BORRAGINACE^E. (borage family.) 261 



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

 rowly spatulate 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 

 fr 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. 



h- h- 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 (£ globe) 

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

 fornia and northward to Wyoming. 



* * Fruit more or less pyramidal. 



+• Tube of the corolla not longer than the calyx and little if any longer than the 



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



8. K. 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 tuber culate-rugose on the 

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

 Mexico to the Saskatchewan and Washington. 



10. K. sericea, Gray. Barely a 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 



