58 BORRAGINACE.E. 



A. grandiflora, Kleeberger. Simple up to the terminal spikes, hispid: lower leaves 

 oblanceolate, the upper lanceolate, all acute: sepals broad, often 4 or 3 only, tawny- 

 hairv: corolla an inch long, deep yellow; the funnelform throat 6 lines long above the 

 short proper tube which bears the nearly sessile anthers: nutlets light gray, sharply 

 triangular, perfectly smooth and shining, the back straight or even concave. Antioch, 

 hills east of Livermore, and north of Tulare Lake. This is A. vernicosa var. grandi- 

 flora of this book, but is undoubtedly a distinct species, and may well be called Klee. 

 berger's Amsinckia, since (while a student in Yale College) he was the first to describe it. 



KBYNITZKIA. 



Sections 1 and 2 of this genus (species 1 to 6) aud Echinospermum Greenei form 

 the genus Allocarya, in Bay Reg. Bot. The following new species may be added to 2. 



K. stricta, Greene. Slender, erect and somewhat succulent: stem simple, or nearly 

 so, 6 inches or less high, glabrous or nearly so, all except the floral leaves opposite: 

 flowers very small: calyx lobes closed over the growing fruit: nutlets light gray, shin- 

 ing, numerous close transverse ridges. Calistoga. 



K. diffusa, Greene. Procumbent, a foot or less long, loosely branching from the 

 base; racemes leafy for half their length; lowest pedicel 6 lines long, the others hardly 

 a line: calyx widely spreading: flowers small, nutlets dark brown, broadly ovoid, in- 

 curved, the back with rather sharp granulations and ridges. 



K. humistrata, Greene. Stout and succulent, the branches mostly prostrate, a foot 

 long: pedicels short and thick, often diflexed: calyx lobes in fruit becoming 4-6 lines 

 long, turned to one side so as to stand vertically in a row: nutlets with minute muric- 

 ulabions and sharp transverse wrinkles which have tufts of minute bristles. This is K. 

 CaVfornica, var. subglochidiala. Probably a good species. 



K. myriantha, Greene. A diffuse, slender, prostrate or trailing annual a foot or 

 more long: lower flowers on short, slender pedicels, the others forming close spikes: 

 nutlets distinguished from those of K. Chorisiana by narrower outline, greater length, a 

 more glossy surface and more prominent ridges on the back. Perhaps the more florifer- 

 ous form of the latter species. Monterey. 



K. vestita, Greene. Distinguished from K. mollis by stout, nearly erect annual 

 steins 2 feet or more high/rather rough pubescence and dark nutlets reticulated, the scar 

 surrounded by a ridge. Petaluma. 



K. plebeia, Gr. Depressed branches a span or more long: floral leaves liuear- 

 oblong: nutlets ovoid a line long, the back rugose-reticulate glabrous, not granulate or 

 muricutate. Humboldt Bay, C. C. Marshall. 



K. Austinae, Greene. Erect, slender, simple or a few branches, about a span high, 

 nearly glabrous, except the calyx: leaves narrowly linear 1^-3 inches long: nutlet ovate- 

 acuminate, strongly keeled on both sides, the dorsal keel and margins with stout prickles, 

 the uppermost barbed. Butte Co. 



