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♦ Annuae. 



•»- Saepius diffusoe, parvifloriE ; corolla calycem parum superante, Umbo 



vix ultra liueam lato ; sepalis quaudoque post anthcsiu folioso- 



ampliatis. 



K. I'LEBEIA. Lithospermuin plebeium^ Cham. & Schlecht. liJri- 

 trichium (^Rutidicaryum) plebeium, A. DC. Prodr. — Aleutensis : 

 caules laxi ad apicem usque foliati. 



K. Califoknica. Myosotis Californica, Fisch. & Meyer. Eri- 

 tricliium Californicum, DC Nuculaj ovato-obloiigoe, rugis obtusis 

 parcis notataj, lajves vel scabriuscula3. — In the alkaline wet soil which 

 this species affects, the herbage is apt to become succulent and the 

 calyx accrescent. Such forms especially pass into the notable 



Var. SUBGLOCHIDIATA. Nuculis scabridis vel subtuberculatis aut 

 parce aut insigniter hirtellis, setulis sajpe fasciculatis (nunc basi in 

 fasciculum coalitis) apice vel simplicibus vel furcatis vel penicillatis 

 etiam subglochidiatis. — Eritrichium Calif ornicum^ var. subglochidi- 

 atum, Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. 191. The specimens of Watson and others 

 from the Great Basin and eastward are mostly of this variety ; but it 

 also occurs in the valley of the Sacramento, &c., both in succulent and 

 unaltered forms. 



-1— -1— Laxaj, corollas limbo lin. 1-2 lato, nuculis asperato-rugosis. 



K, TRACHYCARPA. Erecta vel diffusa, facie prajcedentis ; foliis in- 

 ferioribus saspe oppositis ; nuculis late ovato-trigonis rugis crebris 

 reticulatis acutis hinc inde muricatis pi. m. asperatis nunc inter rugas 

 saepius granulatis; areola insertionis oblonga. — California in Sonoma 

 Co., Brewer^ and San Joaquin Valley, Greene. I have this in a de- 

 pauperate form from a Chilian collection made near Valparaiso in 

 185G by Dr. Harvey, and in a tall form with opposite leaves, quite to 

 the inflorescence in Reed's Chilian collection, named at Kew Eritri- 

 chium uliginosum, Philippi. Wherefore it may be suspected to be the 

 Lithospermum muricatum of Ruiz & Pavon (^Eritrichium'? muricatum, 

 A. DC), and probably it may have other specific names; none of 

 them, however, can be safely adopted. It is one of the species which 

 connect the present section with Eahrynitzhia,* 



* Tlie South American species of this section seem to be few, but under 

 several names. They should be worked up by a botanist having access to 

 most of the originals. 



K. LiNiFoi.iA (Anrhusa Unifolia, Lehm., A. oppositifoVut, IIBK. in the same 

 year, Aniiphi/tum lluifolinm, DC, and Eritrichium linifolium , Weddeil) is tlie Andean 

 species with wholly or chiefly opposite leaves and radicant bases of the tufted 



