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ceolate, in fruit 2 lines long: nutlets ovate, more than a line 
long, smooth and vitreous-shining, lightly carinate on the 
back, and also down the ventral face, but the keel hidden, 
from above midway downward, by a groove-like infolding of 
the lateral angles; scar linear but similarly hidden.—Kry- 
nitzkia lithocarya, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 265; Syn. FI. 
Suppl. 423. 
Known only from Lakeport, Lake County, California, where 
it was eollected by Mrs. Curran, in May, 1884 
2. A. Hickman. Very slender, diffuse, the filiform race- 
mose branches 6—10 inches long: calyx a line long, the lower 
on longer, the upper on shorter filiform pedicels: corolla a 
line or more broad: nutlets ovate, hardly a half-line long, 
dark colored, tuberculate but not rugulose, ventral face as in 
the preceding, namely, the scar and all but the upper part of 
the keel hidden within a completely closed groove. Sei 
Southern part of Monterey County, Mr. J. B. Hickman, 
1886. Species exactly intermediate between the last and the 
next, having the peculiar ventral face of the former, with the 
pubescence, inflorescence and comparatively large corollas of 
A. Chorisiana. 
A. CHORISIANA. Like A. lithocarya in foliage and 
pubescence, but twice as large, freely branching, the branches 
at length reclining: racemes elongated, loose, leafy below; 
pedicels filiform, 4—8 lines long: calyx little accrescent, the 
campanulate segments about a line long: corolla 3—5 lines 
wide : nutlets ovate, little more than a half-line long, brown- 
ish and dull, carinate ventrally only, the keel and scar 
closely approached, but not covered by the lateral angles, the 
obtuse rugs of the back running into more or less favose 
meshes among the numerous minute granulations: scar 
linear, short.—Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham. & Schlecht. Lin- 
nea. iv. 444: Eritrichium, DC. Prod. x. 190; Gray, Proc. 
Am. Acad. x. 56, Bot. Cal i. 525, Syn. Fl. 191; E. connati- 
