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entire and alterimte. Flowevs complete, liypogynous, in one-sided 

 spikes or racemes, coiled spirally when young. Calyx with communly 

 S divisions or teeth. Corolla regular, 5-lobed, with 5 stamens inserted 

 on its tube and alternating with its divisions. Ovary superior, deeply 

 4-lobed (except in Heliotropium), with a simple style inserted between 

 the lobes, in fruit splitting into 4 one-seeded nutlets. Nutlets inserted 

 on a short thick prolongation of the receptacle, here sometimes 

 referred to as the gynobase. Endosperm none, except in Helio- 

 tropium. 



Myosotis sylvatica Hoffm,, Porget-me-not, is an escape from 

 the gardens in Berkeley and Marin Co. Leaves mostly oblong, the 

 lower petioled, the upper sessile; raceme bractless; pedicels as long as 

 calyx; calyx with hooked hairs; corolla blue, 3 lines broad, with a 

 crown of 5 yellow scales in the throai; stamens inserted on the tube, 

 included; nutlets small, smooth and shining. 



LiTHOSPBKMTJM AKVEXSE L., Com Gromwell, a minutely canes- 

 cent annual with whitish flowers and wrinkled and pitted stony 

 nutlets, has been found at San Francisco, ace. to Greene. It is native 

 of Europe. 



Ovary not lobed, in fruit splitting into 4 one-seeded closed cells; anthers 

 connivent; glabrous glaucous succulent perennial . . 1. Helioteopium. 

 Ovary deeply Wobed, when ripe splitting into 4 one-seeded nutlets. 

 Nutlets erect; ours annuals. 

 Corolla white. 



Calyx persistent; lowest leaves opposite 2. Allocaeva. 



Calyx and short pedicel at length deciduous; leaves alternate . . . 



3. Ceyptanthe. 

 Calyx persistent or circumscissile near the base; leaves mostly in a 

 radical rosette, the cauline alternate. 4. Plagiobotheys. 



Corolla yellow 5. Amsinckia. 



Nutlets flattish, divergent, margined all around or at apex with bristles; 



corolla minute, white; small annuals 6. Pectocarya. 



Nutlets broad, depressed, covered all over witli short barbed prickles; 

 corolla blue with a ring of appendages or crests at the throat; 

 perennials. . . . .7. Cyxoglossuji. 



1. HELIOTROPIUM L. Heliotrope. 



Ours a prostrate perennial with white flowers in dense one-sided 

 spikes. Corolla salverform, short, with open throat; sinuses more or 

 less plaited in the bud. Anthers connivent, nearly sessile. Style 

 short. Ovary not lobed but separating when ripe into 4 one-seeded 

 closed cells. (Greek helios, sun, and trope, a turning, "the flowers 

 beginning to appear at the summer solstice.") 



1. H. Curassavicum L. Fleshy, glabrous, glaucous, the stems J 

 to several ft. long; leaves obovate to broadly oblanceolate; spikes 

 mostly in pairs; corolla white with yellow eye. 



Common along the seashore, in stream beds, and in low moist or 

 alkaline lands throughout California. June-Nov. 



2. ALLOCARYA Greene. 

 Low herbs, ours annuals, mostly in low wet ground. Leaves 

 linear or narrow, entire, the lowest always opposite. Corollas white. 



