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as leaves closely pubescent. Corolla almost wheel-shaped, 

 its tube being shorter than the calyx, often pink. Nutlets 

 prickly on the margins, but their backs without prickles. 

 Otherwise as no. 1.— Clouds Rest at 8700 ft. alt., Merced 

 Lake, etc. 



L. californica Piper, of the northern Sierra Nevada, has 

 small, wheel-shaped, white corollas and nutlets prickly all 

 over the backs and margins. It may be expected in our 

 district. 



3. ALLOCARYA. 



1. A. stipitata Greene. A low annual, branching from the 

 base. Leaves nearly linear, 1 to 2 in. 

 long. Corolla white, with yellow throat, 

 not J4 m - across, the flowers nearly ses- 

 sile in racemes. Nutlets with flat back, 

 rough. — Moist ground in Yosemite Val- 

 ley, etc. 



4. PLAGIOBOTHRYS. 



Pop-corn Flower. 

 1. P. tdrreyi Gray. Annual, with 

 many branches from the base, 1 to 6 in. Allocarya Plagiobothrys 

 high, soft-hairy. Basal leaves clustered, oblanceolate, about 

 J /2 in. long; upper leaves oblong, extending into the flower- 

 clusters. Corolla white, very small. Nutlets smooth and 

 shining but ridged crosswise, broadly ovate, attached by the 

 middle of the hollowed ventral face. — Common, even up to 

 7500 ft. alt. The herbage of this plant imparts a violet stain to 

 paper. 



5. CRYPTANTHE. 

 Erect annuals. Flowers mostly sessile, small, white, with 

 closed yellow throat. Nutlets 1 to 4, never wrinkled, the 

 inner face with a groove from apex to the scar near the base 

 and often continued beyond as a fork; nutlet attached to the 

 slender central column from the scar half-way or wholly to 

 the apex along the groove. (Eritrichium. Krynitzkia.) — A dif- 

 ficult genus, the species distinguished chiefly by the nutlets. 

 "Forget-me-not" is a name commonly applied to Cryptanthe 

 and also to several kinds of Lappula, but the true forget-me- 

 nots are all European species of Myosotis, much cultivated 

 as ornamental plants. It would seem that the generic name, 

 Cryptanthe, were euphonious enough to be adopted also as the 

 common name for these dainty West American flowers. 



