306 BORAGINACEAE 



Both Brand (in Engler, Pflzr. i^'-il-te,— 1931) and Johnston (Contrib. Am. Arb. 3:94,-1932) 

 hold that our west American pLant differs in no wise from the plant of Asia, wherefore the follow- 

 ing synonj-nis: Echinospermum redotuskii var. occidentale Wats., Bot. King 246, pi. 23, figs. 9-10 

 (187i), "frequent ... Sierras to Wasatch." L. occide7itaJis Greene, Pitt. 4:97 (1899); Jepson, 

 Man. 839 (1925). 



2. L. texana Britt. Stem erect, brauched from or uear the base with ascend- 

 ing branches, 6 to 11 inches high; herbage spreading-hirsute and thinly pubescent ; 

 leaf -blades linear to oblong, obtuse, 4 to 12 lines long, sessile, the lowest oblanceolate 

 and narrowed to short petioles; calyx as long or longer than corolla-tube; corolla 

 light blue, 1 to IV2 lines long, 1 line broad ; stamens inserted about middle of 

 corolla-tube or a little above; nutlets finely tuberculate, I14 lines long, the margin 

 strongly annular-inflated, this ring (or raised border) bearing a row of prickles 

 on its inner side next the dorsal area. 



Desert mesas, 4000 to 5000 feet : eastern Mohave Desert ; east side of the Sierra 

 Nevada in Sierra Co. East to Nevada, Texas and Nebraska, north to Idaho. 

 Mar. -Apr. 



Locs. — Mohave Desert: Needles, Lemmon; Barnwell, New York Mts., K. Brandegee. Sierra 

 Co.: Peavine, K. Brandegee. 



Refs.— Lappot^ texana Britt., Mem. Torr. Club 5:273 (1894) ; Jepson, Man. 839 (1925). 

 Echinospermum texanum Scheele, Linnaea 25:260 (1852), type loc. San Antonio, Tex., Moemer. 

 E. redowsTcii var. eupulatum Gray, Bot. Cal. 1:530 (1876), type loc. "along the eastern side of 

 the Sierra Nevada," Watson, more specifically Trinity Mts., Nev., ace. Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 11:475. L. ciipulata Eydb., Bull. Torr. Club 28:31 (1901). L. redowsTcii var. desertorum 

 Jtn., Contrib. Arn. Arb. 3:93 (1932), at least in part. 



Lappdla echinata Gilib., Fl. Lithuan. 25 (1781), type European. Annual, similar to L. 

 texana; nutlets densely tuberculate, armed with a double row of barbed prickles along the mar- 

 gin. — Adventive at Santa Monica and Upland, ace. P. A. Mum. 



3. L. setosa Piper. Stems 1 or 2 from the root-crown, erect, IY2 to 2^4 feet 

 high; herbage uniformly setose-hispid with spreading or ascending white hairs; 

 leaves in a basal tuft and also rather dense on lower part of stem, the blades linear, 

 1^ to 4i/'2 inches long, the cauline sessile, the sub-basal and basal narrowed to 

 petioles i/4 to ^4 as long; panicle narrow or broad; calyx-lobes linear or spatulate, 

 as long as corolla-tube ; corolla blue, 4 lines broad, its crests tuberculate ; nutlets 

 2 lines long, the dorsal face minutely papillate and with several scattered very short 

 prickles ; marginal prickles very unequal, a little united at base to form a thin 

 neirrow wing, or some bristles on a nutlet distinct. 



Openly wooded ridges or slopes, 1300 to 5200 feet : northern Sierra Nevada in 

 Sierra Co.; North Coast Ranges from northern Lake Co. to western Siskij^ou Co. 

 North to southern Oregon. June-July. 



Locs. — Sierra Co.: Sierra Valley. North Coast Ranges: Snow Mt., n. Lake Co. (Bull. Torr. 

 Club 29:544) ; French Gulch, w. Shasta Co., Blasdale; Siskiyou Mts. (Bull. Torr. Club 29:544). 



Refs.— Lappula setosa Piper, Bull. Torr. Club 29:544 (1902), type loc. Sierra Valley, 

 Lemmon. Ilackelia setosa Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 68:46 (1923). 



4. L. arida Piper var. cusickii Nels. & Mebr. Stems erect, slender, 1 or few 

 from the simple or branched crown of a slender taproot, 9 to 16 inches high ; herbage 

 densely strigose ; leaves mostly in a basal tuft, the blades lanceolate, 1 to 2y2 inches 

 long, 2 to 4 (or 5) lines wide, gradually narrowed to a petiole ^/^ to as long; bases 

 of petioles densely spreading-hirsute or retrorsely hirsute, grayish ; cauline leaves 

 similar, sessile or subsessile, reduced upwards ; panicle with i-ather few spreading 

 branches ; corolla blue, 2 to 2i o lines long, 3 lines broad, its tube not exceeding the 

 calyx; nutlets ovate, 2 lines long, the lanceolate prickles very unequal, united at 

 base to form a narrow wing; dorsal surface set with a few short prickles. 



Dry hills, 4000 to 6500"feet : Lassen Co. to Modoc Co. North to Oregon. May- 

 July. 



