410 Wicutr: ErirricHum IN NORTH AMERICA 
IpauHo: Pleasant Valley, June 25-30, 1871, G. V. Allen ; June 
25-30, 1871, Thos. C. Porter. : 
OrEGoN: Summits of the Wallowa Mountains, 1886, Wm. C. 
Cusick, 1430. Subalpine ridges of the Wallowa Mountains, near 
the lake, 1899, Wm. C. Cusick, 2268. 
2. Ertrrichum Howarpi (Gray) Rydb. 
Cynoglossum Howardi Gray, Syn. Fl. 2’: 188. 1878. 
Omphalodes Howardi Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 423. 1886. 
Eritrichum Howardit Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 327. 
1900. 
A matted plant, densely strigose-hairy with closely appressed 
hairs; leaves 7-13 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, linear-spatulate, 
acute, flowering branches 1-6 cm. high: flower cluster more oF 
less compact when ona short flowering branch, but raceme-like 
_when on an elongated one: calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, acute: 
flowers 7-9 mm. in diameter, the limb of the corolla bright blue: 
nutlets with the dorsal surface either papillose or with minute 
bristly hairs and margined with a rather sharp ridge-like elevation, 
the sides of the nutlet smooth and shining. 
£. Howard: is distributed in the mountains of western Montana, 
and has been collected in the Cascade Mountains in Washington. 
It was originally described from material collected by Winslow 7 
Howard in the “ Rocky Mountains in Montana.” 
Specimens have been examined as follows : 
Moytana: Without special locality, ‘about 1866,” Winslow 
J. Howard. Mt. Helena, 1883, Wm. M. Canby, 242. Helena, 
May 1, 1886, R. S. Williams ; June, 1888, F. D. Kelsey. Yogo, 
Belt Mountains, July 25, 1888, R: S. Williams. Park county, 
1889, Frank Tweedy. 
Wasuincton : Cascade Mountains, 1882, Frank Tweedy, 13° 
3. Eritrichum splendens Kearney, sp. nov. 
A strigose-hairy herb, the caudex much branched and forming 
a mat of numerous. short, sterile, leafy shoots, and of fewer elon- 
gated flowering ones which attain a height of from 4~13 om 
lower leaves narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5-2 cm. long, 2~3 a 
broad, tapering to a slender petiole, the upper leaves on the flower- 
ing stems sometimes linear or oblong-linear, sessile, the UPP® aoe 
face less hairy than the lower: racemes few-flowered, the. lowe 
peduncles elongated at least in fruit : calyx lobes oblong, obtuse OF 
