IfarpagoneUa. BORRAGINACEiT;. 531 



Woods, from Motitoioy to Wasliiiifjton Territory. An tuiuR\m11y Btnootli fortn from riiimiw 

 Co., Mrs. I'ahifcr Amc.1. Nutlets not seen; the moderately enliuging lobes of the ovary only 

 sparsely and minutely muricate on the back. 



2. C. OCCidentale, Gray. ALout a foot liigli, leafy to the top or nearly, rough- 

 ish-hirsute : leaves oblong or lanceolate, mostly obtuse and witii a small point ; 

 radical and lower ones oblong-spatulate and tapering gradually into a long narrow 

 base or winged petiole ; the up[)('r closely sessile and half-clasping : peduncle 2 or 3 

 inches long, bearing a small mostly forked cyme : corolla purple or violet, its tube 

 twice or tlirico the length of the short and roundisli lobes : ntitlets horizontal at 

 maturity, very convex and tumid as in the Eastern C. Vinjinicam. — I'roc. Am. 

 Acad. X. 58. 



Sierra Co. and northward, Lcmmon (in fruit), Rni. R. Burgess (in flower). 



10. PECTOCARYA, DC. 



Calyx 5-parted, persistent, spreading. Corolla very small, salverform or funnel- 

 form, with crests in the throat. Stamens and very short stylo included. Nutlets 

 widely spreading in pairs, horizontal, oblong or almost linoar, surrounded by a more 

 or leas incurved wing-like border, which is sometimes deeply cut into stout bristle- 

 bearing teeth, or is more or loss beset with stiff bristles or slender prickles, the tips 

 of which are simply hooked. Gynobase very short. Radicle of the embryo centrip- 

 etal, i. e. pointing to the gynobase. — Low and insignificant slender annuals, dif- 

 fusely branching ; with hoary strigose-hirsuto pubescence, narrow linear leaves 

 (barely half a line wide), and very small lateral flowers scattered along the branches, 

 on very short peduncles: corolla white. — DC. Prodr. x. 120; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. x. CI. 



A weinis of probably only two variable species, and perhaps of only one, inhabiting the western 

 coa-st of America from Chili to California, perhaps dilfused since the introduction of sheep and 

 cattle, the nutlets being bur-like. 



1. P. lateriflora, DC. Nutlets about 2 lines long, surrounded by a rather 

 broad and thick ex[)anded wing, which is deeply cut or parted into about 9 to 15 

 triangular-aubidato teeth, more or leas tipped with liook-bristly points. — Cynoglon- 

 snm laterijlorum, Lam. C. pilomm, Kuiz ik, Pav. Pednr.arya Idtn-iffora, linearis, ife 

 (a slender form) Chilensix, DC. 1. c. P. Chilensis, var. Cn/ifonn'ra, Torr. in Pacif. 

 J'. Hop. iv. 124, whore tlie character in the Prodromus as to the position of the 

 radicle is corrected. 



Dry sandy or gravelly soil, Los Angeles to Arizona and Southem Utah {Parry, Bigclow, he). 

 Also coast of Peru an<l C!hili. 



2. P. penicillata, A. DC. Plants very slend(!r : nutlets little over a line long, 

 with narrow and entire or rarely few-toothed wing, tlie apex tliickly beset witli 

 hooked bristles, the sides more or less incurved and naked or sometimes bearing a 

 few scattered bristles. — (' ynoglossitm pe.niciUatimi, Hook. & Arn. 



Common in sandy or gravelly soil along and near the coast. Also in N. W. Nevada, between 

 Long Lake and Soila Lake Valleys, Lcmvwn. Probably passes into the preceding. 



11. HARPAGONELLA, Gray. 

 Calyx irregular; three of the sepals distinct nearly to the base, two united to 

 near the middle. Corolla ahuost rotate, liardly surpassing the calyx; the throat 

 with obtuse crests ; the roundish lobes imbricated in the bud. Style sliort : stigma 

 somewhat capitate. Divisions of the ovary globular, attached by the base to a; 

 nearly flat receptacle, two of them apparently always abortive. Ovule nearly erect, 



