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BORAGINACEAE. 



EHRETIA P. Br. Civ. & Nat. Hist. Jam. 168 (1755)- 

 Ehretia elliptica DC. Prodr. 9: 503 (1845). 



About Corpus Christi, altitude 15-40 feet. Usually a bush or small 

 tree, but occasionally a tree 30 feet high and over a foot in diameter. 

 Often planted at Corpus Christi. 



March 26 (1502); type locality, "Mexico," collected by Berlandier. 



HELIOTROPIUM L. Sp. PL 130 (1753). 

 Heliotropium Curassavicum L. Sp. PL 130 (1753). 



Very plentiful in the " Flats" at Corpus Christi, at sea level, growing 

 ing in dense tufts, with stems 1-3 feet long. 



April 2 (1516); type locality, "in Americae calidioris maritimis." 

 Heliotropium tenellum (Nutt.) Torr.; Marcy's Rep. Expl. Red 

 river, 304, /. 14 (1853). 



Lithospermum tenellum Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 5: 189 



(1837.) 



On summits of ridges about Kerrville, altitude 2000 feet ; abundant. 

 June 18 (1875); tv P e locality, prairies of the Red river. 



LAPPULA Moench, Meth. 416 (1794). 



[EcHiNOSPERMUM Sw. ; Lehm. Asperit. 113(1818).] 



Lappula Texana (Scheele) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5 : 273 (1894). 



Cynoglossum pilosum Nutt. Gen. i: 114 (1818), not R. & P. 



Echinospermum Texanum Scheele, Linnaea, 25 : 260(1852). 



Echinospermum Rodoivskii var. cupitlatum A. Gray, in Brew. - 



Wats. Bot Cal. i: 530 (1876). 



Lappula pilos a A. S. Hitchc. Spring. Fl. Manhattan 30 (1894). 

 At San Antonio along the tracks of the S. P. R. R., altitude 600 feet. 

 April 17 (1585); from the type locality. 



ONOSMODIUM Michx. FL Bor. Am. i : 132 (1803). 



Onosmodium Bejariense DC. Prodr. 10: 70 (1846). 



In rich, shaded ground on a hillside along Bear Creek, and in a 

 similar situation four miles north of Kerrville, altitude 1800 feet, were 

 collected a few plants referred to this species. It may be a distinct 

 species, but until more material comes to hand it cannot well be sepa- 

 rated. 



April 30 (1682); type locality, North Mexico, near Bejar. 



