WEST AMERICAN ASPERIFOLLE. 15 
266, and Syn. Fl. Suppl. l. c. 423, as to the Californian plant 
only. 
In the lower part of the valley of the San Joaquin, collected 
by the writer near Tracy, 1884, and a year later near Antioch, 
by Mrs. Curran: also said by Prof. Gray, to occur in Mr. 
Brewer’s collection from Sonoma County. 
A. EcHINOGLOCHIN. Habit, pubescence and inflorescence 
of the last, but a coarser, larger plant; nutlets a line long, 
ovate, straight, carinate ventrally down to the nearly basal 
ovate scar, the back covered with coarse granulations and 
stout barbed prickles }—4-line high, these distinct at base or 
more or less confluent into walled reticulations, the latter 
sometimes strongly developed and the prickles themselves 
correspondingly reduced or even nearly obsolete.— Echinos- 
permum ( Echinoglochin) Greenei, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xii. 
3; Syn. FL ii. 190 
Common on moist plains everywhere from San Diego to 
Oregon. Quite variable in the character of the surface of its 
nutlets, apparently confluent with the last species, singularly 
and persistently dissociated by Prof. Gray, from its mani- 
festly nearest relatives. The species was discovered, by the 
present writer, in 1876, near the northern boundary of Cali- 
fornia, but has since proved common over a vast stretch of the 
Pacific Coast region. In transferring this to what I am sure 
is its proper genus I have felt at liberty to choose between 
the subgenerie and specifie names imposed by Dr. Gray, 
selecting, for obvious reasons, the former. 
or less: corolla 3 lines broad: nutlets as in A. trachycarpa, except that 
the rug:e are sharper and the body murieulate rather than granulate.— 
Eritrichium uliginosum, Philippi in herb. Cal. Acad.: Aryni/z&a trachy- 
carpa, Gray, l. c. as to the Chilian specimens doubtless. 
South American species with the naked racemes, large corolla, iden 
stems and whole aspect of the Oregonian A. Scouler7, but nutlets differe 
d more like those of A. trachycarpa. Whatever the vetrine 
muricatum of R. & P. may be, this plant does not at all answer to their 
description of that. 
