528 BORRAGINACE^. Eritrichium. 



to the subulate gynobase. — Eckinospermum leiocarpum, and afterwards Krynitzkia 

 leiocarpa, Fischer & Meyer. Myomtis fiaccida, Dougl., at least in part. 



Common in open grounds, extending to British Columbia and across the Rocky Mountains. 

 Variable in size and appearance. 



-f- -i- Nutlets granulate-roughened. 



11. E. muriculatum, A. DC. {f); Torr. Eesembles the foregoing ; hut the nut- 

 lets are mostly larger and broader, the grooved scar when ripe wider and deeper at 

 base, and the rounded back either sparsely or densely granulate-roughened. — Torr. 

 Bot. Wilkes Exp. 416, t. 13 A. E. angustifolium, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 241, 

 not the true one of Torrey. 



Nearly the same range as the last, and not uncommon. 



12. E. angustifolium, Torr. Hispid with very stiff spreading bristles, often 

 accompanied by softer hairs, low, diffusely branched : leaves narrowly linear : calyx 

 very closely sessile and mostly persistent in the densely flowered spikes, its lobes 

 almost filiform in fruit (less than 2 lines long, not longer indeed than their rigid 

 divaricate bristles) : corolla minute, but its crests prominent : nutlets minute (barely 

 half a line long), oblong-ovate, minutely and densely granulate, the scar gradually 

 broadening from apex to base, afiixed by its whole length to the conical-subulate 

 gynobase. — Pacif. E. Eep. v. 363. 



Southeastern borders of California {Coulter, Thomas, Thurher, &c.) and adjacent parts of Ari- 

 zona ; also Lower California. 



* * Nutlets roundish at the sides, someivhat incurved at maturity, attached to a pyra- 

 midal gynobase by a shorter narrow scdient scar : calyx less hispid, not sejxirating at 

 maturity : style short : corolla larger {limb 3 or 4 lines in diameter). (Intermedi- 

 ate between this section and § Plagiobothrys.) 



13. E. Kingii, Watson. Apparently biennial, villous-hirsute and somewhat his- 

 pid : stems erect or spreading, a span high, rather stout : leaves from spatulate or 

 the upper oblong to oblong-linear : flowers very short-pedicelled, crowded in short 

 spikes or clusters, which are sometimes leafy at base : calyx-lobes lanceolate : tube 

 of the corolla not longer than its lobes, the crests conspicuous : nutlets triangular- 

 ovate, with the summit at maturity incurved, roughish -rugose on the flattish back ; 

 the scar linear-lanceolate in outline and somewhat salient, extending from above the 

 broad rounded base to beyond the middle. — Bot. King Exp. 243, t. 23; Gray, 

 1. c. 60. 



Eastern portion of the Sierra Nevada ; Truckee Pass, Sierra Valley, and adjacent parts of Nevada, 

 Watson, Leymnon. Mature fruit of an apparently decumbent form was collected by j\Ir. Lenimon, 

 in 1874 and 1875. 



-* * * Nutlets three-sided and ivith acute lateral angles, attached by the lower part of 

 the ventral angle to a subulate or narrow-columnar gynobase; style mostly long: 

 anthers linear-oblong : corolla rather large and the crests in its throat very promi- 

 nent and arching : stout biennials or peremiials, ivith thyrsiform leafy-bracteate 

 inflorescence : the cahjx and pedicels persistent in fruit. 



14. E. glomeratum, DC. Eoot biennial, or in the mountain form perhaps 

 perennial, a span to a foot high, grayish-hirsute and hispid : leaves spatulate and 

 linear-spatulate : tube of the corolla not surpassing the linear-lanceolate lobes of 

 the very bristly' hispid (sometnues yellowish) calyx, and hardly longer than its 

 lobes, the limb 3 to 5 lines in diameter : nutlets tuberculate-rugose on the back. — 

 C ynoglossum glomeratum, Pursh. Myosotis glomerata, Nutt. ; Hook. El. ii. 82, t. 162. 



High Sierra Nevada, from Mariposa to Sierra counties, thence eastward and northward to 

 British Columbia and the plains east of the Eocky Mountains : only the low and less hispid form 

 (var. humile, Gray) in California. — The two following species, not yet actually found within 

 the State, may be expected. 



