BORliAGINACE^E. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 261 



4- K. Pattersoni, Gray. About a foot high, rough-hispid : leaves nar- 

 rowly spatulale or linear: calyx hispid with pungent bristles; its lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, less thickened: nutlet (usually only one maturing) ovate-acuminate, 

 smooth, attached from base to middle to the subulate-pyramidal gynobase. — Loc. 

 cit. 268. At the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, Patterson, Hooker 

 <$- Gray. 



5. K. Fendleri, Gray. Erect, hardly a foot high, paniculately branched, 

 rather rigid : as in the last, but leaves linear, sepals narrowly linear, nutlets more 

 attenuate upwards and attached almost to the apex to the narrowly subulate gyno- 

 base. — Loc. cit. 268. Heretofore confounded with K. (Eritrichium) leiocarpa. 

 From the Saskatchewan to Colorado and New Mexico. 



t- -4- Sepals narrow, neither thickened nor with prominent rib : nutlets very smooth, 

 shining : erect slender herbs, somewhat hispid. 

 6: K. Watsoni, Gray. A foot high : sepals of fruiting calyx scarcely 

 2 lines long, lanceolate, sparsely setose-hispid : nutlets (a line long) narrow, 

 subtriquetrous, about oblong-lanceolate in outline, attached almost the whole 

 length to the filiform-subulate gynobase. — Loc. cit. 271. Wasatch Moun- 

 tains, Utah, Watson. A part of Eritrichium leiocarpum, Bot. King Exped. 



§ 3. Nutlets triquetrous or three-angled, with acute lateral angles, attached to a 

 mostly subulate gynobase : generally biennial or perennial herbs : corolla with 

 throat appendages prominent or exserted. — Pseudokrynitzkia. Ours are 

 stout, with rather broad leaves, and flowers thyrsoid-congested. 

 * Fruit depressed-globose. 



7. K. Jamesii, Gray. A span or two high, branched from the hard or 

 woody base, canescently silky-tomentose and somewhat hirsute, becoming 

 even hispid in age : leaves oblanceolate or the upper linear : spikes somewhat 

 panicled or thyrsoid-crowded : fruiting calyx mostly closing over the fruit, 

 which consists of four very smooth and shining broadly triangular (J globe) 

 nutlets. — Loc. cit. 278. Eritrichium Jamesii, Torr. From Texas to S. Cali- 

 fornia and northward to Wyoming. 



* * Fruit more or less pyramidal. 



■4- Tube of the corolla not longer than the calyx and little if any longer than the 



lobes : a ring of 10 small scales or gland' above the base within. 



8. E. virgata, Gray. Very hispid, not at all canescent: stem strict, a 

 foot or two high, flowering for most of its length in short and dense nearly sessile 

 clusters, which are generally much shorter than the elongated linear subtending 

 leaves, and forming a long virgate leafy spike : nutlets broad ovate, sparingly 

 papillose on the back. — Loc. cit. 279. Eritrichium glomeratum, var. virgatum, 

 Porter. Eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. 



9. K. glomerata, Gray. Grayish-hirsute and hispid, a foot or more high : 

 leaves spatulate or linear-spatulate : inflorescence thyrsiform and mostly dense : 

 calyx very setose-hispid : nutlets ovate, more or less tuberculate-rugose on the 

 lack. — Loc. cit. 279. Eritrichium glomeratum, DC. From Arizona and New 

 Mexico to the Saskatchewan and Washington. 



10. K. sericea, Gray. Barely u, span high, pubescence less hispid and 

 generally canescent, at least the lower leaves, these spatulate : thyrsus spiciform: 

 pubescence and bristles of the calyx either whitish or tawny yellow : nutlets 



