308 BORAGINACEAE. 



linear, hispid with widely spreading, but not deflexed, straight 

 and somewhat pungent hairs; nutlet solitary, somewhat flattened 

 laterally, the groove of attachment divaricately forked and some- 

 what open at the base. 



Frequent in sandy soil in the foothills throughout our range. 

 Our plants usually somewhat canescent, but otherwise not differing 

 from the northern form. 



7. C. leiocarpa (F. & M.) Greene. Commonly branched from 

 the base, 1-3 dm. high; spikes leafy bracted, the terminal larger and 

 interrupted, the lateral short and glomerate; sepals short-linear, 

 hispid bristly; nutlets 4, narrowly ovate, acute, 1.5 mm. long, the 

 ventral groove not forked or scarcely so. 



Frequent on the sand-dunes along the seashore. 



8. AMSINCKIA Lehm. 



Hispid annual herbs with erect or spreading branched 

 stems, alternate linear leaves, and yellow flowers In elon- 

 gated scorpioid spikes. Calyx herbaceous; sepals 5 or 4, 

 by the union of 2 into 1 broader one. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, the throat somewhat funnelform with more or 

 less distinct folds but destitute of crests or processes. 

 Filaments short. St^de filiform; stigma capitate, 2- 

 lobed. Nutlets crustaceous, erect or incurved, smooth 

 or rough, triquetrous or ovate- triangular. 



1. A. spectabilis F. & M. Stems erect, 3-6 dm. high, often 

 branched at base, the branches spreading or decumbent; herbage 

 sparsely hispid, the hairs with very pustulate bases; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, bright green; calyx-lobes lanceolate-linear, hispid with 

 usually fulvous hairs; corolla orange-colored, usually 8-10 mm. 

 long, the throat glabrous; anthers unequally inserted in the throat; 

 nutlets reticulate-rugose and granulate, dark-colored. 



Common in sandy soil near the coast, and apparently passing 

 into the next. These plants have long been considered as belonging 

 to A. lycopsoides Lehm., but that is a small-flowered species which 

 has a bearded throat. It belongs to the seaboard and ranges from 

 San Francisco to Vancouver Island. In applying the name A. 

 spectabilis to the narrow-leafed plant of the interior valleys of 

 middle California, recent authors have clearly erred; for Fischer 

 and Myer's specimens came from the seacoast at Bodega Bay, where 

 the form we have in mind is common. February-June. 



2. A. interm.edia F. & M. Stems erect, in robust plants much 

 branched and more or less spreading; herbage hirsute and hispid 

 throughout; leaves linear-lanceolate or linear, often canescent; 

 calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, much exceeding the nutlets, hispid 

 with white or somewhat fulvous hairs; corolla orange or yellow, 

 usually less than 8 mm. long, the throat glabrous; nutlets reticulate- 

 rugose and granulate, usually pale. 



A very common Weed in all the valleys and foothills. February- 

 June. 



