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BORAGINACE.fi. 



Santa Cruz Mountains; Monterey Co., and southward to Southern 

 California. Also in the Sierra Nevada. June-July. 



6. ROMANZOFFIA Cham. 



Low and delicate perennial herbs with the aspect of some species 

 of Saxifraga. Leaves mostly radical (the cauline alternate), round- 

 cordate, crenately-lobed, long-petioled. Flowers white. Inflorescence 

 loosely racemose. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla broadly funnelform, 

 destitute of appendages, deciduous. Stamens unequal, inserted on 

 the base of the corolla-tube. Style filiform, entire: stigma small. 

 Capsule 2-celled or nearly so, with narrow placenta-. Seeds numer- 

 ous. (Dedicated to Count Romanzoff, promoter of the Russian voyage 

 of Kotzebue, by Chamisso, the German poet, who accompanied the 

 expedition as botanist.) 



1. R. Sitchensis Bong. Filiform rootstock bearing tubers; stems 

 slender, 4 to 9 in. high; pedicels spreading, much longer than the 

 flowers; calyx-lobes linear or lanceolate, not more than £ as long 

 as the corolla and exceeded by the capsule. 



On moist stones in shady places near the coast: Crystal Springs. 

 San Mateo Co.. Bolander; Ross Valley trail to the summit of Mt. 

 Tamalpais, Jepson; and northward. Rare within our limits. 



7. ERIODICTYON Benth. 



Low shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnately veined, finely reticulated, 

 coriaceous, dentate, and petiolate. Inflorescence a terminal, usually 

 naked, panicle of scorpioid cymes. Sepals narrow, not dilated above. 

 Corolla funnelform to campanulate. Filaments more or less adnate 

 to the tube of the corolla, little or not at all exserted. sparsely hirsute. 

 Ovary nearly or quite 2-celled by the meeting of the dilated placenta* 

 in the axis. Capsule 2 lines long or less, first loculicidal, then septi- 

 cidal, thus 4-valved, each valve with a short beak or acumination and 

 closed on one side by the adherent dissepiment or half-partition. 

 (Greek erion, wool, and diktuon, a net. by reason of the netted woolly 

 under surface of the leaves.) 



1. E. Californicum (H. A- A.) Greene. Ykkka Santa. Moun- 

 tain Balm. Shrub, commonly 3 to 4 ft. high: leaves oblong to 

 oblanceolate, tapering below and frequently above: dentate except at 

 base or below the middle, very glutinous, the areas between the vein* 

 and cross-vein lets on the under surface with a close dense felt; calyx 

 1 line long with linear lobes; corolla white or pale blue, tubular- 

 funnelform, 4 to 6 lines long; stamens and styles included. — (Eriodic- 

 tyon glutinosum Benth.) 



Highest mountain slopes and dry ridges, common or even abundant 

 everywhere through the Coast Ranges, ^\nd at middle altitudes in the 

 Sierra Nevada, often associated with the Chamisal. 



92. BORAGINACE/E. Borage Family. 

 Herbs, usually rough with coarse hairs. Leaves simple, commonly 



