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BOTANY. 
April 19. Bracts shorter than the calyx, ovate. Teeth of the calyx triangular-ovate, spines- 
cent at the tip, somewhat recurved. 
Stachys Chamissonis, Benth. 1. c. Hill-sides, Napa Valley, California; April 26. 
BORAGINACEiE. 
Lithospermum (Batschia) canescens, Lehm. Asperif. 2, p. 305 ? Hill-sides, Grass Valley, 
California ; May 20. Except in being less canescent than the eastern plant, we can find noth¬ 
ing to distinguish this from some of our specimens of L. canescens. 
Amsinckia spectabilis, Fisch. & Mey. Index Hort. Petrop. 1835 ; DC. Prodr. 10, p. 118. Los 
Angeles, March 21. Gravelly hills of the Colorado, February 20. On Mohave creek, March 
14. Near San Francisco, April 3. The place of insertion of the stamens is by no means a 
constant character in this genus. In the same species they sometimes are inserted in the throat, 
and sometimes towards the base of the corolla. A. intermedia seems to he no more than 
a variety of A. spectabilis. 
Eritrichium fulvum, Alph. DC. in Prodr. 10, p. 132. Myosotis fulva, Hook. & Am. Bot. 
Beech, p. 369. Cocomungo, California; March 17. The fruit is scarcely mature enough for 
comparison, hut our plant is very like specimens of E. fulvum from Chili, and it is certainly 
Myosotis fulva of Hooker and Arnott. 
Eritrichium Californicum, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 130. Myosotis Californica, Fisch. & Mey. 
Bid. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1835, p. 42. Near San Francisco, April 8. E. Scouleri, DC. 1. c. 
(Myosotis Scouleri, Hook. & Am.) seems to he a mere variety of this species. 
Eritrichium Ciiorisianum, DC. 1. c. Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham, in Linncea, 1829, p. 444. 
With the preceding, from which it is chiefly distinguished hy its much longer pedicels. 
Eritrichium plebeium, Alph. DC. 1. c. Lithospermum pleheium, Cham. & Schlecht. in 
Linncea, 1829, p. 446. With the preceding. The flowers are much larger than in E. Californicum. 
Pectocarya linearis, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 120. On gravelly hills, near the Colorado of Cali¬ 
fornia, February 17. This species differs from all the others of the genus in the nutlets being 
pectinate with acute teeth, instead of bristles. 
Pectocarya Ciiilensis, DC. Prodr. 10, p. 120; var. Californica: nuculis obovatis, piano- 
convexis calyce brevioribus. Hill-sides and wet places, near Los Angeles ; May 14. Embryo 
straight, cotyledons nearly orbicular. We find the radicle inferior (not superior, as stated 
by Alph. De Candolle) in all the species of this genus that we have examined. P. pen- 
cillata was found in California hy Fremont in his second expedition, and it is No. 516 of 
Coulter’s Californian collection. In this species the nutlets are somewhat panduriform, and 
are chiefly pectinate on the upper half. The middle contracted portion is naked, and towards 
the base the hooked hairs are much smaller than those above. 
Krinitzkia leiocarpa, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1841, p. 52. Myosotis 
flaccida, Dougl. in Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 82. Hill-sides, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus river. 
There are specimens, in a young state, of what seems to be the same plant from gravelly hills 
along the Colorado of California. We find very often hut a single nutlet matured in one flower. 
Mr. Bentham makes the same remark of Hartweg’s specimens. 
Cynoglossum grande, Dougl. Mss.; Lehm. Pug. 2, p. 25 ; Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 85. 
Mountains, near Oakland, California; April 4. 
HYDROPHYLLACE2E. 
Eriodyction tomentosum, Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 35. E. crassifoliumj Benth. 1. c. Near San 
Gabriel, California ; March. 
Eriodyction glutinosum, Benth. 1. c. Sonora, Cajon Pass, Mokelumne hill, etc., California; 
Also, var. angustifolium, (E. angustifolium, Nutt. Plant. Gamb.,) from hills near Cactus Pass, 
in the western part of New Mexico ; January 30. 
