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2. Calyx a medio tantum 5-ficlus, sesquilincam longus, pube primum 

 rufa demum fulva seu albida sericeo-villosa ; fructifer parum accres- 

 cens lobis conniventibiis, mox supra basim circumscissus nuculas 

 semi-nudans : corolla inter affines insignis, limbo rotato 5-lobo ad 

 lin. 4 diametro : caules erecti, semi- ad bi-pedales, graciles, cum 

 foliis viridibus parce hirsuti vel pubescentes : spicoe cymne nudre 

 sippius conjugataj vel quasi paniculata", demum elongatse et graciles, 

 ebracteatoe. 



P. NOxnOFULVus. Myosotis fulva ., Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am., pro parte, 

 & Bot. Beech. 369, non Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 38. Eritrichium 

 fulvum (A. DC. Prodr. 1. c. quoad PI. Calif.), Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 X. 57, & Syn. FL, excl. syn., etc. E. nothofulvum, Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xvii. 227. Bothriospermi "? sp., Benth. PI. Hartw., 1. c. no. 

 1873. — Common throughout California and north to "Washington 

 Territory. 



* * * STiriTATi : nuculse rectiusculse, obliqufp, gynobasi depressae ope 

 pseudo-carunculam pi. m. stipitiformem induratam adfixse ; areolae 

 gynobasis orbiculatae parvulae : herbaj humiles, e radice annua ramo- 

 sissimfc, mox prostratae ; calyce profuude 5-partito, fructifero per- 

 sistente. Echidiocaryce spec, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 164, & 

 Syn. Fl. ii. 199. 



P. URSiNUS. Echidiocarya ursina, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 

 90. C;cspitanti-depressus, undique hispidus, foliosissimus ; foliis aut 

 spathulatis aut superioribus flores pleros saepe glomeratos fulcrantibus 

 oblongis ; corolla calycem vix superante, limbo parvo ; nuculis tenuiter 

 parciterque rugoso-reticulatis Irevibus, caruncula brevi. — S. California, 

 in Bear Valley of the San Bernardino Mountains, Parish Brothers^ 

 and northern confines of Lower California, C. i?. Orcutt. Sn'me 

 slight papillosities are occasionally developed on the sides of the 

 nutlets. 



P. CooPERi. Echidiocarya Californica, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xii. 164, etc. Laxe difFuso-ramosus, hispidulus vel hirsutus ; ramis 

 gracilibus sparsifoliis demum sparsifloris ; foliis angnstioribus ; florilms 

 plerisque ebracteatis ; corolhr limbo expanso lin. 2-3 lato; nuculis 

 majjis trifjonis reticulato-rujiosis, rugis acutis hinc inde dentato-muricu- 

 latis, caruncula stipitiformi porrecta. — Southern California, common 

 around San Diego and eastward, first coll. by Cooper, later by Parry, 

 Lemmon, Cleveland, Orcutt, &.C., and within the borders of Lower 

 California by Parry and PrinyJe. The stipe-like caruncle is varia- 

 ble in length. The comparatively recent discovery of the preceding 



