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* IIOLOCALYX, i. e. calyx fructifer non circumscissus, basi ipsa vel 

 pedicello brevissimo iutermediante rhachi pi. m. articulatus, baud 

 raro cum fructu iucluso secedens. 



•I— CostatcE, Cismontance : sepala nunquam angustissima, costa val- 

 ida rigida, fructifera iu prioribus iusigniter incrassata percursa : 

 nuculai sajpissiine opacaj, areola iutrabasali (^K. Texana excepta) 

 mauifesta : herbas diffuso-ramosae, hispidue, sajpius asperae. 

 +-1- Hetero- vel Monocarycz : calyx fructifer iiiferne arete clausus, 

 costis iusigniter cartilagineo-iucrassatis. 

 K. CUASSISEPALA. Eritrichium crassisepahan, Torr. & Gray, 

 Pacif. R. llep. ii. 171. — Spicie inter Hores bracteata;. Calyx fruc- 

 tifer in pedicello brevissimo etiam indurato diu persistens. NucuIjb 

 ovatae, acutte, vix ultra medium gynobasi angusto-pyramidatai ad(ixa3, 

 tres dorse papilloso-muriculata3 et areola oblongo-lanceolata excavata 

 insertas ; una major, laevis, diu persistens. — This species extends from 

 the Saskatchewan to New Mexico. 



K. Texana. Eritrichium Texanum, A. DC. Prodr. x. 130. — 

 Elatior, ppicis demum laxis plerumque ebracteatis. Calyx fructifer 

 angustus costis angustioribus, subsessilis, maturitate fructu incluso 

 secedens. Nucula solitaria (3 abortientibus), sat magna, parum meuis- 

 coidea, creberrime minutimque puncticulata, cacterum lajvis, ventre a 

 basi fere ad medium carina tenui gynobasi udfixa, diu persistens, de- 

 lapsa basi lacera. 



++ ++ Homocaryce : nucultc 4 fertiles conformes, gynobasi angustiori 

 adfixas, Iteves, ovato-acumiuatte, vix lineam longje, sulco ventrali 

 ima basi in areolam pauUo excavatam subtriangularem repente dila- 

 tato: calyx fructifer (lin. 2 longiis) minus clausus, setis pungen- 

 tibus hispidus, costis prominentibus sed minus crassis : spicse basi 

 tantum bracteatae vel ebracteatae. 



K. Pattersoni. Ilumilis, a basi diffusa ; foliis angusto-siiathu- 

 latis sen linearibus ; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis costa demum promi- 

 nente : nuculis a basi ad medium (vel pauUo ultra) gynobasi subulato- 

 pyramidatae adfixis, una quandoque magis persistente. — At the base 

 of the Rocky IMountains in Colorado ; coll. H. N. Patterson, 1875, 

 J. D. Hooker and A. Gray, 1877. A species till now overlooked, con- 

 necting the following with the preceding group. 



K. Fendleri. Erectus, subpedalis, paniculato-ramosus, rigidulus ; 

 foliis linearibus ; sepalis fructiferis angusto-linearibus ; nuculis sursum 

 magis attenuatis fere ad apicem usque gynobasi angusto-subulatae ad- 

 fixis. — Along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, from the 



