Citation: Adans., Faro. 2:503 (1763).

Derivation: Recorded by Dioscorides as an ancient Tuscan name for some member of the family.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Delicate annual herbs with a basal rosette and erect little-branched inflorescence; leaves sessile, scarcely connate in pairs.

Calyx tube longer than its 4 lobes; stamens 4, with the filaments fused to the whole length of the corolla tube; anthers straight and untwisted; ovary bicarpellary, 1-celled, with thin deciduous styles with capitate scarcely 2-lobed stigmas.

Capsule included in the persistent corolla and/ or calyx.

Distribution:  1 species found in Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia Minor and a second species from California and western South America.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Cauline leaves linear; calyx tubular, with distinct lobes	C. filiformis 1.
1. Cauline leaves ovate, rarely lanceolate; calyx obpyramidal, with minute lobes	C. quadrangularis 2.

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