Genus 3. 



BORAGE FAMILY. 



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5. Lappula deflexa (Wahl.) Garcke. Nod- 

 ding Stickseed. Fig. 3515. 



Echinospertnum deflexion var. americanum A. Gray, 



Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 224. 1882. 

 Lappula deflexa Garcke, Fl. Deutsch. Ed. 6, 273. 1863. 

 LapPula americana Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club 24 : 294. 



1897. 



Annual, rough-puberulent ; stem slender, erect, 

 paniculately branched, l-3 high, the branches 

 spreading or ascending. Leaves oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, mostly narrowed at both ends, 2-4' long, 

 2i"-6" wide, the lower petioled, the upper sessile; 

 racemes slender, many-flowered ; pedicels slender, 

 2"-4" long, deflexed in fruit ; corolla white or 

 bluish, about 1" broad; fruit pyramidal, about 2" 

 broad ; nutlets keeled, papillose-tuberculate on the 

 back, rarely with a few prickles on the keel, the 

 margins armed with a single row of flat prickles, 

 these sometimes few. 



In thickets, Quebec to Manitoba, British Columbia, 

 Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. Also in Europe and 

 Asia. May-Aug. 





4. ALLOCARYA Greene, Pittonia, 1 : 12. 1887. 

 Mostly annual low herbs, with linear entire leaves, the lowest often opposite, and small 

 flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. Pedicels thickened at the summit, persistent. Calyx 

 5-divided. persistent, the segments narrow. Corolla salverform, white, yellow in the throat. 

 Stamens included. Ovary 4-divided ; style short. Nutlets crustaceous, smooth, or rough, 

 attached at their base or below the middle to the receptacle, the scar of attachment concave 

 or raised. fGreek, different nuts.] 



About 25 species, natives of western North Amer- 

 ica. Type species: Allocarya lithocarya (A. Gray) 

 Greene. 



r. Allocarya scopulorum Greene. Moun- 

 tain Allocarya. Fig. 3516. 



Eritrichium californicum var. subglochidiatum A. 

 Gray, Bot. Cal. 1 : 526. In part. 1876. 



Allocarya scopulorum Greene, Pittonia 1: 16. 1887. 



Somewhat succulent, pubescent with scattered 

 stiff appressed hairs, branched, the slender 

 spreading branches l'-8' long. Leaves 6"-i8" 

 long, i"-ii" wide, sessile or very short-petioled : 

 flowers about 1" broad, distant, borne in most of 

 the axils, very short-pedicelled ; floral bracts 

 similar to the leaves, but shorter; calyx segments 

 linear-lanceolate ; nutlets reticulate on the back, 

 lightly grooved on the ventral side. 



Western Nebraska to Montana, Wyoming and 

 Colorado. June-Sept. 



5. CRYPTANTHA Lehm. Sem. Hort. Hamburg. 1832. F. & M. Ind. Sem. 



Hort. Petrop. 2: 35. 1836. 

 [Krvnitzkia F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 7: 52. 1841.] 



Low annual setose or hispid branched herbs, with narrow alternate entire leaves, and 

 small mostly white flowers, in scorpioid bractless or bracteolate spikes. Calyx 5-parted or 

 S-cleft, at length deciduous from the spike, the lobes or segments erect, mostly connivent in 

 fruit. Corolla small, funnel form, usually with 5 scales closing the throat, the lobes imbri- 

 cated in the bud. Stamens included ; filaments short. Ovary 4-divided ; style short ; stigma 

 capitellate. Nutlets erect, rounded on the back, not keeled, the margins obtuse, acute or 

 wing-margined, attached laterally to the conic or elongated receptacle, the scar of attach- 

 ment mostly longer than broad. [Greek, hidden-flowered.] 



About 50 species, natives of North and South America, mostly of the western United States. 

 Type species: Cryptanrha glomerata Lehm. 



Nutlets, at least some of them, with short processes. 1. C. crassisepala. 



All four nutlets smooth and shining. 2. C. Fendleri. 



