238 BOTANY. 



BORRAaiNACEiE. 



LiTHOSPERMUM LONGiFLOEUM, Spreng. From Southern Texas to Western 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Saskatchewan, and westward to Sonora, New 

 Mexico, Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. Only on the foot-hiEs near 

 Salt Lake City, rare ; 5,000 feet altitude ; May. (838.) 



LiTHOSPEEMUM piLosuM, Nutt. PI. Wyeth., Jour. Acad. Phil., 7. 43. 

 {L. rudsrale, Dougl. Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. 89.) Stems 1-1 J° high, her- 

 baceous, strict, numerous from a perennial root, simple or branched above, 

 hirsute, sulcate; leaves 1-3' long, numerous, sessile, linear or linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate but mostly pointless, strigose and somewhat hispid ; spikes 

 very leafy, short and terminal ; flowers nearly sessile ; calyx hirsute, 5-parted, 

 lobes unequal, linear ; corolla dull greenish-yellow, 3-4" long, villous, the 

 broad cylindrical tube equaling the calyx, the lobes rounded ovate ; throat 

 naked but with somewhat prominent folds; nutlets large, 2" in length. — A 

 well-marked species, but including L. To7-reyi, Nutt., /. c, as represented by 

 an original specimen in Herb. Torrey. Washington Territory, (Douglas, 

 Wyeth.) Frequent in the lower canons, from the Washoe Mountains, 

 Nevada, to the Wahsatch ; 5-6,500 feet altitude ; May-July. (839.) 



295 Parry and 441 Hall & Harbour, (referred to this species,) are the 

 same as 627 Fender, (i. multijlorum, Torr., Ms. in Herb.,) 1562 Wright, at 

 least in part, and 442 Frdmont, 1843, having slender branched stems 1-1J° 

 high, with broadly linear subacute leaves, the yellow flowers nearly sessile in 

 terminal elongated racemes, 6" long, the tube much exceeding the linear sepals; 

 nutlets li" long, smooth and shining, (dull and scabrous in one of Wright's 

 specimens.) This seems to be the L. i?icisum, Torr., of James's collection. 

 L. decumhens, Torr., of that collection, is L. hirtum, Lehm. 



Meetensia oblongipolia, DC. Graijs Revis. Mert., Sill. Jour., (n. s.,) 

 34. 340. Stems low (4-8" high,) smooth, suberect ; leaves oblong or spatu- 

 late-lanceolate, for the most part obtuse ; calyx 5-parted or deeply 5-cleft, 

 the segments lanceolate or linear, acute, cihate or nearly smooth, about half 

 the length of the corolla-tube, which is glabrous within and 2-3-times longer 

 than the 5-cleft limb ; filaments dilated, as broad as the anthers or broader, 

 but less in length.— Leaves nearly glabrous, often somewhat glaucous, more 

 or less scabrous upon the margin with short stiff- curved hairs, and occasion- 

 ally roughish with similar hairs upon the upper surface ; panicle short and 

 crowded; flowers sometimes white. An early flowering species, growing on 



