FIG WORT FAMILY. 



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scapes, narrowly oblong, 3 to 6 lines long, on long petioles (5 to 12 

 lines); corolla very small (less than 1 line long), white or purplish. 



Muddy shores of ponds and lakes: San Mateo Co.; San Francisco; 

 Point Reyes. June-July. 



12. MONNIERA P. Br. 



Perennial herbs with opposite leaves and solitary axillary flowers. 

 Calyx of 5 almost distinct imbricated sepals, the upper broadest. 

 Upper lip of the campanulate corolla emarginate or 2-lobed, the lower 

 3-lobed. Stamens 4, all fertile. Capsule thin, 2-valved, the valves 

 2-parted. Placenta' remaining united in the axis, the valves of the 

 capsule separating from them. (L. G. C. Monnier, 1713-1799, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at Paris.) 



1. M. rotundifolia Pursh var. Eiseni. Stems succulent, creeping, 

 10 to 14 in. long, villous-pubescent or almost glabrous; leaves rotund, 

 sessile, flabellately many-nerved from the base, h in. long; pedicels 



1 or 2 in the axils, longer than the white flowers; corolla little 

 irregular. — (Herpestis Eiseni Greene.) 



Aquatic or in mudd}' situations: San Joaquin Valley (Stockton, 

 Stanford^ t<> Fresno, Eisen). 



13. GRATIOLA L. 



Low herbs with opposite sessile leaves and axillary 1-flowered 

 peduncles. Calyx of 5 almost distinct nearly equal sepals. Corolla 

 tubular; upper lip entire or bifid, the lower 3-cleft. Anther-bearing 

 stamens 2, posterior; anterior pair consisting of sterile rudiments or 

 wanting. Stigma dilated or with two flat lobes. Capsule 4-valved, 

 the valves separating from the placenta-bearing axis. (Latin gratia, 

 grace or esteem, in reference to its medicinal virtues.) 



1. G. ebracteata Benth. Stems somewhat succulent, ascending. 



2 to 3 in. high; herbage obscurely pubescent; leaves lanceolate, entire, 

 £ in. long or less; peduncles longer than the flowers; sepals lanceolate, 

 4 lines long or less, equaling the yellow corolla and surpassing the 

 globular and somewhat 4-angled capsule; sterile stamens wanting or 

 represented by minute rudiments. 



Wet soil in the north Coast Range valleys: Napa City, Jepson; 

 Sonoma Valley, Bioletti (the only recorded localities within our 

 limits), and far northward into Oregon. 



14. ILYSANTHES Raf. 

 Small annuals with opposite sessile leaves. Flowers small, axillary, 

 on filiform naked peduncles (or the upper becoming racemose). 

 Calyx of 5 almost distinct sepals. Corolla tubular; upper lip short, 

 erect, 2-cleft; lower lip larger, spreading, 3-cleft. Fertile stamens 2, 

 posterior, inserted low down; anterior stamens sterile, inserted high in 

 the throat, forked, one of the divisions glandular and obtuse, the other 

 acute and sometimes bearing the rudiment of an anther. Stigma 

 2-lobed. Capsule many-seeded, septicidal or septifragal. (Greek 

 ilus, mud, and anthos, flower, the species a denizen of wet places.) 



