Macbride — North American Species of Amsinckia 7 
Leiberg, no. 11. Wasutneton: Pasco, F ranklin Co., May 29, 
1899, Piper, no. 2971; North Yakima , May , 1892, Henderson, no. 
2558: Waitsburg, May 17, 1897, Horner, ae "R146B365; Sprague, 
June, Sandberg & Leiberg (R. Mt. Herb. 
The very characteristic nutlets aaaily distinguish this widely 
distributed species. As in all species the leaves show considerable 
variation in breadth and the pubescence of the inflorescence is 
sometimes tawny, sometimes pale in color in individuals from the 
same locality. A variation in the character of the surface of the 
nutlets would appear to be of greater moment but it, like the fore- 
going variations, occurs in every degree. In the original collection 
the tessellated nutlet-surface was broken somewhat by a few irreg- 
ular elevations. Often these are so numerous and continuous 
that. they form transverse rugae; again these corrugations are 
lacking and the surface resembles exactly a pavement (well illus- 
trated by Purpus, no. 5441). The variety macrosepala Jones is the 
form with accrescent sepals. 
me 6. A. Lycopsorpes Lehm. ex F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 
26 (1836) “ve lycopsoides Lehm., var. bracteosa Gray, Syn. FI. ii. 
pt. I. 198 (1886). Lithospermum lycopsoides Lehm. Pug. ii. 28 
(1830); Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i aioe soe 838). — Coastal region, north- 
eee Washington gee hee Gton: Puget Sound, Swckley; 
4, Cooper; sandy r bbaeh near : Faiviaven., Whatcom Co., July 8, 
1800 Suksdorf, no 296; Olympic Mts., Clallam Co., June, 1900, 
El (M t. Ga ae 
3 Meo ae . Proce. Cal. Acad. s 109 t. 8, 
- fig. oe oe — California: jah San Nicolas tend re 1901, 
Blanche Trask, no. 58. 
The apparent validity of this unfortunately named species is a 
strong argument for the incorporation in all rules of nomenclature 
of a law invalidating this and similar pseudo-binomials. 
_> 8. A. BarBata Greene, neds ii. 192 (1894). — Vancouver 
Island: introduced in New England. — oe CoLUMBIA: 
Cameron Lake, July 15, 1887, Lome: Connecticut: Southing- 
ton, May 29, 1895, 5, Andrews, no. 474; also 17, 1897, and 31, 
1898, Bissell, it 12 and 4 
There is an account in Rhodora xviii. 23 (1916) of the occurrence 
of this species as a weed in New England. 
9. A. iwrermepia F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 26 (1836). 
A. maritima Eastw. Proc. Cal. iad ser. 3, i. 110, t. 8, fig. 8 (1898). 
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