276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
of the capsule.—Gen. no. 376; Seringe in DC. Prodr. i. 414; 
Grenier, Flora, 1840, pt. 1, 266; Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. v.-v). 
t. 228-236; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 148; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenf. iii. 1 b, 80. 
§ 1. SrrepHopon, Seringe, 1. c. Styles 3-5: teeth of the cap- 
sule finally circinate-revolute from the tip. — Our species have pubes- 
cent leaves. 
C. Texanum, Brirron. Annual, viscid: stems several, slender, 
nearly erect, leafy below, nearly naked and dichotomous above : leaves 
oblanceolate or spatulate, 6 lines to 2 inches in length, very pubescent 
or subcinereous on both surfaces: flowers rather small: petals bifid : 
styles 3-4 (-5?): capsule 14-2 times the length of the calyx. — Bull. 
Torr. Club, xv. 97.— Hills, Blanco, Texas, Wright; New Mexico 
on the Mongollons, Greene ; Arizona, Santa Cataline Mts., Lemmon. 
(Mex., Palmer ; Lower Calif., Brandegee.) 
C. maximum, L. Stoloniferous perennial with stems simple or 
nearly so, erect or decumbent, becoming a foot or more in height: 
leaves linear or lanceolate, attenuate : flowers very large for the genus 
1 inch in diameter, borne on erect pedicels in simple or branched 
cymes: sepals oblong or narrowly ovate, obtuse, 3-4 lines long: petals 
obovate, much exceeding the calyx, deeply notched at the apex: capsule 
symmetrical, much exserted at maturity. —Spec. 439; Ledeb. Toon. 
Fl. Ross. t. 242; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. i. 399 ; Seem. Bot. Herald, 
51. ©. grande, Greene, Pitt. ii. 229. — Alaska. (Siberia.) Asiatte 
specimens of this species, identified at the St. Petersburg Gardens, 
show that the capsule becomes cylindric and much longer than 
figured by Ledebour. f : 
§ 2. OrtHopon, Seringe. Styles. normally 5: teeth of capsu 
“erect or spreading; the edges sometimes slightly reflexed. — DC. 
Prodr. i. 415.— Our species have pubescent leaves. 
* Flowers comparatively small: petals 1-1} times as long as the sepals. 
+ Pods 1-1} times as long as the calyx: introduced or doubtfully indigenous 
weeds. 
C. viscosum, L. (Movusr-rar Carcxweep.) Annual, viscid pu 
bescent, 3 inches to a span high: leaves oval or elliptic-oblong, sah 
obtuse; the lowest narrowed below to a short margined petiole + 
flowers small, at first densely clustered at the ends of the branches 
becoming laxer in fruit, but even the longest pedicels not exceeding 
the acute sepals (13-2 lines in length): bracts herbaceous ‘ petals 
searcely equalling the calyx: stamens frequently 5. — Spec- 4375 
__ _Hook. £. Arc. Pl. 288; Wats. Bibl. Index, 101; Wats. & Coulter 
