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Cynoglossuji occidentale. G. Vlrginico potius quam C grandi 

 affiae, scabrido-hirsutum ; caule vix ultrapedali ad apicem fere foliato ; 



rugee run nearly unbroken and straight across the broad back from the low 

 dorsal ridge to the margin. 



E. ToRREYi. Hispido-hirsutura, pube etiam calycis albida ; caulibus diffiisis, 

 ramis floridis usque ad apicem saepius foliosis ; foliis oblongis, superioribus inter 

 flores ; nuculis albidis nitidulis apice tantum contractis, rugis latis la3vissimis. — 

 Sierra Nevada, California ; in or near the Yosemite Valley, Torrej% a form with 

 rather erect flowering stems and spicate inflorescence, the bracts hardly exceed- 

 ing the flowers : Sierra Valley, Lemmon (1874), much branched from the root, 

 diffusely spreading, tlie flowering branches equally leafy to the top, the upper 

 leaves among and beyond the scattered flowers. Nutlets ratlier larger than in 

 E. tenellam, somewhat over a line long, destitute of the cruciform outline (like 

 that of the club of cards), and of the sharp murication, but at the margin 

 sometimes obsoletely tuberculate. 



§3. PiPTOCALYX. { Piptocali/x Tovr.) NuculiB, gynabasis, et cetera Z^r^«/<sZ;('ce; 

 calyx 5-fldus circumscissus, basi niembranacea quasi 5-crenulata persistente : 

 corolla fauce prorsus nuda : flores folioso-bracteati sessiles. 



E. ciKCUMSCissiJM. Annuum, pusillum, diff'usum, albido-hispidum ; foliis 

 angusto-linearibus, ramealibus floribusque alaribus et subaxillaribus confertis ; 

 staminibus medio tubi corollae albas iusertis ; nuculis oblongo-ovatis lajvissimis 

 nitidis gynobasi subulato-pyramidatae angulo ventrali a basi fere ad apicem 

 adnatis ; semine ampliitropo-pendulo. — Lithospermam? circumscissum Hook. & 

 Arn. Bot. Beech, p. 370. Piptocalyx circumscissus Torr. Bot. Wilkes, Phan. 

 Pacif. p. 414, t. 12 B ; Wats. Bot. King, p. 240. Southeastern California 

 through the interior desert region to Washington and Wyoming Territories. 



§4. Krynitzkia. [Knjnitzkia Fisch. & Meyer, cum STpp. Eritrichii DC, etc.) 

 Nuculae gynobasi elatai saspius angustte (" styli basi" auctorum) angulo 

 ventrali a basi ad medium vel ad apicem usque affixse, cicatrice aut angus- 

 tissima aut inferne latiore pi. m. exarata : semen aut amphitropum aut 

 rai'ius fere anatropum (E. leucophceo excepto) : corolla alba fere semper parva : 

 calyx 5-partitus persistens, in spp. genuinis cum fructu incluso articulo 

 quandoque sccedens. 



* EuJcri/nitzh'a : annua, calyce hispidissimo, stylo brevi : nuculte immarginatse 

 lateribus obtusis vel rotundatis, 



•1- Angulo ventrali cicatrice vel sulco angustissimo percurso gynobasi fere subu- 



latas afiixaj. 

 ++ Pusillum, hirsuto-canescens ; floribus minimis congestis folioso-bracteatis ; 



corollae fauce nuda ; nuculis laevibus ; calyce fructifero diu persistente. 



E. MiCRANTHDM Torr. Mex. Bound, p. 141. Utah to W. Texas. 

 •M- ++ Parvula ; floribus in spiels demum elongandis ; calyce setoso-hispido sajpius 

 cum fructu secedente. 



E. OXYCARYUM. Hirsuto-cauescens, gracile, spithamaeum ad pedale ; folhs 

 angustissime linearibus ; spicis demum strictis confertifloris ; corollae parvse 



