82 POLYGALE.S. 



branaceous, flattened contrary to the narrow partition, rounded and 

 notched at summit, dehiscent at the margin. 



1. P. Californica, Nutt. Stems many, slender, 2—8 in. high, from 

 a woody base, mostly simple : leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-elliptical, 

 % — 1 in. long: fl. rose-purple on bractless pedicels 1 — 3 lines long: outer 

 sepals 2% lines long, rounded, saccate at base; inner ones broadly spat- 

 ulate, J^ in. long or less: lateral petals linear-lanceolate, somewhat 

 ciliate, equalling the broad obtuse somewhat curved beak of the rounded 

 hood: fr. mostly from apetalous fl. near the root; capsule glabrous, 

 broadly ovate, % in. long, retuse narrowly margined: seed 2 lines long, 

 pubescent; caruncle wrinkled and bladdery, calyptriform, half the 

 length of the seed.— In the Coast Eange. 



