Borage Family 335 



flattened laterally, the groove of attachment divaricately forked 

 and somewhat open at the base. 



Frequent in sandy soil in the foothills throughout our range. Our plants 

 usually somewhat canescent, but otherwise not differing from the northern 

 form. 



7. C. leiocarpa (F. & M.) Greene. Commonly branched from 

 the base, 1-3 dm. high; spikes leafy bracted, the terminal larger 

 and interrupted, the lateral short and glomerate; sepals short- 

 linear, hispid bristly; nutlets 4, narrowly ovate, acute, 1.5 mm. 

 long, the ventral groove not forked or scarcely so. 



Frequent on the sand-dunes along the seashore. 



8. AMSINCKIA Lehm. 



Hispid annual herbs with erect or spreading branched 

 stems, alternate linear leaves, and yellow flowers in elon- 

 gated scorpioid spikes. Calyx herbaceous ; sepals 5 or 4, 

 by the union of 2 into 1 broader one. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, the throat somewhat funnelform with more or 

 less distinct folds but destitute of crests or processes. 

 Filaments short. Style filiform ; stigma capitate, 2-lobed. 

 Nutlets crustaceous, erect or incurved, smooth or rough, 

 triquetrous or ovate-triangular. 



1. A. spectabilis F. & M. Stems erect, 3-6 dm. high, often 

 branched at base, the branches spreading or decumbent ; herbage 

 sparsely hispid, the hairs with very pustulate bases ; leaves linear- 

 lanceolate, bright green ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-linear, hispid 

 with usually fulvous hairs ; corolla orange-colored, usually 8-10 

 mm. long, the throat glabrous ; anthers unequally inserted in the 

 throat; nutlets reticulate-rugose and granulate, dark-colored. 



Common in sandy soil near the coast, and apparently passing into the 

 next. These plants have long been considered as belonging to A. lycopsoides 

 Lehm., but that is a small-flowered species which has a bearded throat It 

 belongs to the seaboard and ranges from San Francisco to Vancouver Is- 

 land. In applying the name A. spectabilis to the narrow-leafed plant of the 

 interior valleys of middle California, recent authors have clearly erred; 

 for Fischer and Myer's specimens came from the seacoast at Bodega Bay, 

 where the form we have in mind is common. February-June. 



2. A. intermedia F. & M. Stems erect, in robust plants 

 much branched and more or less spreading ; herbage hirsute and 



