BORAGE FAMILY. 



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leafy -braeteate; peduncles short or none; calyx sparsely setose-hispid, 

 the lobes lanceolate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, 2 or 3 of the lobes often 

 united; corolla pale yellow, very slender; nutlets brown or blackish, 

 inuriculate and rugulose, scarcely more than £ line long. 



Sandy soil along the seaboard: San Francisco. Apr.-May. 



0. A. grandiflora Kleeb. Robust, hispid, 1£ ft. high; fully 

 developed spikes 5 to 7 in. long; calyx-segments fulvous-hirsute, 

 often partly or wholly confluent so as to appear as 3 or 4, in fruit •"> 

 to 6 lines long; corolla (> to 7 lines long, deep yellow, with ample 

 limb; anthers nearly sessile, inserted very low in the corolla; nutlets 

 perfectly smooth, polished, light gray, carinate ventrally from the 

 apex to the nearly median oblong scar; lateral angles sharp, back 

 concave. 



Antioch, Kellogy. The nearly related A. verrucosa H. & A. may 

 be expected within our limits southward; it has smaller flowers and 

 sharply triquetrous nutlets (resembling a grain of buckwheat) with 

 very obscure scar. 



6. PECTOCARYA DC. 



Low slender obscure annuals with strigose pubescence and narrowly 

 linear leaves. Flowers minute, white, on very short pedicels, scat- 

 tered along the stems or branches. Calyx deeply 5-cleft, spreading 

 or reflexed in fruit. Corolla with a circle of processes or crests which 

 almost close the throat. Stamens included. Nutlets flat, thin, 

 radiately divergent, bordered at apex or all around with a row of 

 bristles hooked at tip. (Greek pectos, combed, and karua, nut, on 

 account of the row of bristles on the nutlet.) 



Nutlet not winged, tbe acute margin bordered all around by bristles .... 



1. P. pusilla. 



Nutlet bordered by a wing which bears hooked bristles only at the apex . . 



2. P. pcnicillata. 



1. P. pusilla Gray. Erect, somewhat flexuous, simple or spar- 

 ingly branched, 3 to 5 in. high, strigulose-canescent; nutlets 4 and 

 equably divergent (or sometimes but 2), 1 line long, cuneate-obovate 

 or somewhat rhomboidal, carinately nerved on the upper face, not 

 winged, the margin bearing a row of slender bristles hooked at the 

 tip. 



Shady north slopes in the hills near St. Helena; common about 

 Yreka acc. to Gray. Mar. -Apr. 



2. P. penicillata (H. & A.) A. DC. Branching at the base, the 

 branches diffuse, 1 to 4 in. long; nutlets divergent in pairs, oblong, 1 

 line long, surrounded by a wing which is incurved along the middle 

 in age and bears at the rounded apex a series of slender bristles 

 hooked at the tip. 



Napa Valley, Jepson, the only known locality in our region. 



7. CYNOGLOSSUM L. 



Ours a coarse perennial herb with broad petioled leaves. Flowers 

 blue, in a paniclefl bractless raceme raised on a naked terminal 



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