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retuse and with other scarcely definable irregularities of margin. — Banks 

 and hillsides, usually near streams. May — Deo. 



8. ECNANCS, Benlh. Annuals, either dwarf and depressed, or erect 

 and somewhat strict. Herbage glandular-hairy and somewhat viscid. 

 Flowers axillary and solitary. Calyx prismatic, 5-angled, 5-toothed. 

 Corolla from slender funnelform and strongly bilabiate to almost salver- 

 form and with slight inequality of lobes. Stamens 4, in unequal pairs. 

 Style filiform; stigma bilamellar or somewhat peltate-funnelform. Cap- 

 sule from cartilaginous to almost membranaceous, but dehiscent on one 

 side only, or from that to a little below the apex on the other side, 

 obtuse and shorter than the calyx, or acuminate and surpassing it. 

 Seeds many, often muriculate. 



* Subacaulescent dwarfs, with greatly elongated corolla-lube: capsule 

 short, cartilaginous, nearly or quite indehiscent. 



1. E. snbuniflorns (Hook. & Am.). Stem %—Vyi in. high, very 

 leafy : leaves rhombic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, % — 1 in. long, entire or 

 crenate-toothed: corolla dark red-purple, 1 — \% in. long,its slender tube 

 thrice the length of the calyx; throat oblong-urceolate; upper lip of limb 

 consisting of two broad erect lobes, the lower of a single small triangular 

 tooth (the lateral lobes obsolete): capsule % i n - l° n ?t semi-translucent, 

 obtuse, very gibbous, the acutely carinate posterior part twice as long 

 as the obtuse anterior part: seeds ovoid, acute, granular-muriculate. — 

 Damp hillsides and plains. March, April 



2. E. angiistatns, Greene. Nearly or quite acaulescent: leaves linear 

 and linear-spatulate, 1 in. long, entire: calyx with constricted throat and 

 ample foliaceous segments : corolla with filiform lube at least 4 times the 

 length of the funnelform throat: upper lip exceeding the lower: capsule 

 broadly ovate, acute, scarcely compressed: seeds few, large, favose-pitted. 

 — Napa and Sonoma counties: an early vernal species like the last. 



3. E. tricolor (Lindl.), Greene. Low, but with short decumbent 

 leafy branches 1 — 3 in. long: leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire, or remotely 

 serrate-toothed, 1 — 2 in. long: corolla 2 in. long, with short narrow tube, 

 ample throat and wide not very irregular limb, the 3-lobed lower lip about 

 as long as the 2-lobed upper, the whole corolla rose-purple, with mark- 

 ings of deep crimson and of yellow in the throat: capsule oblong-ovate, 

 obtuse, slightly gibbous, compressed, both edges acute: seeds obovoid. 

 — Plains of Solano and Contra Costa counties east of the Mt. Diablo 

 Eange. April, May. 



* * Less diminutive plants, and erect: capsules more elongated, 

 thinner, definitely dehiscent. 



4 E. Doug'Isisii, Benth. Bigidly erect, 6 — 10 in. high, the internodes 

 longer than the leaves; these ovate to obovate and spatulate-lanceolate: 



