GENUS 3. BORAGE FAMILY. 
5. Lappula defléxa | Wahl.) Garcke. Nod- 
ding Stickseed. Fig. 3515. 
Echinospermum defierum var. americanum A, Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 224. 1882. 
Lap pula defiera Garcke, Fl. Deutsch. Ed. 6,275. 1863. 
Bae a americana Rydberg, Bull. Torr. Club 24: 294. 
1897. 
Annual, rough-puberulent; stem slender, erect, 
paniculately branched, 1°-3° high, the branches 
spreading or ascending. Leaves oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, mostly narrowed at both ends, 2—4' long, 
23-6” wide, the lower petioled, the upper sessile; 
racemes slender, many-flowered; pedicels slender, 
2”~4" long. deflexed in fruit: corolla white or 
bluish, about 1” broad; fruit pyramidal, about 2” 
broad; nutlets keeled, papillose-tuberculate on the 
back, rarely with a few prickles on the keel. the 
margins armed with a single row of flat prickles, 
these sometimes few. 
In thickets. Quebec to Manitoba, British Columbia, 
Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming. Also in Europe and 
Asia. May-Aug. 
4. ALLOCARYA Greene, Pittonia, 1: 12. 1887. 
Mostly annual low herbs. with linear entire leaves, the lowest often opposite, and small 
flowers in terminal spikes or racemes. Pedicels thickened at the summit. persistent. Calyx 
5-divided, persistent, the segments narrow. Corolla salverform, white, yellow in the throat. 
Stamens included. Ovary 4-divided: style short. Nutlets crustaceous, smooth, or rough, 
attached ai their base or below the middle to the receptacle, the scar of attachment concave 
or raised. [Greek. different nuts.] 
TS a) About 25 species, natives of western North Amer- 
: ica. Type species: Aliocarya Iithocarya (A. Gray) 
: Greene. 
1. Allocarya scopulérum Greene. Moun- 
tain Allocarya. Fig. 3516. 
Eriirichium californicum var. subglochidiatum A. 
Gray, Bot. Cal. 1: 526. In part. 1876. 
Allocarya scofulorum Greene, Pittonia 1: 16. 1887. 
Somewhat succulent, pubescent with scattered 
stiff appressed hairs. branched. the slender 
spreading branches 1-8 long. Leaves 6-18” 
long, 1-13” wide, sessile or very short-petioled; 
flowers about 1” broad, distant. borne in most of 
the amnils. very shori-pedicelled; floral bracts 
similar to the leaves, but shorter; calyx segments 
linear-lanceolate; nutlets reticulate on the back, 
lightly grooved on the ventral side. 
Western Nebraska to Montana, Wyoming and 
Colorado. June—Sept. 
5. CRYPTANTHA Lehm. Sem. Hort. Hamburg. 1832. F. & M. Ind. Sem. 
Hort. Petrop. 2: 35. 1836. 
[Kayniizeia F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 7: 32. 1841.] 
Low annual setose or hispid branched herbs. with narrow alternate entire leaves, and 
small mostly white flowers, in scorpioid bractless or bracteolate spikes. Calyx 5-parted or 
5-cleit. at length deciduous from the spike, the lobes or segments erect. mostly connivent in 
fruit. Corolla small, funnelform, usually with 5 scales closing the throat. the lobes imbri- 
cated in the bud. Stamens included; filaments short. Ovary 4-divided; style short; stigma 
capitellate. Nutlets erect, rounded on the back, not keeled, the margins obtuse, acute or 
wing-margined, attached laterally to the conic or elongated receptacle, the scar of attach- 
ment mostly longer than broad. [Greek. hidden-flowered.] 
‘About 50 species, natives of North and South America, mostly of the western United States. 
Type species: Cryfiantha glomerata Lehm. 
Nutlets, at least some of them, with short processes. 1. C. crassisepfala. 
All four nuilets smooth and shining. 2. C. Fendieri. 
