BORAGE FAMILY 571 



broadly ovoid, about 1.5 mm. long and 1 mm. broad; dorsal side conspicuously convex, keeled 

 to the middle or lower, ridges somewhat irregular and reticulately joined, interspaces small and 

 distinctly tuberculate; ventral side with the prominent ridge surrounding the scar prolonged 

 upward along the keel forming a groove for the latter up the middle ; scar lateral with the ex- 

 panded margins strongly upturned, thus appearing narrow and deeply convex. 



Heavy soils in the vicinity of Mountain Lake in the Presidio, San Francisco. A local endemic closely related 

 to A. trachycarpa and A. Calif ornica. April-June. 



29. Allocarya califomica (Fisch. & Mey.) Greene. California Allocarya. 



Fig. 4250. 



Myosotis califomica Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 42. 1835. 



Allocarya califomica Greene, Pittonia 1 : 20. 1887. 



Allocarya scalpta Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 104. 1920. 



Allocarya areolata Piper, op. cit. 105. 



Allocarya reticulata Piper, loc. cit. 



Allocarya dispar Piper, op. cit. 109. 



Plagiobothrys reticulatus var. rossianorum I. M. Johnston, Contr. Arnold Arb. No. 3: 79. 1932. 



Stems usually much-branched at base, slender, decumbent or spreading, 1-3 dm. long, 

 strigose. Leaves appressed-hispidulous, lower linear to linear-spatulate, upper narrowly oblong 

 or somewhat oblong-oblanceolate ; racemes slender, simple, elongated in age, leafy-bracteate 

 toward the base; calyx appressed-hispidulous; lobes linear to lanceolate, 2.5-4 mm. long; 

 corolla 1.5-3 mm. broad; nutlets ovoid, 0.6-1 mm. long and half as broad; dorsal side convex, 

 keeled only near the apex, ridges low and rounded, anastomosing, the interspaces thickly and 

 finely granulate, tubercles wanting or sparse and obscure ; ventral side strongly keeled ; scar 

 small, elliptic to ovate, concave, ridge surrounding it with the ends prolonged above it, forming 

 distinct ridges along either side of the keel to about the middle. 



Damp depressions. Humid Transition Zone; coastal valleys from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Marin County, Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: Fort Ross, Sonoma County, California. May-July. 



Allocarya califomica var. minuta (Piper) Jepson & Hoover in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 363. 1943. {Allo- 

 carya minuta Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 104. 1920.) Stems 1 to several, erect, simple or branched; 

 calyx 1.5-2 mm. long; corolla 3.5-4 mm. broad; nutlets smaller, 1 mm. long or less, finely and sparsely granu- 

 late in the interspaces. Humboldt Bay region, California. Type locality: Fort Seward, Humboldt County, Cali- 

 fornia. 



18. ECHIDIOCARYA a. Gray in Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 854. 1876. 



Annual, usually diffusely branched herbs with the lowest leaves opposite, the others 

 alternate. Flowers in slender spikes, bracteate or the upper bractless. Calyx parted to the 

 base or nearly so, the lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla white, the throat not crested. Nut- 

 lets 4, incurved, rugulose-muriculate dorsally, conspicuously keeled ventrally; scar elevated 

 on a prominent cylindrical stipe. [Name Greek, meaning a diminutive viper and nutlet, 

 in reference to the peculiar shape of the stipe.] 



A genus of three species, two in southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico, and one in Chile. Type 

 species, Echidiocarya califomica A. Gray. 



1. Echidiocarya califomica A. Gray. California Echidiocarya. Fig. 4251. 



Echidiocarya califomica A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 12: 164. 1877. 

 Plagiobothrys Cooperi K. Gray, o^. cit. 2<i:2%i. 1885. 

 Plagiobothrys calif ornicus Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 407. 1887. 

 Plagiobothrys allocaryoides Brand ex Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. 20: 47. 1924. 

 Allocaryastrutn califomicum Brand, Pflanzenreich i^': 100. 1931. 



Stems several to many from the base, decumbent or prostrate, slender, 1-4 dm. long, often 

 diffusely branched, hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves often numerous below, the lower 

 oblanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, rounded or obtuse at apex, rather thinly hirsute with 

 ascending hairs or sometimes canescent with an appressed pubescence; upper stem-leaves and 

 lower floral bracts mostly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate or sometimes narrowly oblong; spikes 

 slender, at length elongated and remotely flowered, often bractless above the middle; calyx 3 

 mm. long in fruit, lobed to the base, the lobes linear-lanceolate, hirsute and sparingly hispid; 

 corolla 4-6 mm. broad; nutlets usually 4, ovoid, 1.5 mm. long; dorsal keel thin above, reduced 

 to a mere line and fading out a little below the middle of the nutlet, rugae irregular, raised and 

 thin or reduced to lines, often muriculate ; scar_ a short stipe near the base of the akene, the 

 ventral surface sharply angled with a thin median keel. 



Grassy slopes and mesas, Upper Sonoran Zone; South Coast Ranges at Vancouver Pinnacles, San Benito 

 Countv and Estrella, San Luis Obispo County; Pampa, Kern County, and in cismontane southern California 

 from Santa Barbara and San Bernardino Counties south to San Diego County, California. Type locality: ban 

 Bernardino Co." Feb.-May. 



Echidiocarya califomica subsp. gracilis (Brand) Abrams. (Plagiobothrys califomicus var. gracilis I. M. 

 Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 73. 1923; Allocaryastrutn gracile Brand, Pflanzenreich 4=^2: 100. 1931.) 

 Stems very slender, hispidulous with spreading hairs; leaves linear-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. wide, acute or acutish; 

 calvx-lobes very narrow; corolla 1.5-2 mm. broad; nutlets 1-1.5 mm. long. Vicinity of San Diego south to 

 northern Lower California; and on the following Channel Islands: Santa Cruz, San Clemente and Santa Catalina. 

 Type locality: San Diego. 



Echidiocarya califomica subsp. fulvescens (Brand) Abrams. (Plagiobothrys califomicus var. fulvescens 

 I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 74. 1923; Allocaryastrum ursinum var. fulvescens Brand, Pflanzen- 



