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Emmenanthe parvifloea, Gray. Pac. R. R. Surv., ( Willimnson^s Rep.,) 

 6. 84, t. 15. Dwarf, much branched, depressed, minutely hairy and glandu- 

 lar ; leaves petioled, subpinnately-parted, the 5-9 lobes entire, oblong or 

 obovate, 1-2" long; flowers crowded, very shortly pedicelled ; sepals linear, 

 obtuse, from iV becoming 3" long; corolla yellow, rather narrow-campanu- 

 late, nearly 2" long, persistent at the base of the capsule, the lobes short- 

 ovate, the narrow 5-lobed disk adnata to its base; ovary ovoid, densely 

 hairy, 2-celled, very many-ovuled ; style not exceeding the ovary, subpersist- 

 ent; capsule 3" long, acutish, 20-40-seeded ; seeds oblong, finely reticu- 

 lated. — Shore of Klamath Lake, Oregon, (Newberry ;) Santa Barbara, CaH- 

 fornia, (350 Torrey;) near Carson City, Nevada, (81 Anderson.) The 

 present specimens have much larger leaves, 1-2' long; stamens unequal; 

 ovary 12-ovuled ; style exceeding the ovary, divaricately bifurcate at the 

 summit ; habit and foliage almost precisely that of Phacelia gymnoclada. 

 Foot-hills near Truckee Pass, Nevada ; May. (884.) 



Emmenanthe glandulipeea, Torr. About 3' high, very slender, dif- 

 fusely branching from the base, glandular-pubescent ; leaves 3-6" long, oblong, 

 cuneate at the base, the radical and lower sparingly and obtusely i,oothed, 

 the cauhne entire; sepals 1-1 i" long, ligulate ; corolla yellow, 2" long, tubu- 

 lar-campanulate ; disk very obscure ; stamens equal, as long as the tube ; 

 style equaling the oblong obtuse ovary, the divisions, recurved ; ovules 6-12 ; 

 capsule oviform, 1" long, 2-3-seeded ; seeds f" long, transversely rugose- 

 pitted. — Virginia Mountains, Nevada, above Valley Wells ; 5,000 feet alti- 

 tude; July. (885.) 



Emmenanthe glabeeeima, Torr. Decumbent, difiusely branched from 

 the base, glabrous throughout, stems becoming 10' long; leaves 1-1' long, 

 obovate or oblong-spatulate, attenuate into a rather short petiole, entire or 

 coarsely 2-4-toothed, rather thick and fleshy, the upper ones approximate in 

 pairs and nearly opposite ; racemes lateral and terminal, often cymosely 

 branching, few-many-flowered; pedicels erect, shorter than the narrow-ob- 

 long obtuse sepals; corolla bright-yellow, campanulate, 1-1 i" long, but lit- 

 tle exceeding the calyx, cleft below the middle, the lobes obovate and obtuse ; 

 disk prominent ; stamens equal ; style equaling the ovary, united to above 

 the middle, the branches erect or recurved ; ovary glabrous, 8-10-ovuled ; 

 capsule oblong, abruptly acuminate with the base of the persistent style, 2" 

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