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base, hoary or strigose-kispid ; 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 



Echinospeemum Redowskii, Lehm. (Gray's Man. p. 365; 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). 



EcmNOSPEKMUM floribundum, Lehm. (E. deflexum, Lehm., var flori- 

 bundum, Watson, Bot. King, p. 246). — Twin Lakes, Colorado, 1873, Wolf 

 (697). 



Eriteichium nanum, Schrad., var. aretioides, Herder. (Cray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 10, p. 56 ; E. aretioides, DC. ; IE. villosum, DC, var. aretioides, 

 Gray; Watson, Bot. King, p. 241). — Mountains of Colorado, at 13,000 

 feet elevation ; June, 1873, Wolf (708). 



Eritrichium Californicum, DC. (Watson, Bot. King, p. 242). — Central 

 Colorado, 1873, Wolf (689, 691, 692). 



Eritrichium angustifolium, Torr. (Watson, I. c. p. 241). — San Luis 

 Valley, Colorado, September, 1873, Wolf (704). 



Eritrichium crassisepalum, Torr. & Gray (P. R. R. Survey, 2, p. 

 1 71). — 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. 



Eritrichium Jamesii, 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, 



