J'Jnlrir/iium. BURKAaiNACK/K. 525 



§ 2. JVntlets ovate-triqnetrom, ^traujht, at viatun'ti/ tohiii.s/i, smooth and jwlished, 

 attached by the. lower part of the shar]^ inner angle, the scar 7iarrow, all three 

 faces Jlat or nearli/ so. 



6. A. vernicosa, Hook, k Aru. 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. 



Vnr. grandiflora, Gray. llobust, more hispid, nnd rcnmrknbly largo-flowored ; 

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

 long, and the ample limb broader: calyx-lobes often combined, so as to ap])ear 

 as 3 or 4 : nutlets broader, and rather concave on the back. — A. grandijlora, 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.) 



Wcstein part of the StatP, probably near Monterey, Coulter, Dowjlas. Tlie veniaikablo variety 

 which may be quite distinct, at Aiitioch, Kellogg. ' 



7. ERITRICHIUM, S.ln,ader. 

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

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

 without arching crests in 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 Avings 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 roceiitacle 

 (gi/nobase), 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 

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

 leaves narrow. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 55. Eritrichium, Plagiobothr'ys, & 

 Krynitzlcia, Fischer k Meyer ; A. DC. Prodr. Piptocalyx, Torr. 



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

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

 Land to 1 exas and westward. ' 



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

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

 leaves, the loiver ones oftener opposite: flowers ivith or tvifhont 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 (I to 3 inches long, 1 to 4 

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

 to .) 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 lino^ in 

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

 keeled down the hack. — Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham. & Schlecht. Eritrichium 

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



Wot grouml, flhoros of Snn Francisco Buy ftiid soulli to Montoroy. Kiion-n bv the iiodicols. of 

 which the oailier an.l longer are usually half an iudi long, but th.^ 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 pair's), 

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



