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10. POLYCARPON, Loefling. Low annuals, diffusely dichotomous, 

 with flat leaves, small scarious stipules and minute cymose flowers. 

 Sepals 5, carinate-concave. Petals 5, minute, hyaline. Stamens 3 — 5. 

 Ovary 1-oelled; style short, 3-oleft. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. 



1. P. tetbaphyllum, Linn. Branched from the base and depressed, 

 the branches 3 — 7 in. long: leaves % m - long, obovate, short-petiolate, 

 the lower pairs with a second rather smaller pair at right angles to them 

 so as to appear whorled: stipules triangular-lanceolate: cymes many- 

 flowered, dense, the small flowers short-pedicelled: sepals green or pur- 

 plish, scarious-margined: petals scarious, shorter than the sepals: cap- 

 sule about equalling the calyx: seeds yellowish brown, semiorbicular, 

 compressed, with a sharp murieulation disposed in irregular strise. — Nat- 

 uralized in Napa and Solano counties. BioUtti, Jepson. 



11. L(EFLINGIA, Linn. Low much branched rather rigid and 

 pungent-leaved annuals; the leaves with adnate and connate setaceous 

 stipules. Flowers small, sessile in the axils of the leaves and branches. 

 Sepals 5, rigid, carinate. Petals minute or 0. Stamens 3 — 5. Ovary 

 1-celled; style very short or 0. Capsule 3-valved, several-seeded. 



1. L. squarrosa, Nutt. The numerous prostrate or erect-spreading 

 branches 2 — 6 in. long; herbage glandular-pubescent: leaves and sepals 

 subulate-setaceous, rigid and recurved, the leaves 2 — 3 lines long, the 

 sepals somewhat shorter: capsule elongated, triquetrous, at length ex- 

 serted, oo -seeded. — Plains of the lower San Joaquin, and Sacramento. 



Obdeb xiii. FRANKENIACE>E. 



An order embracing scarcely more than the genus 



FRAUCA, Micheli. Herbs or undershrubs with opposite entire small 

 exstipulate leaves usually sessile and even united at base by a slight 

 membranous continuation of the blade. Fl. small, solitary and sessile 

 in the axils of the very numerous branches and branchlets, usually 

 5-merous and complete. Calyx tubular, furrowed; the lobes valvate and 

 induplicate in bud. Petals hypogynous, narrowed to a claw which bears 

 an appendage on its inner face. Style cleft into 2—4 filiform divisions; 

 ovary 1-celled. Capsule invested by the persistent calyx; the few seeds 

 attached to the margins of the 2 — 4 valves. 



1. F. grandifolia (Esch.). Somewhat woody at base, erect, much 

 branched and slender, %— 1 ft. high, glabrous or soft-pubescent, very 

 leafy: leaves obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, revolute, J£— }£ in. long, 

 of a dull green: calyx linear, }4 in. long, strongly furrowed, the lobes 

 short, acute : petals- small, red, the blade 1 line long or more, erose at 

 summit, the appendage of the claw bifid: stamens 4—7: style 3-cleft: 



capsule shorter than the calyx, linear, angular: seeds numerous. A 



homely plant of the salt marshes along the seaboard. 



