486 , BORAGINACE^E oreocarya 



CRYPTANTHE 



11 OREOCARYA Greene Pitt, i, 57. 

 KRYNITZKIA § PseudoJcrynitzUa Gray. 



Coarse perennial or biennial herbs with alternate leaves and 

 mostly white flowers on persistent pedicels, in glomerate or pan- 

 iculate, bracted racemes. Calyx 5-parted to the base, more or less 

 spreading in fruit, not circumscissile nor deciduous. Corolla with 

 prominent folds in the throat, and at base within 10-squamellate 

 or annulate-glandular. Nutlets not carinate on the back, triangu- 

 lar or triquetrous, with acute but not winged lateral angles, at- 

 tached for most of their length to a commonly subulate gynobase, 

 the scar very slender and usually with transversely dilated base. 



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

 longer than its lobes; with a ring of 10 small scales or glands near the 

 base within : anthers oval or oblong: style rather short. 



0. glomerata Greene Pitt, i, 58. Cynoglossum glomeratum Pursh. 

 Krynitzkia glomerata Gray. Grayish-hirsute and hispid: stems stout, 

 erect, 6-20 inches high, from the crown of a biennial or short-lived peren- 

 nial root : leaves spatulate or linear-spatulate, 1-2 inches long : inflorescence 

 thyrsiform, and usually dense the short and often forked lateral spikes at 

 length commonly exceeding the subtending leaves : sepals very setose-his- 

 pid, linear, 2-3 lines long : limb of the corolla 3-5 lines in diameter, the 

 crests in the throat truncate : nutlets forming an ovoid fruit, each triangu- 

 lar-ovate, sparsely more or less tuberculate-rugose on the back, with sharp 

 lateral edges, the sulcate ventral angle extending into a broad basal sear. 

 On dry hillsides, eastern Washington to New Mexico, Nebraska and the 

 Saskatchewan. 



0. sericea Greene 1. c. Krynitzkia sericea Gray. Canescent with a 

 dense silky pubescence and bristly-hirsute : stems stout, simple, 4-8 inches 

 high, from a somewhat woody perennial caudex, leafy : leaves spatulate or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse,' atjjsthe apex, narrowed below to a broad petiole, in- 

 cluding the petiole 1-2 inches long : flowers numerous, in a short thyrsus : 

 calyx cleft nearly to the base, the linear or lanceolate segments about equ- 

 alling the tube of the corolla, bristly-hirsute : limb of the corolla 3-5 lines 

 broad, the ovate lobes 2 lines long : nutlets oblong-ovate, obtuse, somewhat 

 rugose-tuberculate on the back. Dry hillsides, eastern Washington and 

 Oregon to Utah and Colorado. 



* * Tube of the salverform corolla longer than the calyx and twice 

 or thrice the length of the lobes ; the ring within at the base of the 

 tube inconspicuous and truncate: crests of the throat large, often elon- 

 gated: anthers linear-oblong: style long and filiform. 



0. leucophaea Greene 1. c. Myosotis leucophaea Bougl. Krynitzkia 

 leucophaea Gray. Silky-strigose and silvery-canescent : stems many or few 

 from the lignescent base or root, 6-12 inches high : leaves lanceolate to 

 linear, acute, 2-4 inches long: inflorescence glomerate-spicate hispid with 

 whitish or yellowish hairs and slender bristles : calyx 5-cleft nearly to the 

 base, the linear segments 3-4 lines long: corolla yellow:, with tube longer 

 than the calyx: nutlets ovate -triquetrous, very smooth and polished, 

 ivory-like, 1&-2 lines long; gynobase very slender. On sandy plains, 

 Brit, Columbia to California and Utah. East of the Cascade Mountains. 



12 CRYPTANTHE Lehm. Sem. Hort. Hamburg. 1832. 

 KRYNITZKIA F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. vii, 52. 1841. 



Low setose or hispid branching annuals with narrow alternate 



