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gated, weak and slender; leaves ^-1' long, oblong or oblong-liiiear ; racciiics 
terminal, short, usually bractless ; flowers almost sessile ; caljx-lobes linear 
becoming much elongated, often very hispid; corolla white, minute, (less 
than 1" long,) throat somewhat gibbous or scarcely so; iintlcls oblong- or 
ovate-triangular, 1" long, perfectly glabrous and shiiiiiig, ralljcr nallciird npoi) 
the back, the internal angle sulcatc and attaclnid nearly its wholr Icnglh lo 
the short style ; calyx, with the fruit, often (h'cichious. — Oh>sely allied l(i llie 
last, but larger and much more loosely braii<-lte<l, aii<l ('specially marked bv 
its bractless and rarely at all capitate racemes. 1) vari<'s niueli in I he size 
and development and hairiness of the calyx, and apparenlly also in the jnonii- 
nence of the protuberances in the throat of the coiolla. I^iily specimens 
with a short calyx (857) and the maturer form with the calyx w ('ll-devclt)])cd 
(858) show wdde extremes. E. muriculatwn, Ton., Ilo/. ll'///;r.ss il.rpni., 
ined., t. 13., (not of DC.,) is apparently in every respect the same thinu, even to 
the deciduous calyx, except that the nutlets ace \vv\ minutely 5.rraniilale(l, 
with coarser scattered tubercles. The IVnit ol the jncsent sjieclnicns shows 
under the microscope a very obscurely granulated suifiice, so that the ditfer- 
ence is probably ]iot constant. Southern California to Wasliimrton 1\'i-i-ilory. 
On the foot-hills and mountains from Western Kevatla to the W'ahsatch ; 
4-7,000 feet altitude ; May-August. 
Eritkichium pteeocaryum, Torr. Bot. IVilhss Expl. E.ij^al., mid., i. 
13. Annual, 4^-1° in height, hirsute with s[n'eadimr hairs, ei. ci. hianched ; 
leaves linear or narrowly oblong, \-\\' loJj«/; racemes lerminal. n>iially biliir- 
cate; flowers nearly sessile, rather crowded; calyx-lohes K>~2'Mon-. o\ate 
or oblong, acute, densely hirsute with short yellow hairs : corolla white, 
small, the tube about erpuibmr the calyx, with niinul<; appejidai^es ; nntlets 
broadly ovate with a wide membi-aJions irregularly crenate wing, or one oi' 
the nutlets oblong and wingless, strouLdy tuberculate np(m the hack and with 
a deep ventral groove, attacdu'd to the >lyle \ \\v w hole \ remarkable 
species with the wing of the fruit as broad as )he hod v. Or. -oii. N«M-thern 
Arizona, New Mexico, and Western Texa.-. Krequent on the (i»ol -hills <»f tlie 
Washoe and Trinity Mountains, Nevada, and also lonnd on Scnislmrv I>!a!id 
in Salt Lake ; May, June. (850.) 
ECHINOSPERMUM DEFLEXUM, Lchm. DC Vro<U-. la 1 .".o . I'.iciinial : 
stem erect, terete, fistulous, branched, villous with spreadini^ hair>: I. av..> 
oblong-lanceolate, rather obtuse, ciliate at base, hirsute-ptilH sccut ; raceme* 
