68 [124] BOTANY. 
April 19. Bracts shorter than the calyx, ovate. Teeth of the calyx triangular-ovate, spines- 
cent at the tip, somewhat recurved. 
Sracuys Cuamissonis, Benth. 1.c. Hill-sides, Napa Valley, California; April 26. 
BORAGINACEA. 
LirHosperMum (Batscn1a) canescens, Lehm. Asperif. 2, p. 305? Hill-sides, Grass Valley, 
California; May 20. Except in being less canescent than the eastern plant, we can find, noth- 
ing to distinguish this from some of our specimens of L. canescens. 
AmsINcKIA sPEcTaBILis, Fisch. & Mey. Index Hort. Petrop. 1835 ; DC. Prodr. 10, p. 118. Los 
Angeles, March 21. Gravelly hills of the Colorado, February 20. On Mohave creek, March 
14. Near San Francisco, April 3. The place of insertion of the stamens is by no means a 
constant character in this genus. In the same species they sometimes are inserted in the throat, 
and sometimes towards the base of the corolla. A. intermedia seems to be no more than 
a variety of A. spectabilis. 
ErrrricHium rutvum, Alph. DC. in Prodr. 10, p. 132. Myosotis fulva, Hook. & Arn. Bot. 
Beech. Pp. 369. Cocomungo, California ; March 17. The fruit is scarcely mature enough for 
comparison, but our plant is very like specimens of E. fulvum from Chili, and it is certainly 
Myosotis fulva of Hooker and Arnott. 
Errrricuium Catirornicum, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 130. Myosotis Californioky Fisch. & Mey. 
dnd. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1835, p. 42. Near San Francisco, April 8. E. Scouleri, DC. ap ¢: 
(Myosotis Scouleri, Hook. & eee ) seems to be a mere variety of this species. 
Errrricuium Cuoristanum, DC. 1. c. Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham. in Linncea, 1829, p. 444. 
With the preceding, from which it is chiefly distinguished by its much longer pedicels. 
ERITRICHIUM PLEBEIUM, Alph. DC. 1. c.4/$Lithospermum plebeium, Cham. & Schlecht. in 
Linnea, 1829, p. 446. With the preceding. The flowers are much larger than in E, Californicnm, - 
PrcrocaRys LINEARIS, DO. Prodr. 10, p. 120. On gravelly hills, near the Colorado of Cali- 
fornia, February 17. This species ills from all the others of the genus in the nutlets being 
pectinate — acute teeth, instead of bristles. 
Pe A CHILENSIS, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 120; var. Ghronata natalie: obovatis, plano- 
convexis ahi brevioribus. Hill-sides and wet plates, near Los Angeles; May 14. Embryo 
straight, cotyledons nearly orbicular, We find the radicle inferior (not superior, as stated - 
by Alph. De Candolle) in all the species of this genus that we have examined. P. pen- 
cillata was found in California by Frémont in his second expedition, and it is No. 516 of 
‘Coulter’s Californian collection. In this species the nutlets are somewhat panduriform, and . 
are chiefly pectinate on the upper half. The middle contracted poses is naked, and towards 
the base the hooked hairs are much smaller than those above. 
KRINITzKIA LEIOCARPA, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1841, p. 52, ” Wrosstis 
flaccida, Dougl. in Hook. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 82. Hill-sides, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus river. 
There are specimens, in a young state, of what seems to be the same plant from gravelly hills 
along the Colorado of California. We find very often but a single nutlet matured in one flower. 
Mr. Bentham makes the same remark of Hartweg’s specimens. 
OGLOSSUM GRANDE, Dougl. Mss.; Lehm. Pug. 2, p. 25; Hook. Fl. Bor. ~ Amer, 2, 9, Sb. 
Mountains, near Oakland, Gabdiocain: April 4. 
HYDROPHYLLACEZ. 
Ertopycrion TomENntosuM, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 35. E. crassifolium, Benth. 1. c. Near San 
Gabriel, California; March. 
Lcemeagos eLuTINOsUM, Benth. 1. ¢, Sonora, Cajon Pass, Mokelumne hill, etc., California ; 
var. ANGUSTIFOLIUM, (E. angustifolium, Nutt. Plant. Gamb. ,) from hills near Cactus Pass, 
in ‘the western part of New Mexico; January 30. 
