Amsmckia. BORRAGINACE^. 197 



are generally much shorter than the elongated linear subtending leaves and forming a long 

 virgate leafy spike : nutlets less or slightly rugose on the back, at most a line and a half 

 long. — Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado, 102 ; Gray, 1. c. E. rjlomeratum, Gray in Am. Jour. 

 Sci. ser. 2, xxxiv. 225. E. vinjatum, Porter in Ilayden Rep. 1870, 479. — Along the base and 

 eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains up to 8000 feet, Colorado, Pairy, Hall, Porter, &c. A 

 well marked form, clearly biennial. 



-K- -J— Tube of the salverform corolla longer than the cah-x, and twice or thrice the length of the 

 lobes; the ring within (at base of the tube) inconspicuous and truncate, its glands indistinct; 

 crests of the throat largo, often elongated : anthers linear-oblong: style long and liliforra: silky- 

 caucscent perennials, with contracted thyrsoid intiorescence. — § Pstudomyusutis, A.DU. 



E. fulvocanescens, Gray. A span or so high, cespitose : leaves linear-spatulate or 

 oblanceolate, silky-strigose or even tomentose ; the lower with bright white and soft hairs ; 

 the upper and the thyrsoid glomerate inflorescence and calyx with fulvous-yellow more 

 hirsute hairs and some hispid bristles : corolla white : nutlets roughish or granulated. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. x. 91, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. E. (jlomeratum, var. ? fulvocanescens, Watson, Bot. 

 King, t. 23, fig. 7. — Mountains of New Mexico (Fendler, &c.) to those of Nevada, and north 

 to Wyoming. Habit of the dwarf and hoary forms of the preceding species, with longer 

 corolla, style, and anthers of the next. 



E. leucopheeum, A. DC. A span to a foot high, many-stemmed from the lignescent 

 base or root : leaves silky-strigose and silvery-canescent, lanceolate and linear, acute : 

 spicate-glomerate inflorescence and calyx hirsute and hispid with sijrcading whitish or yel- 

 lowish hairs and slender bristles : corolla cream-colored or yellow : style very long : nutlets 

 ovate-triquetrous, smooth and polished, ivory-like, large (1^ or 2 lines long) : gynobase very 

 slender. — Gray, 1. c. Mijosotts leucopltcca, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. ii. 82, t. lOo. — Barren grounds, 

 interior of British Columbia and Oregon, Southern Utah, and near Mono Lake, E. Cali- 

 fornia. Anthers (always?) borne on the tube of the corolla close below the throat. 

 RocHELiA PATENS, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 44, founded on a specimen collected by 



Wijeth on " Flat-Head River" in the Rocky Mountains, would seem to be an Eritrichium, but 



has not been identified, nor is the specimen to be found in the Academ3''s herbarium. 



12. AMStNCKIA, Lehm. (In memory of Wm. Amsincl; a burgomaster 

 of Hamburg aud benefactor of the botanic garden.) — Rough-hispid annuals (W. 

 N. American and one Cliilian) ; with oblong or linear leaves, and scorpioid-spicate 

 flowers, sometimes the lowest and rarely (in the last species) all leai'y-bracteate ; 

 the corolla yellow, slender, with open throat, either wholly naked or with minute 

 bearded crests. Stout bristles of the herbage commonly with pustulate-dilated 

 base. Calyx-lobes in several species disposed to be occasionally united 2 or 3 

 together almost to the top. Flowers in most species all heterogone-diinorphous, at 

 least in the insertion of the stamens ; when these are high the throat of the corolla 

 is quite naked. — Lehm. Del. Sem. Hamb. 1831, 7 ; Fisch. & Mever, Ind. Sem. 

 Petrop. 183.-), (1) 26; DC. Prodr. x. 117; Benth. & Hook. Gen. [i. 851. 



§ 1. Nutlets (resembling those oi Eritrichium hncophceum, which is peculiar in 

 its long and yellow corolla) ovate-triquetrous, straight, at maturity very smooth 

 and polished, attached at the lower part of the sharp inner angle by a narrow 

 scar, all three faces plane or nearly so. 



A. vernicosa, Hook. & Arn. A foot or more high, erect, sparsely setose-hispid : 

 leaves from linear to ovate-lanceolate : tube of the light yellow corolla slightly longer 

 than the calyx. — Bot. Beech. 370 ; DC. 1. c. ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. -54, & Bot. Calif, 

 i. 525. — California, near the coa.st, Douglas, Coulter, &c. Nutlets almost 2 lines long, in 

 shape resembling a grain of buckwheat. 



Var. grandiflora, Gray, Robust, strongly setose-hispid, remarkably large-flowered, 

 the more exserted and funnelform tube of the corolla almost half an inch long, and the 



limb ample: nutlets broader, rather concave on the back. — Bot. Calif. 1. c!^ Lower 



Sacramento, at Antioch, Ktllojfj. 



