BORRAGINACE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) ili)9 



margined petioles: racemes numerous, commonhj gcminnte and in fruit rather 

 strict: nutlets with elongated triangular haclv naked, merely scalirmiH; and 

 the margin armed with a close row of Hat subulate iiritklcs, their l.asfs often 

 confluent. — E. dejlexum, xnr. Jlorlbundum, Wnison. From New Mexico and 

 California northward to British America. 



2. E. Ciliatum, Gray. A foot or more higli, caticsmitlif hirsute, the hairs 

 on the lower part of the stem retrorse : leaves toinentosc-hirsuti', ciliate, sessilf, lin- 

 ear; the lower 4 inches long and 2 lines wide; the Uj)peran incii long: racemes 

 subcori/mljose: fruit unknown. — Troc. Am. Acad. xvii. 225. (''/n(Mflossum 

 ciliatum, Dougl. Tributaries of the Columbia and eastward to the liockv 

 Mountains, Douglas. 



* * Spikes leafij-bractcate: pedicels erect or merchj spreading: ml i/r-lultes mostly 

 exceeding the fruit, becoming foUaceous and often unetptnl: scar of the nutUta 

 long and narrow: plants with rough or hispid pubescence: leaves linear, lan- 

 ceolate, or the lower somewhat spatulate. 



3. E. Bedowskii, Lehm. Erect, a span to 2 feet Iiigh, paniculately 

 branched : nutlets irregularly and minutely muricately tuberculate ; the mar- 

 gins armed with a single row of stout flattened prickles, which are not rarely 

 confluent at base. 



Var. occidentale, Watson. Less strict, at length diffuse, and the tuber- 

 cles of the nutlets sharp instead of blunt oi roundish. — 13ot. King Kxp. 246. 

 From Arizona and Texas northward. 



Var. eupulatum, Gray. Prickles of the nutlet broadened and thickened 

 below and united into a Aving or border, which often indurates and enlarge.s, 

 forming a cup, with margin more or less incurved at maturity, sometimes only 

 the tips of the prickles free. — Bot. Calif, i. 530. From Nevada to Texas and 

 Nebraska. With the preceding form. 



4. OMPHALODES, Tourn. 



Ours are dwarf cespitose alpine or mountain perennials with bright blue 

 flowers, forming the section Eritrtchium. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 2fi3. 



1. O. nana, Gray, var. aretioides, Gray. Densely cespitose in jtulvinatc 

 tufts, rising an inch or two above the surface, denselg villous with long soft 

 white hairs which are sometimes papillose-dilated at base: leaves var ifing from 

 ovate to lanceoleite : flowers terminating very short densely leafy shoots, or 

 more racemose on developed few-leaved stems : nutlets ivith a jtectinate-toothed 

 or spinulose dorsal border. — Loc. cit. Eritrichium nanum, Schrad., var. areti- 

 oides, Herder. E. villosum, var. aretioides, Gray. Highest alpine, Colorado, 

 Utah, Wyoming, and northward. 



2. O. Howavdi, Gray. Densely cespitose, sericeons-ranrsrent with ajy- 

 pressed pubescence: leaves spatulate-linear, 5 to 8 lines long, niostly crowded 

 on the tufted branches of the caudex ; the flowering stems 3 to 4-leaved : 

 cyme either dichotomous or simple racemiform, few-flowered : nutlets shining, 

 naked, with angalate-margined dorsal border. — Loc. cit. Echinospcrmum cilia- 

 tum, Gray, var. Hownrdi, Gray, djnoglossum Ilowardi, Gray. Mountains of 

 Montana and westward to the Cascades, Howard, Canlnj, Twecdi/. 



