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 Eritrichium. BORRAGINACE^E. 525 



2. Nutlets ovate-triquetrous, straight, at maturity ivhitish, smooth and polished, 

 attached by the loiver part of the sharp inner angle, the scar narrow, all three 

 faces flat or nearly so. 



6. A. vernicosa, Hook. & Am. Sparsely bristly, simple or loosely branched, a 

 foot or two high : leaves from linear to ovate-lanceolate, : corolla light yellow, 4 or 

 5 lines long, and the limb 2 lines in diameter ; the tube longer than the linear-lan- 

 ceolate calyx-lobes : nutlets shaped like a grain of buckwheat. 



Var. grandiflora, Gray. Eobust, more hispid, and remarkably large-flowered ; 

 the more exserted and somewhat funnelform tube of the corolla nearly half an inch 

 long, and the ample limb broader : calyx-lobes often combined, so as to appear 

 as 3 or 4 : nutlets broader, and rather concave on the back. A. grandiflora, Klee- 

 berger, ined. (Stamens low on the tube, and style very long, in the specimen ; 

 while in those known of A. vernicosa the stamens are borne in the throat.) 



Western part of the State, probably near Monterey, Coulter, Douglas. The remarkable variety, 

 which may be quite distinct, at Autioch, Kellogg. 



7. ERITBJCHIITM, Schrader. 



Calyx 5-parted and persistent (one species excepted), erect or closed in fruit. 

 Corolla salverform. with tube mostly short and not exceeding the calyx, with or 

 without arching crests iu the throat ; the rounded lobes imbricated in the bud. 

 Filaments short. Style short or sometimes long : stigma minutely capitate. Ovary 

 of 4 lobes. Nutlets 4, or sometimes by abortion fewer, usually ovate and more or 

 less triangular, coriaceous or cartilaginous, destitute of wings or appendages except 

 in one species, attached by the inside of the base or some part of the ventral face 

 or angle to a convex, pyramidal, or more elevated and even subulate receptacle 

 (gynobase], which when slender is usually called the base of the style. Mostly 

 hispid or hairy herbs, mainly annuals, with usually small or minute and either 

 bracteate or bractless flowers, which are white in all our species, except No. 15 ; the 

 leaves narrow. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 55. Eritrichium, Plagiobothrys, & 

 Krynitzkia, Fischer & Meyer ; A. DC. Prodr. Piptocalyx, Torr. 



A rather large genus, of N. America, N. Asia, &c., one extending into the Alps of Europe, a 

 few South American. The greater part of our species inhabit the region stretching from Rupert's 

 Land to Texas and westward. 



1. Nutlets attached by the inside of the base only to a slightly elevated receptacle : 

 small or loiv and diffuse or spreading annuals, more or less hirsute, with linear 

 leaves, the lower ones oftener opposite: flowers with or without bracts : fruiting 

 calyx rather open, except in No. 2. 



1. E. Chorisianum, DC. Diffusely branching or at length decumbent stems a 

 span or two long : leaves broadly or narrowly linear (1 to 3 inches long, 1 to 4 

 lines wide) : flowers loosely racemose, on spreading pedicels which are generally 3 

 to 5 times longer than the calyx, both yellowish-hirsute when young : corolla with 

 lobes longer than its tube and much surpassing the calyx ; the limb 2 to 4 lines in 

 diameter ; yellow crests in the throat conspicuous : nutlets roughish, somewhat 

 keeled down the back. Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham. & Schlecht. Eritrichium 

 connatifolium, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 103, fig. 51. 



Wet ground, shores of San Francisco Bay and south to Monterey. Known by the pedicels, of 

 which the earlier and longer are usually half an inch long, but the later ones much shorter. 



2. E. Scouleri, A. DC. Slender, generally upright, a span to a foot high : 

 leaves, narrow : flowers rather crowded in naked spikes (these often in pairs), 

 the lowest leafy-bracted, the rest bractless : pedicels very short and nearly erect, 



