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p. 143) is distinguished chiefly by the more distinctly crenulate-denticulato 

 lobes of the corolla, a character in which it varies much. — Neutria, N. 

 Mex., at 7,000 feet altitude (155). 



Piiacelia tanacetifolia, Benth. — Valley of the Arkansas, Colorado 

 (82). (By oversight published in catalogue (1874) as sub-alpine.) 



Phacelia sericea, Gray. — Nevada. 



Phacelia integeifolia, Torr. — Deer Spring, Arizona, at 6,300 feet; 

 hairy form, but hardly, I think, P. Palmeri, Torr., in Watson's Bot. King's 

 Survey, p. 251 (181). 



Hydrophyllum Virginicum. L. — Apex, Colo. (83). 



Hydrophyllum capitatum, Dougl. — Utah. 



Nama hispida, Gray. — Camp Bowie, Ariz., at 5,500 feet altitude (445). 



Eriodictyon* glutinosum, Benth., var. angustifolium, Torr. (E. 

 angustifolium, Nutt. PI. Gambel, 181). — Nearly smooth, with a sticky exuda- 

 tion ; linear leaves with revolute margins ; inflorescence cymose in a naked 

 panicle ; short campanulate corolla 2-3" long. — Southern Nevada. 



BORRAGINACE^. 

 By Prof. T. C. Porter. 



Coldenia hispidissima, Gray (Watson, Bot. King, p. 247). — 'Nevada, 

 1871, 1872, Watson's Rep. (Eddya, Torr. Pac. R R. Rep. 2, p. 170, pi. 

 ix) ; Sunset Crossing, Ariz., 1873, Loew (160 a). 



Coldenia Palmeri, Gray (Watson, I, c. p. 248).— Nevada, 1871, 1872, 

 Watson's Rep. 



Heltotropium Cdrassavicum, Linn. (Gray's Man. p. 366 ; Watson, 

 Bot. King, p. 248).— Nevada, 1871, 1872, Watson's Rep. 



Heliotropium convolvulaceum, Gray (Bot. Cal. 1, p. 521; Euploca, 

 Nutt). — Annual, with branches a span to a foot long spreading from the 



* Ekiodictyon, Benth. — Calyx deeply -parted, the lobes or sepals not broader upward. Corolla 

 funnel-form or approaching campanulate or salver-form. Stamens more or less included. Styles 2, 

 distinct to the base ; their tips or stigmas clavate-capitate. Capsule crustaceous, small, globose-ovate 

 and pointed, 2-celled, with dilated placentas, 4-valved, i. e., at first locniicidal in the manner of the tribe, 

 then septicidal, thus splitting into four hard and thick half- valves, closed by a portion of the partition 

 on one side and partly open on the other. Ovules rather numerous, but seeds few. — Low shrubs ; leaves 

 alternate, of rigid coriaceous texture, their margins beset with rigid teeth, the base tapering into more 

 or less of a petiole. Flowers in scorpioid cymes collected in a terminal panicle ; corolla violet or purple, 

 varying to white. Filaments variably aduate to the tube of the corolla. — Gray, Fl. Cal. 1, p. 518. 



