242 BOTANY. 
Soiitlierii California, Arizona and Sonera, probably as far north\\ ard as Ore- 
gon. Frequent on the foot-hills and in the dry valleys iVoni the Trinity 
Mountains to the Wahsatch ; 4,300-5,000 feet ahitude ; May, June. (850.) 
Eritrichium Califormcum, DC. DC. Frodr. 10. 130. Root slender, 
annual ; stems weak, simple or usually diffusely branched, ascending, decum- 
bent or prostrate; pubescence appressed, strigose; leaves hnear or narrowly 
ol)long, acute or obtuse, ciliate,^ occasionally opposite and subsheathing ; ra- 
cemes leafy at base, becoming much elongated ; flowers sessile or upon very 
short pedicels ; calyx 5-parted, lobes lanceolate or linear, about equaling the 
corolla, enlargiiio- and spreading and subfoliaceous in fruit ; corolla white, with 
5 yellow 2-])arted scales on the throat, the lobes of the limb very obtuse; 
nutlets triangular, rugose. — A quite variable species, growing in muddy and 
usually subalkaline localities ; stems in length, the calyx ordinarily very 
hispid with yellowish hairs. ^J. Chorisianum and Scouleri, with longer 
pedicelled flowers, are considered a variety. E. connatifolium^ Kelt., is doubt- 
less the same. From Washington Territory to Southern California, Arizona, 
(Ives,) Colorado, and Northern Dakota, (Nicolet.) Frequent from the Wa- 
shoe ^Mountains to the Wahsatch, both in the valleys and in the high canons ; 
4- 11,500 feet aUitude ; April-September. (851.) 
Eritrichium GLOMERATUM, DC. DC. Prodr. 10. 131. "Perennial" or 
at least biennial; stem simple, erect, 6-18' high, usually solitary and rather 
stout and rigid, very hirsute with spreading hairs, leafy especially at base; 
leaves 2-4' long, alternate, oblong- or linear-spatulate or oblanceolate, sub- 
acute, hirsute and usually more or less appressed-pubescent ; spikelets 5-7- 
flo\N'(u-ed, laieral, axillary, clustered, more or less peduncled and usually 
bifurcated or the upper ones sessile, often forming a narrow elongated spike- 
like raceuie, the subtending leaves often elongated-linear and conspicuous, as 
ar(^ also the l)ractlets ; flowers 2-4" long, nearly sessile ; calyx very hispid, 
5- parted, the linear-lanceolate lobes equaling the corolla-tube, becoming much 
enlarged in fruit ; limb of the white corolla broad and expanded, the trunca- 
ted scales of the throat conspicuous; nutlets large, {H" long,) ovate and nar- 
rowed above l)ut obtuse, more or less rugose and tuberculated, especially upon 
the back, which is surrounded by an acute slightly raised margin, sulcate ven- 
I rally an<l attached to the elongated style to the middle.— A stout coarse 
species, well-marked though somewhat variable. From Arizona (Ives) and 
New :\r('\ico noiihwanl to the Saskatchewan. Not seen in Nevada, and 
