Family BORAGINACEA Phi 
2. Lappula texana (Scheele) Britton. 
Lappula cupulata (A. Gray) Rydb. 
Common in the western part of the state. Alliance; Aten; Box Butte 
county; Perkins county; Thedford; Valentine. 
3. Lappula occidentalis (S. Wats.) Greene. 
In dry, sandy places in the western part of the state. Belmont; 
Deuel county; Phelps county; Pine Ridge; Valentine. 
4. Lappula virginiana (L.) Greene. 
In woods and thickets, mostly in the eastern part of the state. Da- 
kota county; Pishelville; Republican City; Weeping Water. 
5. Lappula deflexa (Whal.) Garcke. 
In woods and thickets in the western part of the state. Chadron; 
Beaver creek; Plummer Ford. 
6. Lappula floribunda (Lehm.) Greene. 
In the western part of the state, mostly in plum thickets. Banner 
county; Crawford; Pine Ridge. 
7. Lappula scaberrima Piper. 
In sandy soil in the western part of the state, according to Ryd- 
berg’s Flora of Colorado. 
4. Allocarya. 769. 
1. Allocarya scopulorum Greene. 
Western Nebraska, according to Britton’s Manual. 
5. Cryptanthe. 769. 
Nutlets unlike, 3 muricate and 1 smooth. 1. C. crassisepala. 
Nutlets alike, all smooth and shining. 2. C. fendleri. 
1. Cryptanthe crassisepala (T. & G.) Greene. 
In dry soil in the northwestern part of the state. Belmont; Deuel 
county; Hat Creek basin; Thedford. 
2. Cryptanthe fendleri (A. Gray) Greene. 
On high, dry plains and in the foot-hills and bad-lands in the north- 
western part of the state. Banner county; Harrison; Hat Creek 
basin; Sheridan county; Thedford. 
6. Oreocarya. 770. 
Corolla tube about equal to the calyx lobes, not exserted. 
Nutlets smooth, polished, brown. 1. O. suffruticosa. 
Nutlets rough, tubereled or wrinkled. 
Inflorescense a broad, open, round-topped thyrsus; its branches 
usually again branched. 
Plants light yellowish-green; nutlets winged, regularly 
wrinkled. 2. O. hispidissima. 
Plants dark green; nutlets merely acute-angled, irregulariy 
wrinkled. 3. O. thyrsiflora. 
Inflorescense a narrow or spike-like thyrsus, if more open the 
branches simple. 
Plants rough-hairy, over 1.5 dm high; corolla 6-10 mm. broad. 
4. O. glomerata. 
Plants silvery appressed-pubescent; less than 1.5 dm. high; 
corolla 4-6 mm. broad. 5. O. sericea. 
Corolla tube much longer than the calyx lobes, long exserted. 
6. O. fulvocanescens. 
