Echium.] BORAGINEiE. 



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Hab. Falls of Niagara. Mr. Greene, Quebec. Mrs, Sheppard, — (I quite agree with my friend Dr. 

 Torrey, that Z. latifoHum of American authors is a very distinct species, and exclusively a more southern 

 plant.) — Hook, 



13. L. ruderah (Dough); caule herbaceo stricto hirsute, foliis linearibus acuminatis 

 strigosis, spicis foliosis, corollis villosis, tubo longitudine calycis. Lehm, PugiL 11. p. 28. 



Caulis herbaceus, strictus, angulatus, sulcatus, simplex, apiee ramosus, l-l^pedalis, hirsutus. Folia 

 sparsa, conferta, sessilia, acuminata, strig-osa, versus raarginera et ad nervum medium subtus hispida: infe- 

 riora linearia, erecta, bipolUcaria et ultra: superiora lineari-lanceolata, erecto-patentia. Hamuli spica so- 

 litaria, foliosa, pauciflora terminati: ^onftw* subsessilibus. Cali/x hirsutus, 5-partitus: lacinii^ inoequalibus, 

 ercctis, linearibus. Corolla extus villosa, flava. Tubus longitudine laciniarum calycis longiorum cylindri- 

 cus: laciuiis limbi ovatis rotundatis. Pi/amcw^a tubi corollse inserta: awMm* oblongis usque ad faucem 

 porrectis. Stylus longitudine tubi, stigmate simplici. 



Hab. Gravelly banks of the Columbia and MuUnomack Rivers. Douglas, 



14. i, angustifolium ; caulibus herbaceis procumbentibus, foliis linearibus undique stri- 

 gosis, floribus sparsis lateralibus axiUaribusque, fructibus turgide ovatis nitidis impresso- 

 punctatis. — MicL Am. Bor, v, 1. p. 130. Ph. Am. v. 1, p. 131. Lehm. Asper. v. 2. p. 309. 



Hab. Head of Lake Ontario. GoMie. Canada. Dr. Holmes, Norway House on the Saskatchawan. 

 Drummond. — In fruit, and only one specimen gathered. (Drummond's plants, from Brazosia and San Filipe 

 in Texas, III. n. 307 and 306, are probably the same species,) 



15. L, lycopsoides (Lehm.); caulibus herbaceis procumbentibus ramosis foliisque ovato- 

 lanceolatis denticulatis setoso-ciliatis utrinque hirtis, floribus sparsis lateralibus axiUaribus- 

 que, nucibus ovato-trigonis basi emarginatis dorso convexis rugosis. — Lehm. Pugil. IL 

 p. 28, 



Caulis procumbens, teres, hirtus, di-vel trichotomo-raraosus: ramis adscendentibus. Folia sessilia, 

 ovato-lanceolata, acuta, utrinqne e punctis sparsis callosis hirta, uadulato-denticulata, deuticulis callosis se- 

 tosis. Flares laterales axillaresque breviter pedicellati. Calyx hispidissimus, 5-piirtitus, laciniis lanceo- 

 latis, 2 lineas longis, in fructu cernuus, subinflatus. Corolla longitudine calycis, flava, glabra, Umbo erecto 

 minimo. Genitalia inclusa. Nuces ovatae, trigonae, acutse, brunnece, dorso convexse, rugosse. 



Hab. Straits of de Fuca, N.W. America. Dr, Scouleu 



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7. ECHIUM. L. 



Cal. 5-parlitus. Cor. infundibuliformis vel campanulata: fauce ampliata nuda, Limbi 

 laciniis in plurimis insequalibus. Nuces 4, uniloculares, turbinatre, gigartoideae, scabrse, 

 fundo calycis affixse, basi imperforatae. 



1. E, Menziesii; caule herbaceo erecto retrorsum hispido, foliis scssilibus acutis hispi- 

 dissimis, inferioribus angusto-lanceolatis, superioribus ovato-lanceolatis, racemis multifloris 

 imbricatis hispidissirais, staminibus corolla parva subtubulosa multo brevioribus. — Lehm, 

 Pugil JL p. 29. 



IZadtx simpUcissima. Caulis herbaceus, erectus, angulatus, sulcatus, retrorsum hispidissimus, I J-pe- 

 daVis, ramosus. Folia sessilia, obscure 3-nervia, undique e punctis callosis hispidissima. Radicalia et 

 caulina inferiora angusto-lanceolata (3 poll, longa, 4 lin. lata) acuta, integerrima; superiora ovato-lanceolata. 



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