WEST AMERICAN ASPERIFOLIZ®. 111 
predominant ; floral leaves ovate-lanceolate, cauline lanceo- 
late; calyces in short naked racemes and leafy glomerules : 
nutlets usually solitary, dark colored, ovate, granulate, the 
closed groove opening at base into a transverse, rather 
. crescent-shaped sear.—Sem. Hort. Hamb. l. c.; Don. l. e: 
Eritrichium cryptanthum, A. DC. 1. e. 199. 
Native of Chili: nutlets like those of the Californian C. 
muriculata, but they are usually solitary, and the foliage and 
inflorescence are different. 
2. C. microcarpa, Fisch. & Mey. Near the preceding 
but more setose-hispid : nutlets apparently always two, with 
sharply angled margins and an open groove of which the 
basal fork is divarieate and closed.—Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1835; 
on. l. c. : Eritrichium clandestinum, A. DC. 1. c. 
9. ©. coNaESTA. Erect, pubescent with spreading pilose 
hairs: leaves linear: racemes in pairs or threes on elongated 
naked peduncles : nutlets one or two, ovate-acuminate, some- 
what ineurved, carinate dorsally, sharply angled laterally and . 
murieulate throughout. Eritrichium congestum, A. DO. L c. 
192. 
The nutlets of this very distinct species were unknown to 
De Candolle. In our specimen they are too young to show 
the character of the ventral groove, etc. 
4 C.L.mNEARI&. Habit of the last but more rigid and 
stout, setose-hispid: leaves narrowly linear, greatly elongated, 
(2—3 inehes long): nutlets one or two, ovate, with obtuse 
dorsal ridge and lateral angles, densely and sharply muri- 
culate. Myosotis linearis, Colla. fide. A. DC. 1. e. 191. 
C.GLAREOSA. Erect, slender, rather soft-hirsute ; leaves 
linear, an inch long : racemes nearly sessile, somewhat loose : 
nutlets ovate, neither ridged nor angled, transversely rugu- 
lose.— Eritrichium glareosum, Philippi in Herb. Cal. Acad. 
Cordillera de Santiago, Philippi. A very well marked 
Species. i 
Issued November 19. 1£87. 
