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plures, ascendentes, 21/4-7 une. longi, ex glomerulo tuberum compressatorum im- 

 plecto-hirsutorum; caules et petioli et pedieelli et calyces villosi, caules saepe dense 

 villosi; foliorum laminae raro pubescentes, 3-9 lin. latae; racemi terminales, sub- 

 densi, in fructu 1/2-2 une. longi ; pedieelli fructiferi 11/2-2 (vel 4) lin. longi ; calyeis 

 lobi lanceolati, %-% longitudinis corollae, in fructu accreseentes, costa media an- 

 guste recteque alata ; corolla 21/0-3 lin. longa ; capsula elliptica, villosa, 3 lin. longa, 

 valvis ad apicem obscui-e retusis. ) 



Ocean bluff.s, 50 feet : Humboldt coa.st. May. 



Ta.x. note. — EomanzofBa tracyi was disco%'ered on a wet slide near the ocean at Trinidad in 

 1933 by Joseph P. Tracy. One would expect it to represent, most probably, a southern or mar- 

 ginal occurrence of some northern species, but it has not as yet been possible to homologize it 

 with any northern or northwest coast material. Admittedly, it seems in nearly all particulars too 

 near RomanzofiRa unalaschensis Cham, of Alaska, but that species has the leaves bulbous-dilated 

 at base and is destitute of basal clusters of bulblets (ef. Jepson 34, collected at Iliuliuk, Unalaska, 

 Aleutian Isls., the type locality). 



Eef. — RoMANZOFFiA TRACYI Jepson ; type loe. Trinidad, Humboldt Co., Parks 4- Tracy 11,008 

 (typ. in Herbario Jepsoniano). 



3. R. sitchensis Bong. Similar in habit, leaves and inflorescence to R. cali- 

 fornica ; capsule equaling the calyx-lobes to twice as long. 



Moist clefts of rocks, montane, 6000 to 7000 feet : Trinity Co. to Siskiyou Co. 

 North through the Cascade Mts. to Alaska where it is found near sea-level. Aug.- 

 Sept. 



Biol. note. — Romanzoffia sitchensis is destitute of tubers according to Greene (Pitt. 5:35), 

 a statement which seems confirmed by Bongard's illustration of R. sitchensis in the original pub- 

 lication. Greene stresses the bulbous-dilated bases of the basal petioles in both R. sitchensis and 

 in R. unalaschensis. The bulbous character in R. sitchensis is well shown in Bongard's illustra- 

 tion. As to R. unalaschensis, specimens collected at its type locality (Iliuliuk, Aleutian Islands, 

 Jepson 34) show well the bulbous-dilated petiole bases and the absence of tubers, — points con- 

 firmed by the Jepson field book records. 



Locs. — White Creek (head of), Devils Canon Mts., Trinity Co., Tracy 14,597; Scott Mts., 

 8. Siskiyou Co. (Pitt. 5:36). 



Ref. — Romanzoffia sitchensis Bong., Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. ser. 4, 2:158, t. 4 

 (1832), type loc. Sitka, Alas., Mertens. 



BORAGINACEAE. Borage Family 



Herbs, usually rough with coarse hairs. Leaves simple, commonly alternate 

 and entire. Flowers complete, in one-sided spikes or racemes, coiled spirally (scor- 

 pioid) and uncoiling as flowering i^roeeeds. Calyx commonly with 5 divisions or 

 lobes. Corolla regular, 5-Iobed. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube or throat of the 

 corolla and alternate with its lobes, in ours included in the tube or throat, the fila- 

 ments short. Ovary superior, 4-celled, deeply 4-lobed, with a simple style inserted 

 between the lobes, in fruit splitting into 4 one-seeded nutlets (or the nutlets fewer 

 by abortion). Style entire or none, rarely 2-cleft. Nutlets commonly roughened 

 or prickly, sometimes smooth. Endosperm none, except in Heliotropium. — The 

 spikes or racemes (here so-called for convenience) are really one-sided scorpioid 

 cymes. The scorpioid character of tlie inflorescence is, however, often obscured in 

 some species. The nutlets are inserted on a flat or a convex receptacle, or often 

 on a short thick prolongation of the receptacle known as the gynobase; they are 

 often keeled ventrally or dorsally, usually with a line-like ridge or sometimes with 

 a vertical plate. The ovary is not deeply parted in Heliotropium, Euploca and 

 Coldenia; it is at most merely lobed or laterally grooved.— Genera about 100, 

 species about 1800, all continents. 



Bibliog. — Lehmann, J. G. C, Plantae e familia Asperifoliarum nuciferae, 1—178 (1818). 

 Gray, A., Burs in the borage family (Am. Nat. 10:1-4, — 1876) ; Notes on Boraginaceae (Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 10:48-62, — 1874; 19:89-90, — 1883) ; Revision of some Boragineous genera (I.e. 20: 

 257-286,-1885). Greene, E. L., Some West American Asperifoliae (Pitt. 1:8-23, 55-60, 107- 

 120, — 1887; 4:86-97, — 1899); [New species of Oreocarya], (Pitt. 3:109-114,-1896). Parish, 

 S. B., [Note on Pectocarya], (Zoe 1:209, — 1890). Piper, C. V., Notes on the biennial and peren- 



