526 BUKKAdlNACE.E. EritrichUiin. 



only half the length of the fruiting calyx (half a line to a line long) : corolla smaller 

 than in the preceding : nutlets smaller and smoother, but rugose, broadly ovate. — 

 Myosotis Scouleri, Hook, tt Am. Eritrichium plebeiian, Torr. in Pacif. K. Kep. iv. 

 124, not of DC, which i.s an Alaskan species more like tl)o preceding. 

 Moiwl or nilliur dry Huil, Sun Fruiuinco May to Orojjuii, &.l'. liutwciiii the lual luid tliu iii'xt. 



3. E. Californicuni, DC. Slender, spreading, 2 to 10 inches high: leaves 

 mainly altenmle, small, narrowly linear : llowers very small, almost sessile, in fruit 

 scatteretl, chieliy accompanied by a leaf or bract : corolla hanlly surpassing the 

 calyx, its limb only a lino or loss in diameter and shorter than its tube; the crests 

 in the throat smooth and inconspicuous: nutlets ovate or oblong, more or less rugose- 

 roughened. — M i/dsotis ()(di/oruic(i, YisvAwv it Mcsyer. 



Var. subglochidiatiuu, Cray. Souicuhat succulent : nutlets when young more 

 or less hirsuLe or hispid (especially on the crests of the rugosities), some of the 

 bristles at length stouter and glochidiate under a lens ; the roundish carunculate 

 scar almost strictly basid. 



Si>ringy or wut places, rather common, extending through Oregon and Nevada to and beyond 

 the Hoeky Mountains. T)ie remarkable variety (whieli passes into the accompanying ordinary 

 form), Placer to Sierra Co. {KcUogij, Lcmmou), Nevada {Ifutsou), kc. 



§ 2. Nutltts attached by the middle of the someivhat concave inner face by a large a)id 

 roundish 2"'otuberant scar to a heniisjiherical or (/lobular receptacle, broadly 

 ovate-triangular and somewhat incurved, rugose on the back : low, mostly vil- 

 lous-hirsute annuals, vnth small Jlowers like those of the preceding section. — 

 Plagiobothhvs, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 57. 



* Nutlets not vitreous-shininy, the wrinkles elevated narrow meshes. 



4. E. fulvum, A. T)C. An incli or so to a foot higli, slender : leaves linear or 

 the lowest rather spatulato : spike naked, at first dense, in fruit elongating : calyx 

 densely clothed with rusly-yellow or niddish hairs : corolla 2 or 3 linens in diameter : 

 nutlets (a line long) didl, rugose with elevatotl narrow moshoa bounding minutely 

 granulaled-rougheiuHl or at length smooth surfaces, an indistinct ridge down the back. 

 — Myosotis fuloa, Hook. & Arn. IHagiobothrys rufescens, i'lscher & .Meyer, tkc. 



Couunon through the State, in open grounds, extending through Oregon, &c. Also in Chili. 



5. E. canescens, Gray, 1. c. Generally larger than the foregoing, vilious-hir- 

 sute with white or whitish hairs: nutlets larger (1^ lines long), less dull, with 

 hmger transverse but otherwise similar Uieshes and a more distinct dorsal ridge, the 

 surface either granulate with some projecting points or smoothish. — riagiobothrys 

 canescens, Benth. PI. Hartw. 33G. 



Open grounds, common through the State, mainly towards the coast, and Washington Terr. 



* * Nutlets vitreous-shining or jwrcela in-like, the wrinkles narrow and impressed 

 transverse lines mostly running unbroken from the low and narrow dorsid ridge to 

 the margin of the broad poster im' face. 



G. E. tenellum, Gray, 1. c. Seldoni a span high, hirsute with mther soft hairs, 

 those of the caly.x. only fulvous or yellowish : stems erect and slender from the 

 roflulato tuft of radical leaves: these broadly linear or spatidate lanceolate (one 

 third to an inch long), the cauline shortiM' or smaller : siddom any bracts among the 

 rather few flowers of the spike : corolla a line or two in diameter : nutlets (a line 

 long) broadly ovate. and okscurely cruciform from the abrupt contraction of base and 

 apex, cartilaginous, the broad and low transverse ridges separated by very narrow 

 impressed lines and cons])icuously muricate. — Myosotis tenella, Nutt. in Kew Jour. 

 Bot. V. 21)5. J'Jritrichium fulvum, Watson, Bot. King K.\p. 243, not of DC. 



Sierra Nevada and foot-hills, especially northward, to British Columbia and through Nevada, 

 Idaho, kc. The Iruit is very characteristic. 



