Echinospcrmnm. BORIIAGINACE^O. r,20 



15. E fulvocanescens, dray, I. c. ])inVrs from the proccdinrr in tlio ncrcn- 

 ma c..csp,t,<.so roots, softer silky-.stri.oso hairiness of the leaves, and iLr -Mneius- 

 ye Icnv ha.rs ol the calyx tnI>o of corolla longer than the calyx, 'twice or thn 0^0 

 length oi Its own lobes (hmb 3 or 4 linos in diameter): nutkts granulate-roiHi 

 ened. — E. glomeratum, var. (?) fulvocanescens, Watson 1 c ^ 



theS aZ'thfnLt ''^'"''' '" ""'^ ''''^'•^° ^"^ '^^''•""•^'- ^ntcnncdiato in aspect between 



n f?^; ,^'/®"<;°P^^"°^' ^- J^^- rnronnial, and ahnost woo.ly at hase, a span to 

 a foot Ingh m t.dts, silvery-canescent and somewhat strigose : loaves lanceola an 

 linear, acute: spicato-glomerato iniloresceneo and calyx" hirsute am Ti if wj 



low!) corolla exceeding the calyx and twice or thrice the length of its lobes • stvlo 

 very long: nut ets ^^Jitish, ivory-like, smooth an.l polished in to 2 lint on.) - 

 Myosotis kncnphcea, Dougl. in Hook. 1. c. t. 1G3 V J •'^ ^ ^"i^ long;. — 



deS'^f ^ii^irnt^tn^ffi, 'Z.^'"^'' '''^ '^ «''"^^-" U^^'>' --^-'^ the bor- 



* * * * 



L,. ;/ "^^'-''^ "^'-'-""^^^ ''^^'''. ^f^«^ &y ^/'^^z- «'/../« lem;(h to the subulate cjyno- 

 ;, L f / . '^ ««'-;-o"^ .7^00.6 /m^;«,^ a 7ttor. or less wUhned base, one of them 

 vnihont lateral angles (as in 9 c£- 10), the other three with their lateral anale, 



17. E pterocaryum, Torr. Slender annual, hirsute, loosely branching, loaves 

 linear or the lowest spatulate : flowers in naked and nmstly brLtle s Sina or 

 ,X";!'n "''"V^i^"'/ -1^-^?^- '^^^l-^S - in fnnt oiato,en;Lh;tl"^^^ 

 Itt. King^^^^^^^^ Wilkes Exp. 415, t. 13 B^Watson, 



8. ECHINOSPERMUM, Rwartz. Stickseed. 

 Calyx 5-parted, persistent, spreading or roflexcd in fruit. Corolla short-salver- 

 iorm and with conspicuous arching crests at the throat. Short filaments style 

 ovary, &c^, as in EriiricUum. Nutlets 4, erect, attached by their ventral ainde for 

 most of heir length to a subulate or broadly pyramidal gynobase, the side^ sur- 

 rounded by one or more rows of rigid prickles with backwardly barbed (glochidiate) 

 tips, either distinct or confluent into a border or wing, the back unarmed or some- 

 times similarly prickly, -forming a bur, wliich is carried in the wool and hair of 

 animals. — DC. ]. c 



1. E. Redowskii, Lehm. Annual, roughish hirsute, a span to a foot or tM'o 

 h gh, much branched : leaves linear, lanceolate, or the lower somo^^dlat spatulate 

 ol)tuse; the upper becoming bracts of the loose leafy .pikes Tlo^^^^ 

 merely spreading, stout, shorter than the narrow and at lon'-Mh uno 1 l n^ 



cdyxwhich.mostly exceed the fruit: corolla small, a line".r two I "e .^^^^^ 

 lets bordere,! by a single row of su],ulate barbed prickles, their bases 7,fte broad- 

 ened and more or loss confluent; the back and si<los thickly bosot witi m 3ar 

 sharp points or tubercles; scar and gynobase slender. - A'. Rilnu.kii ar W 



