat toothed or incised lobes : racemes 

 panicled, mostly short and loose, at base occasionally bracteate : pedicels filiform, as long 

 as the at length pendulous flowers : filaments slightly adnate to the very base of the 

 broadly campanulate corolla: ovules about 16. — Linn. Trans, xvii. 281. — California, not 

 rare from Lake Co. to San Diego, and east to S. Utah. (South to Guadalupe Island.) 

 Corolla 5 lines long, with short rounded lobes, and no trace of internal appendages. Sec-ds 

 oblong-oval, a line long. 



7. CONANTHUS, S. TVatson. EiUocaH Conanthus, A.TfC. (Name not 

 happily chosen, formed of -/.avog, cone, and uvdog, flower, referring to the elon- 

 gated funnelform corolla.) — A single species, which would be referred to Nama 

 except for the united styles ; the flowers apparently 2-3-morphous as to length 

 and insertion of style and stamens. 



. aretioides, "Watson. A small and depressed winter-annual, 2 or 3 inches high, 

 repeatedly forked from the very base, forming a matted tuft, hirsute-hispid, copiously 

 flowering through a long season : leaves spatulate-hnear : flowers comparatively large and 



