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pubescent or subglabrous above, petioled; flowers white or rose-colored, 

 6-8" broad, numerous, in a crowded scorpioid spike ; calyx viscidly hairy, 

 the tube about equaling the ovary and the oblong acuminate segments ; petals 

 obovate, entire, rather shorter than the slightly unequal stamens and style ; 

 stigma subglobose; capsules -6-9" long, sessile, viscid-pubescent or hirsute, 

 tapering from near the base, somewhat striate, much curved ; seeds 1" in 

 length, linear-oblong, ascending, in a single row. — Washington Territory, 

 (Douglas and Nuttall.) Virginia and Lake ranges, Nevada ; 6,000 feet alti- 

 tude; August-November. (419.) 



CEnotheea alyssoides, H. & A. Annual, canescently puberulent, low, 

 branched from the base ; stems ascending ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenu- 

 ate into a petiole, denticulate or nearly entire, the upper ones becoming 

 linear; spike many-flowered, unilateral, scorpioid; calyx-tube shorter than 

 the ovary, about equaling the sepals and petals ; petals orbicular, entire, rose- 

 color or nearly white, a little shorter than the equal stamens and style ; stigma 

 capitate ; capsules linear, nearly 1' long, very slender, much contorted ; seeds 

 small, ¥ long, oblong, ascending, in one series, very minutely reticulate- 

 pitted. — About 6' high; basal leaves 1-2' long, the cauline much- smaller; 

 flowers often quite showy, petals 2-3" broad. California (Douglas) and Ne- 

 vada; Southern Utah, (Palmer, 1870.) Frequent from the West Humboldt 

 to the Toyabe Mountains and on the low ranges about Salt Lake; 4,500-6,000 

 feet altitude ; May-September. (420.) 



Var. (?) MiNUTiFLOEA. Stems ascending or decumbent ; the cauline 

 leaves often numerous and scarcely smaller than the lower ones ; flowers very 

 small, 1" in diameter, axillary the whole length of the stems, the spike 

 slightly circinate ; calyx-tube many times shorter than the ovary, about equal- 

 ing the segments ; petals white, emarginate, shorter than the calyx-lobes ; 

 stamens very short, the longer filaments equaling the anthers ; capsules i-1' 

 long ; seeds silvery white — It somewhat resembles but has none of the hir- 

 suteness of CE. micrantha, which has also broader and sessile leaves, yellow- 

 ish flowers, turning green, and an ovate dark-colored seed. Found in 

 Monitor VaUey, Nevada, and upon Black Rock Point and Stansbury Island, 

 Salt Lake ; 4,200-5,500 feet altitude ; June, July. (421.) 



(Enothera dentata, Cav. Annual, canescently puberulent or nearly 

 glabrous, low, branching from the base ; stems ascending or decumbent ; 

 leaves linear, very narrow, remotely denticulate, attenuate at base ; calyx- 



