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CALIFORNIA. — SUPPLEMENT. 



\_Boraginem. 



4. M. Chorisiana. Cham, et Lehm. in Linn. 4. p. 444. Hook, et Am. supra, p. 152. (non 

 Lehm. in Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2. p. 83.) 



The flowers here are on pretty long pedicels, while the Columbia plant has them shortly pedicellate ; the 

 latter presents, besides, a different aspect, and may be called M. Scouleri ; it appears very closely allied to 

 M. Californica, Fisch. et Meyer, but the corolla is longer than the calyx. 



5. M. glomerata. Nutt. — Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 82. t. 162. — Cynoglossum glo- 

 meratnm. Fraser. Pursh. 



Hab. Green River, Snake Country. Mr Tolmie. 



1. Echinospermum Lappula. Lehm. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 84. 

 Hab. Pine Creek, near Green River, one of the tributaries of the Colorado, Snake Country. Mr Tolmie. 



1, Lithospermum ? circumscissum ; annuum nanum diffusum ramosum, totum pilis 

 albis rigidis hispidum ad apicem usque foliosum, foliis anguste linearibus, floribus axillari- 

 bus, calyce 5-fido basi membranaceo fructifero transversim circumscisso deciduo, corollae 

 tubo calycem aequante ad faucem nudo, nucibus ovatis acutis nitidissimis laevibus dorso 

 convexis intus subcarinatis. 



Hab. Snake Fort, Snake Country. Mr Tolmie. 



The flowers are very minute, and white with a yellow eye ; the calyx is 5-angled ; the segments are about 

 as long as the tube, and in fruit are patulous or somewhat recurved ; the base of the tube is membranaceous 

 between the ribs or angles, and separates transversely with five teeth. The nuts do not appear to be at all 

 perforated at the base, and are inserted into the bottom of the calyx. 



1. Amsinckia vernicosa; corolla fauce nuda glabra, limbo tubo triplo breviore, stamini- 

 bus ad faucem insertis, antheris exsertis, nucibus ovato-oblongis acutis acute triquetris 

 dorso planis laevibus nitidissimis. 



This approaches closely to A. angustifolia, Lehm. (Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. Secundus, 

 p. 26), but that we believe to be a Chilian species, transmitted by Bertero, and therefore probably the same 

 with Cuming's No. 512, and Bridges' No. 311. In the Chilian plant, the flowers are almost entirely the 

 same as in A. vernicosa, but the nuts are ovate, keeled and transversely wrinkled on the back, and all over 

 minutely muricated, the points on the keel and wrinkles being much larger than the others ; of this Mathews' 

 No. 193 is perhaps a mere variety, but the leaves are much broader, and, when dry, of a blackish colour. 

 Lithospermum lycopsoides, Lehm. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p. 89, is the same with Amsinckia hjcop- 

 soides, Lehm. Del. Sem. H. Hamb. 1831. 



2. A. spectabilis; corolla fauce glabra plicis intrusis semiclausa, limbo longitudine tubi, 

 staminibus ad faucem insertis. — Species pulcbritudine florum insignis atque distinctissima. 

 Corolla aurea, limbo 6 lin. in diametro, ad faucem plicis 5, squamulas simulantibus. 

 Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. Secund. p. 26. 



We do not possess the fruit of this species, but in habit it accords with Amsinckia, and in specific charac- 

 ter with A. spectabilis, F. and M. It certainly is an extremely handsome plant, with large yellow flowers ; 

 the corollas much exserted, and the calyx thickly clothed with white and golden-coloured hairs. Leaves 2-3 

 inches long. 



The genus Amsinckia is not, so far as we know, as yet further characterized, than by having four cotyle- 



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