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least hispid and narrowest-leaved form, nearly approaching the pre- 

 ceding species, and distributed as Eritrichium oxycaryum, coll. April 

 6, 1882); Colusa Co., 1884, Mrs. Layne- Curran, a depauperate and 

 very slender form. The spreading bristly hairs sometimes abound on 

 the stems as well as the leaves. 



++ ♦+ Eutypicce : nuculai sirpius 4 fertiles, gynobasi angusta? elevatse 



adfixaj, baud areolatoe, 



= Intus tota longitudine sulco tenui basi nee furcato nee in areolam 

 explanato percursaj : herbaj hnmiles, laxaj vel diffusoe, piloso- 

 hispidfc ; foliis lineari- vel oblongo-spathulatis ; spicis cymic sim- 

 plicis vel bipartita? laxiflnris vel iiiterruptis basi s^pius foliatis, 

 vel floribus primaiiis alarihus et pseudo-axillaribus ; calycibus fruc- 

 tiferis lin. 2 longis ; corollis minimis. 



K. LKIOCARPA, Fisch. & Meyer, Tnd. Sem. 1841, 52; A. DC. 

 Prodr. X. 134. Echinospermum leiocarpran, Fisch. & Meyer, op. cit. 

 1835, 36. — Nucula; parvje (vix ultra semilineain longa^) ovata?, acutce, 

 pauUo obcompressaj, fere tota longitudine sulci recti gynobasi subu- 

 latag ad fixai. —^"Western California, from INIonterey (where Dr. Parry 

 collected a low and rather stout form, with oblong leaves) northward, 

 probably to Oregon and Washington Territory. But the only deter- 

 minable specimens in our herbarium, excejit early cultivated ones, 

 directly or indirectly from the originals raised at St. Petersburg, were 

 collected by Dr. Kellogg on the Californian coast, either near San 

 Francisco or farther northward. Under the name of Eritrichium 

 leiocarpum, first used by S. Watson in Bot. King Exped. 244 (who, 

 however, did not collect the genuine plant), three or four smooth- 

 fruited species have been confounded. These may now, upon the 

 re-establishment and extension of the genus Krytdtzkia, be distin- 

 guished maiidy l)y characters of the fiuit, which seem to be good, 

 although rather fine. In the present and the following species the 

 slender ventral groove by which the nutlet is attached runs to its 

 very base, without the furcation of the next succeeding species, and 

 without any expansion into a scar. 



K. AFFINIS. Nucula; lineam vel ultralineam longge, turgida;, sub- 

 utriculata; (pericarpio tenuiori), ad medium usque gynobasi tenuiter 

 pyramidata; adfixo', sepalis lineari-lanccolatis ant paullo aut dimidio 

 breviores. — On the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, California to 

 Washington Terr, and Idaho. The specimens now in hand are : 

 E. side of the Cascades near lat. 49°, Lyall, 18G0. Beaver Canon, 

 Idaho, Watson, 1880. Falcon Valley, Washington Terr., Sulcsdoi-f, 



