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* Intermedlce, ramosoe, parvifloras, foliis parvis linearlbus, Eakrynitzkiis 



nimis affiues. 



•t- Annua, cymis pedunculatis srepius bi-tri-radiatis, spicis confertifloris 



brevibus ebracteatis. 



K. OXTGONA. Eritrichium oxygonum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 

 89. Facie et calyce K. pterocaryce sat similis, nuculis nisi acutangulis 

 Typicarum. Nucul;i3 paullo ultra lineam longos, dorso parce minute- 

 que muriculatce, nunc fere Iteves nitidula?, circumscriptione angusto- 

 deltoidece, sensira acutce, angulis lateralibus acutatis, ventrali obtuso, 

 sulco angusto basi furcato clauso tota longitudine gynobasi gracili 

 adfixa3. Corolla limbo lin. 2 lato. — Collected by Mr. Primjle on the 

 borders of the Mohave Desert in 1882, and again by Mrs. Layne- 

 Curran in 1884. 



^- -i- Basi demum lignescente perennans, paniculato-ramosissima, 

 floribus parvis sparsis saepe foliis fulcratis. 



K. RAiiosissiMA. Eritrichium racemosum, "Watson in herb. Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 226. Folia parva, cum calycibus angustis setis 

 rigidis asperata. Nucula plerumque solitaria, tenuis, oblongo-lanceolata, 

 scabrella, nitida. — This proves to be a rather widely spread species 

 on the southern borders of California. It was described from a speci- 

 men collected by the Brothers Parish in San Bernardino Co. ; has 

 now been found in the Mohave Desert by Mrs. Loyne-Curran, and at 

 Point Loma and the Cantilas range on the borders of Lower California 

 by Mr. Orcutt ; also on Santa Catalina Island by W. S. Lyon. More- 

 over, it may now be identified with incomplete specimens collected on 

 Cedros Island by the late Z>/-. Fea/e/i, and on Guadalupe' Island by 

 Dr. Palmer ; the latter wrongly referred to Eritrichium angustlfollum. 

 The specific name which it bore under Eritrichium I have replaced by 

 a much fitter one. It was not very appropriate for the described speci- 

 men, and is still less so for those which have quite sessile or scattered 

 flowers. 



* * GlomeratcE^ sat robusta?, e radice valida perenni vel bienni ; foliis 



plerumque latiiisculis ; floribus thyrsoideo-congestis mediocribus 

 (corolla limbo lin. o-\ lato) hinc inde bracteatis. (Flores in non- 

 nuUis heterogono-diraorphi : stylus crassiusculus.) 



The final species of this division are too widely different from true 

 Krynltzkla. It might be more satisfactory to found a genus for all the 

 following, along with K. setosissima (referred elsewhere on account of 

 its decidedly winged nutlet?;) ; but the various intermediate forms for- 

 bid the taking of that course. Some tendency to heterogone dimor- 



