126 ERYTHEA. 
Plentiful in low places in meadows and fields about 
Monterey, California. It may probably be found to be one 
of the components of the Myosotis Chorisiana of Hooker 
in the Botany of Beechey’s Voyage, but it is not the plant 
on which Chamisso founded his species; for that was the 
well known Allocarya Chorisiana of the San Francisco region. 
The two plants are somewhat nearly alike in aspect; but the 
nutlets of the new species are very unlike those of A. 
Chorisiana, and far more nearly resemble those of A. 
Hickmani. 
Calliprora scabra. Seldom more than 6 or 8 inches 
high, the margins of the 1 or 2 leaves, and also the scape 
and pedicels in lines distinctly and somewhat retrorsely 
scabrous-serrulate: perianth with broad obtuse or retuse 
segments: forks of the filaments very slender and erect: 
anthers white. 
Var.? anilina. Only slightly scabrous-serrulate; the 
very slender pedicels scarcely at all soand purplish: anthers 
Both these plants are common in the middle Sierra 
Nevada of California. They have long been recognized by 
me as wholly distinct from the Coast Range type of this 
genus. The question has been, whether in the Sierra we 
have a single variable species, or whether we have two or 
three; and this question still remains. The form with white 
anthers I have placed as the type of the species for the 
reason that the almost prickly roughness is most pronounced 
in this; but the plant with intensely blue anthers is that 
which at a glance looks still more unlike C. ixioides. 
