+ 
COLLECTED IN THE UPPER MISSOURI, ETC. 295 
6. Myosotis (Eritrichium) Tezane, A. DC., proxima, sed pedicelli fruc- 
tiferi plerisque erecto-patentes, nec horizontales aut subdeflexi, et im- 
primis carpella granulosa, nec lævia, trigona. 
Has. Gravelly banks of Upper Platte. July. ». 260. 
1. Myosotis ? 
Has. In the Kooskooskie valley, in rocky loamy places, growing with 
Clarkia pulchella. Flowers very conspicuous, bright orange. June. 
Annual or biennial. 2. 339. 
A large-growing species, from eight inches to a foot high, very 
hispid, with earpels which are solitary by abortion and ruguloso- 
tuberculate. 
8. Myosotis Demie tenella, Nutt. MS. 
Has. Sunny rocky slopes of the mountains along the valley of Cœur 
d’Aleine River. April. Corolla white with an nus lon belt 
around the faux. zn. 290. 
9. Myosotis sericea, Nutt. MS. 
Has. Calcareous clayey cliffs, on the hills of the Upper Platte River. 
Flowers white. Plant prostrate. June. ». 89. 
Too near, I fear, to Myosotis (Eritrichium, A. DC.). 
1. Echinospermum floribundum, Lehm.—Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. vol. ii. 
p. 84. t. 164, 
Has. Banks of rivulets, deep shady woods of the hills of Upper Platte 
River. July. x. 44, ` 
1. Lithospermum pilosum, Nutt. De Cand. Prodr. vol. x. p. 79. 
Has. Grassy slopes of Cœur d’Aleine Mountains. Many stems from 
one thick ligneous caudex. Corolla pale yellow. May. ». 605. 
Mr. Nuttall detected this on the Flat-head River of the Rocky Moun- 
tains; and Mr. Tolmie has:sent it to me from about Fort Vancouver. — 
l. Mertensia paniculata, Ait.(sub Pulmonar.). Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. p.87. 
Has. Deep shady defiles, in mountains of the Nez Percez country- aed 
feet high. Male fl. June. 2. 485. 
2. Mertensia oblongifolia, Nutt. (sub Pulmonar.). De Cand. Prodr. E 
Has. Wet rocks, Upper Oregon, abundant on the Columbia, with the > 
small Fritillarias and Claytonia. March, April. n. 316. 
3. Mertensia alpina? Torr. (sub Pulmonar.). De Cand. Erode. vol. x. 
p.91. Lithospermum strictum, Gey. MS. 
Has. Fertile meadows in the Lower Platte valley, in shady grassy spots, 
under Populus candicans. May, June. m. 24. 
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