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BORAGINE.E. IMs/osotis. 



Hab. N.W. Coast. Douglas. — (There are specimens in the collection of this, or a closely allied species, 

 a foot in height, with the youn^ spikes densely capitate, the flowers twice or thrice larger than the usual 

 appearance of M, versicolor, and with the hairs of the spikes yellowish. — H.) 



4. M.Jiaccida (Doiigl.); caule erecto ramoso, foliis linearibns calloso-strigosis, spicis 

 ebracteatis bifidis, calycibus 5-partitis in fructii arete adpressis clausis basl apiceque hispi- 

 dissimis, 



Planta annua. Caulis erectus, 1-1 J pedalis, teres, adpresso-pllosus, ramosus, ramis erecto-patentibus, 

 in spicam bifidam desinentibus. FoHa sessilia. linearia, (1-1 J poll, longa 1 J lin. lata,) acutiuscula, integer- 

 rima, calloso-strigosa, uninervia, patentia. Spicce cauleai et ramos tertuinantes, ebracteatse, multiflorse, 

 ante anthesin revolutae, dein elongatse, flaccidse. Flares subsecundi, sessiles, crescente fructu, distantes. 

 Calyces 5-partiti: laciniis linearibus obtusls basi apiceque hispidissimis, floriferi erecti, fructiferi clausi, rha- 

 chim arete adpressi. Corolla (ut videtur) flava, glabra. Tubus longitudine calycis. Limbus brevis, pla- 

 nus, laciniis integerrimis, Nuces 4, ovatae, acuminato-rostellatae, glaberrimBe, fusco-nitidse. 



Hab. N.W. Coast, in dry plains. Douglas, 



fi, nucibus rvgosis, 



5. M.glomerata; caule erecto foliisque spathulato-linearlbushispidis, spicis solitariis axil- 

 laribus subpedunculatis bracteatis glomeratis, floribus confertis, calycibus hispidissimis, nu- 

 cibus dorso rugosis. (Tab. CLXII.) — Nutt, Gen, Am. v, I, p. 112. — Cynoglossum glo- 

 meratum. Fras. — Pursh^ Am, v, 2, p, 729. Lehm, Asper, v. I. p, 176. 



Hab. Barren sands of the Columbia, near Lewis and Clarke's River, Douglas. About Carlton House 

 Fort. Dr. Richardson. — One of the most beautiful species, with white flowers of the size of those of JLn- 

 chusa officinalis. All the spikes are not, as said in NuttalPs description, bifidy but (according to 

 my specimens) only the superior ones; the inferior ones are simple. In the description now referred to, 

 the bractes of the spikes are not mentioned, which are linear, hispid (hispidissimse); the inferior ones of 

 the length of the calyx. The inflorescence is rather a spica terminalis composita e spiculis alternis ap- 

 proximatis simpUcibus bifidisque, than what is called spicae axillares, which becomes more evident since the 

 leaf at the base of the spikelets (quite of the same structure as the stem-leaves) is not affixed to the stem, 

 but at the branch of the spike. 



Tab. CLXIT. — Fig. 1, Flower; fig. 2, Pistil; fig. 3, Fruit; fig. 4, Single acheniura, anterior view:- 

 magnified. 



6. M. leucophma (DougL); caule erecto, foliis lanceolato-linearibus supra sericeis subtus 

 strigosis, spicis in summo caule congestis paucifloris, calycibus hispidissimis, nucibus 



(Tab. CLXIIL) 



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Planta pulcherrima. Radix perennis. Caulis erectus, subpedalis, angulatus, inferne pilis adpressis, 



superne pills pa*entibu3 tomentoso-hispidus. Folia sessilia, alterna, lanceolato-linearia, acuta, integerrima, 



supra sericea, subtus strigosa, trinervia, nervis lateralibus submarginalibus obscurioribus, Spicce plures 



in apice caulis axillisque follorum superiorum densissime congestse, hispidissimse, pauciflorae. Calyx 5- 



partitus, 4 lineas longus: laciniis linearibus obtusis uninerviis inlus apice tomentosis. Corolla magna, alba. 



Tubus calyce paullo longior, glaber. Limbus 5-partitus, planus, laciniis obovato-subrotundls. Antherm 



supra medium tubi adnatae. [Nuces 4, suborbiculatse, ovatse, acutas, glabrae, laeves, dorso planae, marginibus 

 Fubalatis. Semen ovatum, obtusum. — Hook^ 



Hab. Arid barrens of the Columbia, and of its northern and southern tributaries. Douglas. 



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