214 CRASSULACEiE. cotyledon. 



S. ciliosum. Stems branching from a short proliferous root-stock, 2-4 

 inches high : leaves lanceolate from a broad base, long acuminate, 6-10 lines 

 long, ciliate on the margin or the cauline smooth : flowers yellow in small 

 compact cymes, sessile : petals lanceolate, acuminate, a little longer than 

 the stamens, twice as long as the ovate long-acuminate sepals: carpels 

 divergent a ove. On rocks in the Coast mountains near Roseburg, Oregon. 



S. stenopetalum Pursh. Fl. 324. Cespitose: stems erect from a 

 decumbent base, 2-4 inches high : leaves lanceolate, closely sessile, 2-4 

 lines long, granular-puberulent: flowers yellow, crowded in close compound 

 cymes, on short pedicels : petals lanceolate acute equalling or a little ex- 

 ceeding the stamens, twice as long as the ovate sepals : carpels erect, tipped 

 by the long divergent styles. On the higher ridges of Eastern Washington 

 and Oregon to the Rocky Mountains. 



•*-. ■*- Annuals. 



S. pumilnm Benth. PI. Hartw. 310. Slender, branching or single, 1-3 

 inches high: leaves ovate-oblong, a line or two long: flowers sessile, in 

 sparingly branched cymes, yellow: calyx-lobes very small, triangular, 

 acute ; petals linear, acute, 1-2 lines long, exceeding the stamens and 

 style : follicles short, 1-seeded, the seed erect, filling the cavity. On grav- 

 elly soil Oregon Nuttall to California. 



COTYLEDON L. Gen. n. 578. 



Herbs or soft-wood plants with thick fleshy entire leaves and 

 often showy, mostly scarlet and yellow flowers in scorpioid cymes 

 or long racemes. Calyx 5-parted, petals united into a 5-lobed 

 pitcher-shaped or cylindrical corolla. Stamens 10 inserted on 

 the corolla-tube : carpels distinct or rarely united at base, many- 

 seeded beaked by tha subulate style. 



C. Oregonensis Watson Proc Am. Acad, xvii, 373. Stems ascending 

 from a stout branched rooting caudex 6-8 inches high, the rosulate basal 

 leaves spatulate, obtuse, 8-15 lines long, the cauline oblong-spatulate, 6 

 lines long or less : peduncles axillary along the upper part of the stem fi-12 

 lines long, bearing short simple or compound few-flowered racemes, pedi- 

 cels 1-2 lines long, with small bractlets; sepals deltoid, a line long: petals 

 pale yellow, united below the middle, 4 lines long ; stamens slightly shorter, 

 carpels oblong, rounded at the top, apiculate with the slender style. East- 

 ern base of the Cascade Mts. near Mt. Hood. 



€. farinosa Baker Refug. Bot i, t. 71. Caulescent: more or less 

 mealy-pulverulent: rosulate leaves rather flaccid, ascending, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the larger ones 2-4 inches long, very acute : flowering branches 

 a span high or less with scattered broadly ovate to lanceolate clasping 

 leaves : flowers in a rather close short compound cyme ; bracts ovate-lanceo- 

 late, rather large ; pedicels stout, 1-3 lines long : sepals broadly lanceolate, 

 about 3 lines long; petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, 4-6 

 lines long; carpels ovate-oblong about three lines long. At the mouth of 

 the Chetco River, Oregon and Southward along the Coast. 



Order XXXIV. DROSERACE/E S. F. Gray Arr. Brit. PL ii, 664. 



Herbs or rarely suffrutesce'nt plants with alternate or crowded 

 entire, usually viscid-glandular leaves without stipules and 

 perfect flowers. Se als 5, persistent, equal, sometimes united 

 at base; imbricate in the bud. Petals 5, alternate with the 

 sepals, marcescent, stamens distinct, usually as many as petals 



