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Saskatchewan district (Hand Plills, Bfacoun) to Colorado, Northern 

 New Mexico, and apparently in Arizona ; coll. Fendler, Hall^ Parry, 

 Vasey, Porter, Rushy, &c. It has been unwarrantably confounded 

 with K. leiocarpa, &c. 



1— H- TypiccB, TransmontancB, Leiocaryce : nuculaj lajvissimoe, nitidae, 

 acutte vel acumiuatie, pericarpio sat tenui, sulco ventrali tenui per- 

 cursJB, basi hand vel minime areolataj, gynobasi angustae adfixic : 

 sepala angusta, costa nunc prorainula nee incrassata instructa : 

 herbaB diffusa^ vel erectoe, graciles, calycibus setoso-hispidis. 



1-+ Eremocaryce : nucula solitaria (rarissime^2, cceteris abortientibus), 

 angusta, acuminata, inferne triente parte taiitum gynobasi brevi 

 angustns adfixa, itaque sursum longius libera {Amhlynoti modo), 

 areola ititrabasali vix ulla : herboe graciles, erectaj ; spicis srepius 

 conjugatis teriiisve ebracteatis, calycibus fructiferis arete sessilibus 

 rhachi plerumque adpressis. 



K. OXYCAKTA. K. leiocarpa, Benth. PI. Hartw. 326, non Fisch. 

 & Meyer. Eritrichium oxycaryum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 58, 

 & Syn. Fl. ii. 193. Myosotis Jlaccida, Dougl. m Lehm. Pugill. ii. 

 22, & Hook. Fl. ii. 82 ; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 3G9. Pube brevi 

 strigulosa arete adpressa subcinerea ; caule sa^pius stricto ultrape- 

 dali ; foliis linearibus vel lineari-spathulatis ; calyce fructifero (circa 

 lin. 2 longo) segmentis lineari-filiformibus crassiusculis, versus basim 

 setis crebris dejlexis (validis ht'ud pungentibus, apice attenuato debili 

 nunc incurvo) hispidissimis, superne nudiusculis vel setis brevioribus 

 instructis ; nucula majuscula subtereti ex ovata longius acuminata quasi 

 rostellata. — Not rare from S. California to Washington Territory. 

 When we did not {)0ssess specimens north of California, I referred the 

 original Myosotis Jiaccida, described by Lehraann, to K. leiocarpa, 

 partly because ot the " nuces 4" in the description. But I now learn 

 that original specimens from " barren grounds in the interior of the 

 Columbia" have solitary nutlets, and are of this well-marked species. 



K. MiCROSTACHYS, Greene in herb. Setis breviusculis patentibus 

 pi. m. hirsuto-hispida; caule ramopo semipedali ad bipedalem ; foliis 

 aut angusto- ant lato-linearibus ; calyce fructifero lineam ad sescpii- 

 lineara longo setis subpungentlbus longis patentissimis (nee deflexis) 

 hispido vel hispidissimo, segmentis minus attenuatis ; nucula ovato- 

 lanceolata sensim acuminata ventre parum complanata sulco manifesto 

 ima basi subfurcato percnrsa. — California, near Tejon, Xantus, no. 

 84,86 (/f. leiocarpa, & Eritrichium'? spec. Gray, Jour. Bost. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vii. 147); Los Angeles, iVerirt ; San D'wgo, Pringle (the 



