472 HYDROPHYLLACE.E conanthus 



ROMANZOFFIA 



peduncles slender, loosely and racemosely 3-7-flowered, the earliest ones 

 scapiform; pedicels spreading: corolla nearly white, 5-cleft, short-cam panu- 

 late, about half as long as the linear obscurely spatulate calyx-lobes and of 

 the ovoid very blunt capsule, persistent, its internal appendages not manifest: 

 style very short, at length deciduous: capsule 8-10-seeded. Southeastern 

 Oregon to Nevada. 



5 CONANTHUS Torr. Watson Bot. King 256. 



Low annuals with entire leaves and solitary flowers in the forks 

 of leafy branches. Calyx 5-parted, the sinuses naked and the lobes 

 not enlarged in fruit. Corolla tubular-iunnelform, with a broad, 

 5-lobed limb, and no appendages within. Stamens included, un- 

 equal and unequally inserted on the middle of the corolla-tube. 

 Nectary or disk none. Ovary 2-celled, rather many-ovuled. Style 

 2-lobed at the summit. Capsule, rounded-ovate 10-20-seeded. 

 Seeds ovate or oblong, smooth. 



C. aretioides Watson Bot. King 256. Hispid-hirsute throughout: 

 small and depressed winter annual 2-3 inches high, repeatedly forked from 

 the very base, forming mats or tufts: leaves linear-spatulate, narrowed below 

 to a petiole : flowers comparatively large and numerous, sessile in the forks, 

 fully 6 lines long: calyx- filiform-linear, hispid with long spreading hairs: 

 corolla purple, funnelform with rather long narrow tube and ample limb: 

 stye 2-lobec" at the summit: ovules about 20: seeds usually fewer, the testa 

 thin and translucent, smooth or in age sparsely and obscurely excavated. 

 Southeastern Oregon to Nevada, Arizona and California. 



6 ROMANZOFFIA Cham, in Hor. Phys. Berol. 71, 1 14. 



Perennial herbs with alternate or chiefly radical, round, reni- 

 form or cordate, crenately lobed, long-petioled leaves, and showy 

 flowers in loose racemes or somewhat paniculate. Sepals or caylx- 

 lobes all alike. Corolla funnelform or almost campanulate : the 

 stamens inserted on the base of its tube, unequal. Style and small 

 stigma entire. Inflorescence scapiform, loosely racemose. Ovary 

 2-celled or nearly so, the placentae narrowly linear. Capsule ob- 

 long, retuse, many-seeded. Seeds oval, the testa alveolate-re- 

 ticulated. 



R. Sitchensis Bongard Veg. Sitk. 41 t. 4. Slightly and sparsely pu- 

 bescent or glabrate: stems slender, scape-like, spreading or ascending, 4-10 

 inches long: leaves round reniform, 3-7-lobed, an inch or less in diameter, 

 on slender petioles 1-4 inches long, the bases of which often enlarge and be- 

 come bulblets : flowers white, in a loose terminal raceme : pedicels filiform, 

 becoming an inch or more long: calyx-lobes very glabrous, subulate, about 2 

 lines long: corolla funnelform, 6-8 lines long, 5-lobed, the broad lobes rounded 

 at the summit: style long and slender: capsule longer than the calyx. On 

 wet banks, California to Alaska west of the Cascade Mountains. 



6 CAPNOREA Raf. Fl. Tellur. iii, 75. 



HESPEROCHIRON Watson. 



Low stemless perennials with entire spatulate or oblong leaves on 

 mostly elongated margined petioles crowning the caudex or root- 

 stock, and from their axils sending up naked 1-flowered peduncles 



