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-i- -h- Plants not maritime, erect at base and with ascending 



branches; capsules narrow. 



++ Radical leaves narrow and petiolate, the cauline broad, sessile; 



capsules sharply angled, much contorted. 



7. (E. hirtella, Greene. Stoutish, erect, simple, or with a few 

 ascending branches from the base, 6 — 10 in. high, short-hirsute: radical 

 leaves oblanceolate, denticulate, 1J^ in. long; cauline ovate, sessile, }4 i n - 

 long, coarsely toothed and more or less undulate or crisped : petals 1 line 

 long or more: capsules hirsute, narrow, attenuate upwards, once or 

 twice coiled: seeds pale, smooth, more or less regularly rhombic-ovate. 

 — Common in the hill country away from the sea, from Sonoma Co. and 

 Solano southward. 



■h- ++ Without radical leaves; branches many, slender, leafy; capsules 

 narrowly linear, slightly or not at all contorted. 



8. (E. strigulosa (F. & M.), Torr. & Gray. Erect-spreading, %—\ ft. 

 high, all but the older parts clothed with short white hairs: leaves % in. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, acutish, denticulate, subsessile: petals broadly 

 obovate, 1% lines long, yellow, turning deep red: anthers roundish, 

 basifixed: capsule about % in. long, sessile, straight or arcuate, not 

 contorted, scarcely attenuate at apex. — Sandy soil; common. 



9. (E. campestris, Greene. Branched from the base and bushy, 

 6 — 10 in. high and as broad, more or less hirsute-pubescent throughout: 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, 1 in. long, dentate: petals very broadly cuneate- 

 obovate, 4 — 5 lines long, turning brick-red: anthers linear-oblong, % line 

 long, fixed toward the middle and versatile: pods more than 1 in. long, 

 narrowly linear, slightly incurved. Var. crnciata, Greene. Petals half 

 as large, narrowly obovate or oblong, often emarginate. — Common on 

 the plains from Antioch southward. 



4. GODETIA, Spach. Erect simple or branching annuals. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or denticulate. Flowers mostly purple, showy, in leafy 

 spikes or racemes. Calyx-tube above the ovary obconic or short-funnel- 

 form, deciduous. Petals 4, broad, sessile, entire, emarginate or cleft, 

 diurnal and lasting for two days or more. Stamens 8, unequal, the 

 filaments opposite the petals shortest : anthers perfect, elongated, attached 

 by the base, erect or recurved. Ovary 4-celled, oo-ovuled; style short; 

 stigma-lobes short, linear or roundish. Capsule ovate to linear, 4-sided, 

 coriaceous. Seeds ascending or horizontal, in 1 or 2 rows, obliquely 

 angled, the upper part tuberculate-margined. 



* Flowers in a strict dense spike; capsule ovale or oblong. 



-h- Tips of the calyx-lobes not free in the bud; sides of capsule not 



g-costate: seeds in # rows in each cell. 



1. G. purpurea (Curtis), Wats. Stem erect, 6—15 in. high, puber- 



ulent: leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, obtusish, entire, glaucescent: 



