BORAGE FAMILY 603 



14. Oreocarya spiculifera Piper. Bristly Oreocarya. Fig. 4325. 



Oreocarya spiculifera Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 481. 1906. 

 Oreocarya cilio-hirsuta Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 55: 378. 1913. 

 Cryptantha spiculifera Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 14: 298. 1927. 



Cespitose with a stout woody caudex bearing 1 to several short tufted branches, the herbage 

 pallid. Basal leaves numerous and crowded, spatulate-oblanceolate, mostly acute, the blades 

 1.5-2 cm. long, about equaling the margined petioles, densely and finely pubescent on both sides 

 with soft reflexed hairs, also with scattered spreading bristles on both sides and the margins; 

 stem-leaves similar but with shorter petioles ; flowering stems simple, erect, 2-3 dm. high, 

 pubescent like the leaves; inflorescence of 8-12 ascending racemes, floriferous throughout or 

 nearly so; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter than the calyx; pedicels short; calyx-lobes erect, 

 narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 mm. long, pubescent like the leaves but more bristly; corolla white, 

 tube 5 mm. long, limb 8 mm. broad, appendages short, triangular-ovate; nutlets ovoid, 3 rnm. 

 long, pale brown, dull, smooth on the narrow margin, bluntly tuberculate on the dorsal side, 

 rugose on the ventral, the groove reaching to the apex; gynobase longer than the nutlet. 



Dry hillsides or benches, Arid Transition Zone; eastern Washington to southwestern Idaho. Type lo- 

 cality: "Ritzville [1,600 feet altitude], Adams County," Washington. May-June. 



15. Oreocarya celosioides Eastw, Cockscomb Oreocarya. Fig. 4326. 



Oreocarya celosioides Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 240. 1903. 

 Cryptantha celosioides Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14: 299. 1927. 



Perennial from a stout, woody root ; branches of the caudex densely clothed with the broad 

 imbricated petioles of old leaves; stems 1 to several, stout, 2^ dm. high, densely setose with 

 spreading bristles. Basal leaves crowded, spatulate to oblanceolate, usually obtuse, 2-5 cm. long, 

 densely and finely white-tomentose on both sides, also setose with slender appressed bristles; 

 cauline leaves less tomentose and thickly beset by bristles with more or less prominent pustulate 

 bases ; inflorescence usually extending to the middle of the stem or below, often rather narrow 

 and dense, densely setose-bristly; bracts foliaceous, lanceolate-Hnear, shorter than the mature 

 cymules ; sepals densely bristly, 5 mm. long in flower, linear-lanceolate and 10-12 mm. long in 

 fruit ; corolla white, tube 4-5 mm. long, and equaling the sepals, limb about 8 mm. broad ; nut- 

 lets 2-4 maturing, ovate-lanceolate, very acute or narrowly margined on the angles; dorsal 

 surface dull or slightly glossy, conspicuously rugose and toward the edges somewhat muriculate ; 

 scar closed, extending from the base to near the apex. 



Dry slopes and plains, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; Columbia River Basin, from Okanagon 

 and Lincoln Counties, Washington, to Wasco and Baker Counties, Oregon. Type locality: "bank of the Columbia 

 River, eastern Washington." May-July. 



16. Oreocarya flavoculata A. Nels. Yellow-eyed Oreocarya. Fig. 4327. 



Oreocarya flavoculata A. Nels. Erythea 7: 66. 1899. 

 Oreocarya Shockleyi Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 30: 245. 1903. 

 Cryptantha flavoculata Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14: 334. 1927. 



Perennial with cespitose, woody caudex ; stems 1 to many, rather slender, 1-3 dm. high, 

 pubescent with retrorsely appressed hairs and hispid with slender, spreading bristles. Lower 

 leaves linear-oblanceolate to spatulate-obtuse or sometimes acute, 3-8 cm. long, appressed-silky- 

 pubescent on both sides with scattering appressed bristles interspersed, upper stem-leaves less 

 appressed-pubescent, and more bristly, the bristles, especially on the margins, spreading; inflo- 

 rescence a rather narrow spicate-thyrsus, with the upper cymules crowded, the lower scattered ; 

 floral bracts linear-lanceolate, at least the lower longer than the cymules ; sepals densely bristly 

 with usually yellowish bristles, linear-lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long in anthesis, 10-12 mm. in fruit ; 

 corolla white or pale yellow, crests in the throat yellow, tube slender, 7-10 mm. long, limb 

 7-8 mm. broad; nutlets ovate to lanceolate in outline, usually obtuse at apex, the margin at the 

 angles acutish, dorsal surface somewhat glossy, tuberculate, muriculate and more or less rugose ; 

 scar open and conspicuous, surrounded by a high elevated margin. 



Rocky hillsides, often associated with sagebrush or junipers. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; 

 a Great Basin species, extending from western Colorado and Wyoming to central and southern Nevada, reaching 

 southeastern California where it is found in the Inyo and Panamint Mountains. Type locality: Piedmont, 

 Wyoming. May-July. 



23. AMSINCKIA Lehm. Del. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 7. 1831. 



Hispid or setose annual herbs with erect or spreading, branched stems, alternate linear 

 or lanceolate leaves and yellow flowers in elongated scorpioid spikes. Calyx deeply 

 5-parted or rarely appearing 4-parted by the union of 2 into 1 broader one. Corolla 

 yellow or orange, funnel form or salver form, the throat open and without crests or proc- 

 esses, sometimes constricted and more or less closed by sac-like processes. Stamens 

 inserted in the throat or in the tube, irregularly or in one plane. Style filiform; stigma 

 capitate, 2-lobed. Nutlets crustaceous, erect or incurved, smooth or rough, triquetrous 

 or ovate-triangular. Cotyledons deeply 2-parted. [Name in honor of William Amsinck, 

 a patron of the Hamburg Botanic Garden.] 



A genus of about 20 species natives of western North America and southern South America. Type species, 

 Amsinckia lycopsoides Lehm. 



The natural limits of the specific entities of Amsinckia are not obvious and a satisfactory systematic treat- 



