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2. Eritrichium glomeratum, DG. 



Eritrichium glomeratum, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 131 ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 140. 

 Myosotis glomerata, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 112; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Ain. 2, p. 82, t, 162. 

 Oynoglossum glomeratum, Pursh, Fl. 2, p. 729. 



Hab. Interior of Oregon and Washington Territory ; eastward to 

 the Great Bend of the Missouri, and southward along the mountains 

 to New Mexico. — The southern plant has the fruit more depressed, 

 and the carpels shorter in proportion to the breadth. It may prove 

 to be a distinct species. 



3. Eritrichium pterocaryum, Torr. (Tab. 13, B.) 



E. annaum; caule pilis adpressis canescente erecto basi simplici; foliis 

 spathulato-linearibus hispidis; racemis terminalibus plerumque bifidis 

 ebracteatis vel remote bracteatis ; floribus sessilibus ; calycis laciniis 

 ovatis acutis hispidis ; corolla parvida caduca, lobis obovatis emar- 

 ginato-obtusis ; nuculis margins alato supra medium dentato cinctis, 

 dorso scabro planiuscido. 



E. pterocaryum, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 142. 



Hab. Walla-Walla River, Washington Territory. Also found by 

 Dr. Bigelow and Mr. C. Wright in New Mexico, near the Rio Grande. 

 — Plant about a span high, erect, branching from near the base, clothed 

 with short grayish hairs, which are mostly tuberculate at the base. 

 Leaves half an inch to an inch long, and one or two lines wide, obtuse. 

 Racemes scorpioid, densely flowered. Flowers very small. Calyx 

 hispid ; the lobes linear-lanceolate, erect, and somewhat elongated in 

 fruit. Corolla apparently white, with a narrow tube, furnished at 

 the throat with five minute protuberances which alternate with the 

 stamens. Anthers nearly sessile, oblong, obtuse. Fruit consisting 

 of four nutlets, one of which is usually apterous, the other strongly 

 winged; the wings being as broad as the body, radiatingly striate 

 and crenately toothed on the margin. 



