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and equaling the pistil ; capsule thickened at base, sessile,. linear, divaricate, 

 often flexuous or deflexed ; seeds rather small, linear-lanceolate, smooth.— 

 Stems usually 1-2° high, erect or ascending, from more or less running root- 

 stocks. Var. NuTTALLii, Eng. Amer. Jour. Sci, n. s., 36. 334. Leaves 

 linear or lanceolate, attenuate at base into a short petiole, entire or more or 

 less dentate, (some of the specimens with villous calyx and coarsely sinuate- 

 dentate or subpinnatifid leaves, approaching Var. runcinata ;) petals nearly 

 white, 1' in length, about equaling the calyx-tube; capsule 1-1 j' long; stems 

 slender, simple or branching at base. — From Washington Territory to the 

 Saskatchewan and southward, east of the Sierras, to Northern Mexico and 

 Western Texas. Found in Smoky and Ruby Valleys, Nevada, but much 

 more frequent in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; June-August. (408.) 



(Enotheea deltoides, Torr. & Frdm. Fremont's Rep., (1845,) p. 315. 

 Annual, more or less canescently puberulent and villous ; Stem erect, low and 

 stout, 6-10' high, becoming woody with white membranous bark, sparingly 

 branched, the branches subdecumbent ; early flowering forms often nearly 

 acaulescent ; leaves tapering to a long petiole, very variable even on the same 

 plant, from broadly rhombic-ovate to lyrate linear-pinnatifid ; flowers large, 

 (2-3' in diameter,) sessile, axillary ; calyx-lobes villous, the tube nearly twice 

 longer than the entire petals ; stamens shorter than the petals ; anthers 

 elongated, fixed by the middle ; style exserted ; capsule thickened at base, 

 (often 2^') long,) terete, usually recurved, rigid ; seeds linear, smooth, vary- 

 ing in size, usually 11" in length. — Root straight and subfiisiform. This is 

 203 Anderson and 101 Torrey, from near Carson City, 1217 and 1590 

 Brewer, from California, and was also collected by Cooper near Fort Mohave 

 in Western Arizona. It has been mistaken for Var. trichocalyx of the last 

 species, but is very different. Foot-hills of the Truckee and Humboldt 

 Valleys, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude ; May, June. (409.) 



CEnotheea teiloba, Nutt. Biennial, acaulescent, nearly glabrous ; 

 leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, petioled, the segments occasionally toothed ; flow- 

 ers large, sessile ; calyx-tube very long, (2-5',) filiform, dilated above ; cap- 

 sules oval or obovate, cartilaginous or somewhat woody, reticulated, 4-winged, 

 apiculate or 4-toothed at the apex, tardily dehiscent loculicidally or sometimes 

 septicidally ; seeds horizontal, angled, densely tuberculate. — Leaves thin, 

 4^10' long; flowers 2-3' in diameter, yellowish, becoming rose-color; cap- 

 sules 1' in length, persistent and crowding at the base. From Arkansas to 



