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short tube, the processes in the throat none or reduced. Nutlets ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, smooth or variously roughened. (Greek alios, 
diverse, and karua, nut, the plants separated from Cryptanthe on account 
of the different fruits.) 
1. A. californica (F. & M.) Greene. Branching herb, 2.3 to 3 dm. 
high; flowers 2 to 6 mm. broad; nutlet keeled ventrally and a little past 
the apex dorsally.—Common in low ground. 
2. PLAGIOBOTHRYS F. & M. 
Stems usually several from the base. Leaves mostly in a basal tuft. 
Herbage soft-pubescent and often rusty. Corolla white, mostly with 
crests in the throat. Nutlets ovate, keeled on both sides toward the apex 
and often also laterally margined, attached above their base or by their 
middle to the receptacle. (Greek plagios, on the side, and bothrus, pit 
or excavation, the first known species having a hollow scar.) 
1. P. nothofulvus Gray. Snow-flower. Erect or nearly so, 3 to 7.6 
dm. high; leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate; calyx in fruit circumscissile 
below the middle, the upper part falling away and leaving the persistent 
base about the nutlets; corolla 4 to 6 mm. broad.—Hills and mountains. 
2. P. canescens Benth. Branches several from the base, long and 
straggling, 1.5 to 4.6 dm. long, loosely flower-bearing nearly throughout; 
leaves oblong to linear or lanceolate; calyx persistent, its lobes connivent 
over nutlets in age and depressed.—Low open hills. 
3. AMSINCKIA Lehm. 
Herbage rough-hairy, the hairs with an enlarged base which is often 
conspicuously hardened or granular. Flowers yellow. Corolla some¬ 
what salver form, the throat with folds but destitute of crests. Nutlets 
ovate-triangular, the surface shell-like, either smooth or rough. (Wm. 
Amsinck of Hamburg, patron of the Botanic Garden of that city.) 
Corolla 12 to 14 mm. long.1. A. intermedia. 
Corolla 8 to 10 mm. long.2. A. spectabilis. 
1. A. intermedia F. & M. Buckthorn-weed. Stems erect, often 
widely branching, to 9 dm. high; leaves oblong-lanceolate to linear; 
corolla 8 to 10 mm. long, its limb about 6 mm. in diameter; nutlets in¬ 
curved, 2.5 mm. long.—Common in grain fields. 
2. A. spectabilis F. & M. Corolla 12 to 14 mm. long, its limb about 
8 mm. in diameter; nutlet somev/hat compressed laterally.—S. Cal. and n. 
4. CYNOGLOSSUM L. 
Coarse perennial herb with broad leaves. Flowers blue, in a ter¬ 
minal loose cluster. Corolla with a ring of conspicuous appendages or 
crests at the throat. Nutlets bur-like. (Greek kuon, a dog, and glossa, 
tongue, on account of the shape and texture of the leaves in some 
species.) 
1. C. grande Dough Western Hound’s Tongue. Erect, 3 to 9 dm. 
high; leaves mostly basal, 7 to 18 cm. long, on long petioles; corolla 1.2 
to 1.4 cm. long, the stamens inserted in the throat.—Coast Range woods, 
Monterey and n. 
