202 BOTANY. 
base, hoary or strigose-hispid; leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate, petioled; 
flowers scattered, short-pedicelled, sweet-scented; corolla white, with a 
rotate limb, plaited but scarcely lobed, and a hairy tube somewhat enlarged 
above, and the orifice narrowed; anthers with slightly cohering tips; style 
long; truncate cone of the stigma bearded with stiff bristles; fruit of two 
globose, solid lobes, each lobe or carpel splitting into two hemispherical 
one-seeded nutlets.—Deserts of New Mexico, 1873, Loew 
Ecurinospermum Repowsku, Lehm. (Gray’s Man. p. 865; Watson, 
Bot. King, p. 246).—Nevada, 1871, 1872, Watson’s Rep.; Twin Lakes, 
Colorado, 1873, Wolf (694, 705); Pescado, N. Mex., at 7,000 feet eleva- 
tion, July, 1874, Rothrock (154). 
EcHINOSPERMUM FLOoRIBUNDUM, Lehm. (E. deflexwm, Lehm., var flori- 
bundum, Watson, Bot. King, p. 246)—Twin Lakes, Colorado, 1873, Wolf 
(697). | 3 
ERITRICHIUM NANUM, Schrad., var. ARETIOIDES, Herder. (Gray, Proc. 
Am. Acad. 10, p. 56; E. aretioides, DC.; E. villosum, DC., var. aretioides, 
Gray; Watson, Bot. King, p. 241)—Mountains of Colorado, at 13,000 
feet elevation; June, 1873, Wolf (708). 
Erirricuium Cauirornicum, DC. (Watson, Bot. King, p. 242).—Central 
Colorado, 1873, Wolf (689, 691, 692). 
ERitTRICHIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Torr. (Watson, /. ¢. p. 241).—San Luis 
Valley, Colorado, September, 1873, Wolf (704). 
ERITRICHIUM CRASSISEPALUM, Torr. & Gray (P. R. R. Survey, 2, p. 
171).—Annual, very hispid with spreading hairs; stem much branched from 
the base, branches ascending, 3 to 5 inches high; leaves obovate-lanceolate, 
rather obtuse; racemes bracteate below; fructiferous calyx ventricose at 
base, closed and contracted above the middle, the segments thickened and 
indurated on the back, finely pilose on the margins, with large, strong, 
hispid hairs on the back; nutlets heteromorphous, ovate, convex on the 
_ back, three of them muricate-granulate, the fourth larger and nearly or 
quite glabrous —Colorado, 1873, Wolf. 
Erirricuium Jamesu, Torr. (Marcy’s Rep. p. 294).—Hirsute, much 
branched from a suffruticose base; branches 6 to 10 inches high; leaves 
linear-lanceolate, tapering to the base, 1 to 2 inches long; spikes terminal, 
