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phism in the whole group is to be suspected, at least in the length of 

 the style. For the last two species this is manifest, but sometimes low 

 stamens are accompanied by a still lower style.* 



■i- Fructus (e nuculis 4 acutangiilis dorso rotundatis arete conniveuti- 

 bus) depresso-globosus : perennes, multicaules. 



K. Jamksii. 3Iijosotis svffruticosa, Torr. in Ann. Lye. N. Y. ii. 

 225. Eritrichium Jamesii & E. multicaule, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 140, & Marcy Rep. 294. Canescens pube adpressa molli, denique pi. 

 m. hirsuta vel molliter hispida ; caulibus brevibus dccumbentibus nunc 

 demum erectis subpedalibus ; foliis obtusis oblanceolatis ad fere line- 

 ares ; glomerulis demum in spicas evolutis ; sepalis lanceolatis; corolla 

 subrotata, tubo calycem baud superante lobis parum longiore, fornicibus 

 exsertis oblongis ; antlieris oblongis fauci insertis ; nuculis lajvissimis, 

 singulis \ globi depressi. — Sometimes decidedly hispid in age, some- 

 times canescent only with a soft and close pubescence. In the latter 

 form it extends westward into San Bernardino Co., California, coll. 

 Parish. 



K. Palmeui. Eritrichium fulvocanescens, Watson, Proc. Am. 

 Acad, xviii. 121, uon Gray. Humilis ; foliis angusto-linearibus pube 

 strigoso-hirsuta canescentibus ; caulibus calycibusque pilis patentibus 

 hirsutissimis ; corolla angusta, tubo sepala lineari-lanceolata vix super- 

 ante lobis (parvulis) plus duplo longiore, fornicibus subglobosis ; anthe- 

 ris fere liiiearibus; nuculis opacis rugosiusculis. — Coahuila, Mexico, 

 forty miles south of Saltillo, Dr. Palmer, March, 1880, no. 8Do of the 

 distribution. 



4— -I— Fructus pi. m. pyramidatus ; nuculis dorso convexiusculis vel 



plaiiis. 



++ Brcviflora;, i. e. corolla tubo calycem baud superante limbo suo 

 (diametro lin. 2-3 .V lato) breviore, fornicibus faucialibus semiglo- 

 bosis paullo exsertis : antheras oblongtc : sepala lauceolata : nuculaj 

 ovatcE pi. m. obcompressK, dorso saltem scabro vel tuberculato, angu- 

 lis lateralibus marginato-acutissimis, ventre parum elevate sulco 

 tenui basi in areolam desinente percurso. 



= Setis longis patcntissimis hispidissima3, semipedales ad 2-3-pedale3 



e radice bienni. 



* ^^l/osnlis rjrnnrli'JIora, IIBK., would seem from the figure to be of this group, 

 if it came from Mexico (" in niontc Orizaba, Sch. & Dcppe," ex DC. Prodr.), and 

 not from tbe Quitensian Andes. Maj' not tlie latter habitat come from a trans- 

 position of the two species of Myosotis in the Nov. Gen. & Spec. ? 



