as the ovary, longer than the lanceolate-oblong segments; petals obovate,
entire, rather shorter than the slightly unequal stamens and style; anthers
linear-oblong, fixed near the middle ; stigma subglobose ; capsules cylindrical,
viscid-pubescent, striate, attenuate above, arcuate-recurved.—Dougl.!
in Hook. Jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 213. CE. lithospermoides, Nutt..' mss.
i8. pygmcea: smaller; upper leaves lanceolate, sessile.—CE. pygmsea,
JDougl. 1. c. (fide Hook.)
Low gravelly hills near the branches of Lewis and Clarke’s River, lat.
46°, and in barren sands near the Utalla River (/?.), Douglas! On the
sides of basaltic hills east of Wallawallah, rare, Nuttall! Aug.-Sept.—
Stem .8-10 inches high. Spike 2-3 inches long; the lower bracts resembling
the leaves, but smaller; the others minute. Tube of the calyx, with
the ovary, nearly an inch long. Style about the length of the stamens.
Capsules about half an inch long.—The aspect of the plant, as well as the
inflorescence, is strikingly like that of a Boragineous plant.
* * * Perennial: flowers in a dense spike {which is sometimes drooping at the
apex), yellow, unchanged in fading: tube of the calyx tubular.inf undibuli-
form, nearly the length of the ovary: stamens nearly equal, about the length
of the petals: anthers oblong, fixed by the middle: capsules subulate, obtusely
quadrangular, somewhat recurved.
55. CE. gaureeflora: glabrous; stem erect, “ suffruticose at the base,”
glandular-puberulent at the summit; leaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate at
each end, entire or somewhat toothed, slightly pubescent when young;
flowers (small) numerous, spicate ; tube of the calyx tubular-infundibuli-
form, nearly the length of the linear ovary, as long as the lanceolate segments
; petals obovate, slightly unequal, about the length of the calyx-segments,
the nearly equal stamens, and the style ; anthers oblong, fixed by
the middle ; stigma subglobose ; capsules subulate from a rather broad
base, somewhat quadrangular, at length more or less arcuate-recurved.—
Gaura decorticans, Hook. Sp A m .! hot. Beechey, suppl. p. 343.
California, Douglas !—Stem with a white loose bark, like that of CE.
albicaulis. Leaves 1—3 inches long, veinless, except the midrib. Spike
dense, obtuse, elongated in fruit: bracts linear or subulate, shorter than the
ovary. Flowers, including the ovary, about half an inch long; the calyx
yellowish ; the petals (2 lines in length) apparently bright yellow. Style
at length a little longer than the stamens. Capsules an inch long, glabrous,
with a long attenuate point, dehiscent; the valves 1-nerved. Seeds numerous,
linear-oblong.—The fruit appears to have been wanting in the specimens
which Hooker and Amott described, although it is nearly mature in
one of ours. We have not seen the base of the stem.
* * * * Annual: flowers {small, often minute) axillary or towards the summit of
the branches, yellow, unchanged in fading: tube of the calyx usually very
short: stamens unequal, shorter than the petals: anthers roundish: capsules
usually linear and slender, sometimes subulate, straight or somewhat contorted. 56
56. CE. dentata (Cav.): slightly pubescent; stem slender, simple or
branched, erect or ascending; leaves linear or lanceolate-linear, very narrow,
acutely and remotely denticulate, attenuate at the base; tube of the
calyx infundibuliform-obconic, about half the length of the segments, many
times shorter than the filiform ovary; petals (about 4 lines long) broadly
obovate, nearly entire, about twice the length of the style and longer stamens;
capsules very slender.— Cat), ic. 4. p. 67, t. 398, not of Hook, if Am . ex
Fisch. Sp Meyer, scarcely of Seringe. Holostigma argutum, Spach, Onagr.
p. 13. (ex descr.)
California, Douglas !—This species is not noticed in Hooker and Amott’s
account of Douglas’s Californian collection: our specimen is from a set presented
by the London Horticultural Society. It is a slender plant, scarcely
a foot high; the leaves and ovaries pubescent with minute spreading hairs;
the flowers few (yellow) and near the summit. It seems rather difficult to
ascertain which is the true CE. dentata of Cavanilles; but our plant agrees so
minutely with the description of Mr. Spach (from a specimen of Dombey)
that we can hardly suppose it to be a different species. We want the fruit,
but it is evident that the capsule is linear. The leaves are about half an inch
long, and less than a fine wide.
57. CE.parvula (Nutt.! mss.): almost glabrous (minutely puberulent with
spreading hairs) ; stem much branched, slender; leaves very narrowly linear,
obtuse, nearly entire; flowers (very small) mostly towards the end of the
branches; tube of the calyx infundibuliform-obconic, about the length of the
lanceolate-oblong segments, many times shorter than the filiform ovary; petals
(scarcely a fine long) obovate, entire, about thrice the length of the longer
stamens and the large stigma; capsules linear, elongated, slightly 4-sided,
torulose, nearly straight.
Plains of the Rocky Mountains towards Lewis’s River, Nuttall!—Plant
4-8 inches high. Leaves nearly an inch long, scarcely half a fine wide.
Capsules almost filiform, 6-10 fines long, apparently not attenuated towards
the summit. Stigma very large for the size of the flower.
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entire; flowers numerous, minute; tube of the calyx infundibuliform, as long
as the segments; capsules cylindrical, elongated, curved or contorted, torulose.
Lehm. in Hook.fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 214.
Sandy barren soil on the interior banks of the Oregon River, Douglas.__
Plant 3—5 inches high, with the habit of Epilobium : the stem branching
from the base. Petals scarcely a fine long, equalling the tube of the calyx.
Capsules an inch or more in length, similar to those of Epilobium. Seeds
ovate, angled. Lehm.—This species is unknown to us, and seems different
from any of Mr. Nuttall’s extensive collection in this genus, unless it should
prove to be the same with his CE. parvula, in which the capsules may become
curved when old. J
y ; ------- \------ - — - - -11 ■ / • uuijj. uic uase, puuerulent;
lower leaves much largest, oblong-lanceolate, unequally toothed, attenuate
into a petiole, rather shorter than the stems, the upper ones linear;
spike leafy, unilateral, circinate; ovaries very slender, sessile; petals about
the length of the filaments, shorter than the style ; capsules contortuplicate,.
striate, torulose. Hook. Sp Am., hot. Beechey, suppl. p. 340 ; Hook. ic. pi,.
California, Douglas.—We have not seen this species. The stems are-
said to be 3-5 inches long, ascending; the central one erect and floriferous-
from the base; the flowers copious, retaining their color (pale yellow) when
dry; the upper portion of the raceme recurved until the flowers expand ; the-
capsules about an inch long, and not half a line thick at the base, somewhat
terete, slightly attenuate at the summit. The size of the flowers and the-
torm of the calyx-tube are not mentioned.
60. CE. epilobioides (Nutt.! mss.): almost glabrous ; stem slender, erect,,
branching above; leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, remotely denticulate, attenuate
into a short petiole ; flowers few, towards the summit of the branches ;