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* Outer sepals provided with lateral teeta. 
L. Texana, Hook. Branching from near the base: branches 4-6 
inches long: flowers chiefly borne upon short secund and somewhat 
recurved branchlets: sepals straight or slightly curved: stamens in 
the flowers examined 3 (5 according to Hook. and Gray): seeds 
rather broadly obovate. — Icon. t. 285 (text with t. 275). Brandegee, 
Zoe, i. 219. L. squarrosa, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 674; Gray, Gen. ii. 23, 
t. 106 (Figs. 7 and 8 represent the seed too narrow and with cotyle- 
dons incumbent instead of accumbent as is the case) ; Coult. Man. 0 
S. W. Tex. 31.— Central and Eastern Texas, Drummond, Wright, 
Hall; differing slightly, but as it appears constantly, from the 
following. 
L. squarrosa, Nutr. Smaller, 2-4 inches high: branchlets 
scarcely or not at all secund: sepals pretty strongly recurved au 
squarrose: stamens 3 (-5?): seeds oblong or elliptical in outline. — 
Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 174; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif. i. 72; Wats 
Bibl. Index, 104 (excl. syn.); Brandegee, 1. c. 219.— Sandy soil, 
California, San Diego northward to Sierra Co., Lemmon. 
* * Sepals all entire. 
L. pusilla, Curran. Low and condensed, 2-3 inches in height; 
branches closely flowered, not distinctly secund: sepals lanceolate, 
acute and bristle-tipped: stamens (in flowers examined) 3.— Bull. 
Calif. Acad. i. 152; Brandegee, Zoe, i. 220. — Tehachapi, California, 
4,000 ft., Mrs. Curran. — This very interesting species has the calyx 
of a Cerdia, but is distinguished from that genus by the number of 
stamens, the absence of a style, and the accumbent position of the 
cotyledons, which in Cerdia appear to be constantly incumbent. — 
18. STIPULICIDA, Michx. (Name from the Latin stipwlé 
stalk, blade, stipule, and cedere, to cut, from its deeply divided 
stipules.) — A monotype, scarcely differing in its technical ea 
acters from the Old World Polycarpea, but with a very distinct 
habit, somewhat that of an Eryogonum. — FI. i. 26, t. 6; Gray, Gen. 
ii. 25, t. 107. 
S. setacea, Micrx. |.c. A span high: root simple: the stems 
dichotomously forked: radical leaves spatulate, 2-4 lines long, atl 
rowed to a slender petiole: flowers small, fascicled at the ends of 
the naked branches. — Chapm. Fl. 47. Polycarpon stipulicidum, 
Pers. Syn. i. 111; Pursh, Fl. 90.— Sandy soil, North Carolina to 
lorida. 
