202 BOTANY. 



base, hoary or strigose-hispid ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate, petioled; 

 flowers scattered, short-pedicelled, sweet-scented; corolla white, with a 

 rotate limb, plaited bul scarcely lobed, and a hairy tube somewhat enlarged 



above, and the orifice nan-owed; anthers with slightly cohering tips; Btyle 

 long; truncate cone of the stigma bearded with stiff bristles; fruit of two 

 globose, solid lobes, each lobe or carpel splitting into two hemispherical 

 one-seeded nutlets. — Deserts of New Mexico, 1873, Loew 



EciUNOSi'KKMiM Redowsku, Lehm. (Gray's Man. p. 365; Watson. 

 BotKing, p. 246).— Nevada, 1871, 1872, Watson's Rep.; Twin Lakes, 

 Colorado, 1873, Wolf (694, 705); Pescado, N. Mex., at 7,000 feet eleva- 

 tion, July, 1874, Rothrock (154). 



EcHtNOSPERMUM FLOBIBUNDUM, Lehm. (E. deflexum, Lehm., var flori- 

 hundum, Watson, Bot. King, p. 246). — Twin Lakes, Colorado, 1873, Wolf 

 (697). 



Eritrichium nanum, Schrad., var. ABETIOIDES, Herder (Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 10, p. 56 ; E. aretioidcs, DC. ; E. villosum, DC, var. aretioides, 

 Gray; Watson, Bot. King, p. 241). — Mountains of Colorado, at 13,000 

 feet elevation ; June, 1873, Wolf (708). 



Eritrichium Calikornicum, DC. (Watson, Bot. King, p. 242). — Central 

 Colorado, 1873, Wolf (689, 691, 692). 



Eritrichium angustifolium, Torr. (Watson, I. c. p. 241). — San Luis 

 Valley, Colorado, September, 1873, Wolf (704). 



Eritrichium crassisepalum, Torr. & Gray (P. R. R. Survey, 2, p 

 171). — Annual, very hispid with spreading hairs: stem much branched from 

 the base, branches ascending, 3 to 5 inches high : leaves obovate-lanceolate, 

 rather obtuse,; racemes bracteate below; fructiferous calyx ventricose at 

 base, closed and contracted above the middle, the segments thickened and 

 indurated on the back, finely pilose on the margins, with large, strong, 

 hispid hairs on the back; nutlets heteromorphous, ovate, convex on the 

 back, three of them muricate-granulate, the fourth larger and nearly or 

 .puie glabrous. — Colorado, 187.'), Wolf. 



Ebiteichiuw Jamesii, Torr. (Marcy's Rep. p. 294). — Hirsute, much 

 branched from a suffruticose base ; branches <» to 10 inches high: leaves 



linear-lanceolate, tapering to the base, 1 to 2 inches long: spikes terminal, 



