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smaller entire petals, but pods and seeds like the foregoing j and CE. pinna- 

 TfFiDA, with petals as in (E. trichocalyx, and similar pods, but with striate 

 and reticulated seeds, — all handsome white-flowered species of Western plains 

 and the Rocky Mountains, — are beginning to be cultivated.) 

 » » * Yellow-flowered, diornal, sometimes called Sundrops, the blos- 

 soms opening in bright sunshine: petals mostly obcordate: stems kafj/: 

 leaves obscurely toothied or entire. Wild species of the country, all but the 

 last occasionally cultivated, y, 



■I- Pod short-oblong or obovate, 4-mng-angled. 



CB. glatlca. Wild from Virginia and Kentucky near and in the moun- 

 tains S. : l°-2° high, smooth, pale and glaucous, leafy to the top ; leaves ovate 

 or lance-ovate ; corolla 2' or more in diameter. 



H- H- Pod club-sliaped, somewhat i-wing-angled above, and 4 intervening ribs. 



(E. fruticbsa. Wild in open places : not shrubby, as the name would 

 imply, hairy or nearly smooth, with oblong or lanceolate leaves, somewhat 

 corymbed flowers l^'-2' in diameter, and short-stalked pods. 



(E. line^is. Wild from Long Island S. near the coast : pale or sotaewhat 

 hoary with minute pubescence, with slender and spreading often bushy-branched 

 stems l'-2' long, linear or lance-linear leaves, and somewhat corymbed flowers, 

 corolla I'-l^' across, and hoary pods tapering into a slender stalk. — A spread- 

 ing form is cultivated, blooming very freely through the summer. 



Qi. ptliuila. In fiields, &c. : nearly smooth, 5' -12' high, with mostly 

 simple erect or ascending stem, oblanccolate leaves, and scattered flowers, the 

 corolla less than I' across, and pods short-stalked or sessile. 



» • » » Red-purple-el., diurnal, leafy-stemmed : pods club-sltaped. ® ® 



CE. r6sea, from Mexico. Minutely downy, with slender spreacMng stems 

 6' -24' high, ovate or lance-oblong leaves, the lowdf sometimes rather pin- 

 natifid, and flowers 1' across in leafy racemes. 



§2. GooiTiA. Stigma with i linear or short and broad lobes: tube of the calyx 

 beyond the linear or spindle-sliaped ovary invei-sely conical or funnel-ahaped : 

 leafy-stemmed : flowers open by day, scentless : petals broad and fan-shaped 

 or wedge-shaped, the truncate summit generally eroded, lilac-purple, rose- 

 color, or sometimes white : anthers erect on short (the alternate ones on very 

 short) and broadish fllaments, curving after opening. All W. American, 

 abounding in Oregon and California, several m the gardens, the following 

 most common. ® 

 (E. purpiirea. Very leafy to the top, rather stout, 6' - 10' high, at length 

 with many short branches; leaves pale, lance-oblong, entire; corolla I'-l^' 

 across, purple, with a d*k eye ; short and broad lobes of stigma dark-colored ; 

 pods short and thick, closely sessile, r.itljer conical. 



CE. rubiciinda. Taller, l°-2° high, and linear-lanceolate leaves rather 

 scattered along the slender branches ; corolla 2' or more across, lilac-purple 

 with saffron-colored eye (also pale or rose-colored vaneties) ; lobes of stigma 

 oblong, pale ; pods thickish, cylindrical, sessile. . , , , , , 



CErLflldleyi. Erect or spreading, 8' -16' high, with slender branches, 

 narrow lanceolate leaves ; corolla about 2' across, lilac-purple, with a deeper red- 

 purple spot on the middle of each petal ; lobes of the stigma hnear and pale ; 

 pods slender, linear, somewhat tapering at the ends. , ,. 



CE. amOBna. Slender, 6'- 18' high, with lance-oblong or lance-linear 

 leaves, and corolla 2' - 3' across, rose-color or almost white, with usually a deeper 

 reddish eye ; lobes of stigma linear ; pods hnear. 



8. JUSSIJEA. {JUamed. for Bernard, the elder de Jiissieu.) Leaves entire. 



Flowers yellow, all summer. 



J deedrrens. Wet grSunds, Virg. to 111. and S. Erect stems and slen- 

 der branches margined or winged in lines proceeding from the bases of the 

 lanceolate leaves, smooth throughout ; flowers sessile or short-stalked with 4 

 lobes of calyx nearly as long as the petals, and oblong-club-snaped 4-angled 

 pod. ® 2i 



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