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2. E. virgatum Benth. Stem slender, erect, simple or with few 
branches, 3 to 8.6 dm. high; leaves in whorls on lower part of stem or 
basal, oblanceolate; bracts lanceolate; calyx white, buff, sulphur-yellow 
or pink.—Stream beds. 
3. E. vimineum Dougl. Stems 1 or several, 7 to 43 cm. high, much 
branched; leaves orbicular to broadly ovate, white-tomentose below; in¬ 
volucres very narrow, strongly angled; flowers few, rose-color or yel¬ 
lowish ; outer calyx segments obovate, inner oblong.—Coast Range hills. 
4. E. parvifolium Sm. Shrub, or woody only at base, 3 to 8.6 dm. 
high; branches densely leafy with fascicled leaves; leaves thick, oblong- 
lanceolate to roundish, dark green and glabrous above, white with a 
dense felt beneath; involucres densely woolly on inside at throat; calyx 
white; filaments hairy at base.—Sand dunes and hillsides near the coast. 
5. E. fasciculatum Benth. Wild Buckwheat. Low shrubs 6 to 14 
dm. high; stems very leafy with fascicled leaves which are narrow, 
strongly revolute, tomentose beneath and often glabrate above; heads 
borne in an umbel, or the umbel often contracted or head-like; bracts 
most foliaceous; flowers rose-color or whitish. — Mountains and mesas, S. 
Cal. 
6. E. latifolium Sm. Stout, woolly throughout; leaves oblong to 
ovate, upper surface becoming glabrous, lower surface densely woolly: 
heads of involucres 1 to 4 in a terminal cluster on an erect naked stalk 
or the stalk branched at summit and the heads in an umbel; involucres 
tomentose; bractlets densely tomentose; flowers pale rose-color.—Sea- 
coast. 
7. E. nudum Dougl. Stems 1 or several, simple below, branching 
above and bearing many terminal and lateral heads of flowers; leaves 
mostly in a basal cluster; involucres glabrous or nearly so, 3 to 6 in each 
head; bractlets glabrous; flowers white or reddish, sometimes sulphur- 
yellow.—Hill country. 
8. E. umbellatum Torr. Sulphur Flower. Peduncles erect from 
a branching woody base, naked, 7.2 to 12 cm. high; leaves ovate, gla¬ 
brate above, white-woolly beneath; umbels simple, subtended by a whorl 
of linear to obovate bracts; flowers sulphur-yellow; filaments pilose on 
lower half.—Higher Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges. 
SAURURACEAE. LIZARD-TAIL FAMILY 
Ours perennial herbs with scape-like stems. Leaves alternate, entire, 
petioled, mostly in a basal cluster. Flowers in a dense terminal spike 
without calyx or corolla. Stamens 6 to 8. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 or 4 
stigmas. Fruit a pod.—Species 4, in temperate and sub-tropical Asia 
and N. Am. 
1. ANEMOPSIS Hook. 
Stolon-bearing herbs with aromatic rootstock. Spike conical, sur¬ 
rounded at base by a showy white involucre of 5 to 8 bracts, each flower 
(except the lowest) also subtended by a small white bract. (Greek ane¬ 
mone, and opsis, appearance, the inflorescence resembling the flower of 
anemone.) 
