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Sea shores of the Aleutian Islands ; also at Humboldt Bay, 
California, Carl C. Marshall, 1886. The sole species whose 
nutlets, being rugulose, are not at all granulate or muriculate. 
10. A. HISPIDULA. Diffusely branching, 4—8 inches high, 
eaneseent with a short, setose-hispid pubescence; racemes 
naked or leafy-bracted : calyx not accrescent: akenes ovate, 
opaque, j-line long, carinate on both sides, the back very 
lightly so and beset with a minute muriculation, the trans- 
verse rugule few and not prominent; scar almost basal, 
ovate-oblong. 
From the San Bernardino Mountains, Cal. (Parish, No. 
1470) northward to Oregon (T. J. Howell), referred to * Eri- 
trichium Californicum,” from which plant it differs in its rough 
pubescence, and muriculate rather than granulate akenes. 
11. A. Cusrckrr. Size and habit of A. hispidula, but ra- 
cemes more open and leafy, the pubescence equally copious 
but more appressed: nutlets vitreous-shining, ovate-oblong, 
4-line long, carinate ventrally only, the back with crowded 
depressed rugz and few tuberculations: scar almost basal, 
narrowly linear and sharp-edge 
Union County, Oregon, 1883, W. C. Cusick, also at Reno, 
Nevada, 1884, Mrs. Curran. Exactly like the preceding in 
aspect, differing from it in the character of its nutlets, the 
sear of which is altogether peculiar. There is a South Ameri- 
ean species quite like these two new ones in general appear- _ 
ance, but with very dissimilar nutlets.* 
* A. PROCUMBENS. Nutlets ovate-trigonous, rugule rising here and 
there into sharp points, scar infra-medial, deltoid in outline and exca- 
vated.— Eritrichium procumbens, DC. 1. e.; Plagiobothrys procumbens, Gray 
le., also 
A. HUMILIS = Myosotis humilis, Ruiz & Pavon. Fl. Per. ii. 5; E. ? humile, 
T l. c., and 
a ton Eritrichium sessilifolium DC. 1. e 
All are considered good species by Dr. Philippi bs as a resident 
Chilian botanist has the best means of knowing: but, in our herbaria 
they appear to be separated on rather slight grounds and may eventually 
be united under the specific name žumilis, that being the oldest 
Issued February 26, 1887. 
