W ATSON—Planis of Bernalillo County 
form corolla with throat closed by 5 short scales, in- 
cluded stamens and triangular or compressed erect 
nutlets. 
E. REDOWSEII, Lehem. 
1 to 2 ft. high; leaves linear, lanceolate, or the lower 
spaitlate; racemes leafy-bracteate; calyx becoming 
foliaceous; nutlets irregularly and minutely sharp- 
tubereulate, the margins «armed with a single row of 
stout flattened prickles sometimes confluent at base 
Var cupuLatum, Gray, with prickles of the nutlet 
broadened and thickened below and united into a wing 
er border which often hardens and enlaiges, forniing 
acup. Bear Canon. May-June. 
3. KRYNITZKIA. Fisch and Meyer. 
Hairy annuals, 5-parted or deeply-cleft calyx, short 
corolla with more or less fornicate throat. 
*Nutlets attached by ventral angle or groove 
from the base up to 1-3 or 1-2 or the whole 
length to the elevated thickened base of style. 
H. CRASSISEPALA, Gray, leaves ob-lanceolate and 
linear-spatulate; flower short-pedicled; at least some 
bracteate ; calyx-lobes greatly thickened below in fruit. 
3 of the 4 nutlets muricate the other larger and nearly 
smooth. 
**Nutlets acutely triangular, wingless, attached 
for most of their length to a subulate gumno- 
base (that is thickened base of the style.) 
K. JAMESII, Gray, (James K.) Rather stout, branch- 
ed from a woody base, silky, rough-hairy in age; leaves 
oblanceolate or the upper linear; corolla with promi- 
nent crests at throat; fruiting calyx neatly closing 
over the depressed-globular fruit, nutlets very smooth 
and shining, almost exact quarters of a sphere. Mesa. 
April and May. 
4. MERTENSIA, Roth. (Lunewort. BLUE-BELL. ) 
Ours nearly smooth, leaves oblong- or spetulate 
lanceolate, rather thick, the lowest petioled ; the corolla 
has the conspicuously 5-lobed limb with small crests in 
the throat. 
M. opLonaiFoLia, D. C. (Oblong-leaved B.) 
A span or so high; flowers in a somewhat close 
cluster tube of the corolla twice or thrice the length 
of the lobes and the calyx. Bear Canon. In the 
Spruce-Acer-Robinia‘Assn. May and June. 
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