4. M. Chorisiana. Cham. et Lehm. in L in n . 4. p . H i . Hooh. et Arn. supra, p . Ì5 2 . {non
Lehm. in Hook. Fl. B or. Am. 2. p . 83.)
The flowers here are on pretty long pedicels, while the Columbia piant 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. e t Meyer, but the corolla is longer than the calyx.
5. M . glomerata. N u tt.— Hooh. Hor. B o r . Am. 2. p . 82. t. 162.— Cj-iioglossum glom
eratum. Fraser. Pursh.
H a b . Green River, Snake Country. M r Tolmie.
I . Echinospe rmum Lappula. Lehm. in Hook. Flor. B or. Am. 2. p . 84.
H a b . Pine Creek, near Green River, one of the tributaries of the Colorado, Snake Country. M r Tolmie.
1. L ith o sp e rm um ? circumscissum ; an nuum nanum diffusum ramosum, to tum pilis
albis rigidis hispidum ad apicem usque foliosum, foliis anguste linearibus, floribus axillaribus,
calyce 5-fido basi membranaceo fructífero transversim circumscisso deciduo, corollæ
tubo calycem æq u an te ad faucem nudo, nucibus ovatis acutis nitidissimis lævibus dorso
convexis in tu s subcarinatis.
H a b . Snake Fort, Snake Country. M r Tolmie.
The flowers are very minute, and white with a yellow eye ; the calyx is 5-angIed ; 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 a t the base, and are inserted into the bottom of the calyx.
1. Amúnckia. vernicosa; corolla fauce nuda g labra, limbo tubo trip lo breviore, staminibus
ad faucem insertis, an th e ris exsertis, nucibus ovato-oblpngis acutis acute triquetris
dorso planis lævibus 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 . vemicosa, 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 Amsincliia lycop-
soldes, Lehm. Del. Sem. H. Hamb. 1831.
2. A. spectabilis; corolla fauce glabra plicis intrusis semiclausa, limbo longitudine tubi,
staminibus ad faucem insertis.— Species pulchritu d in eflo rum insignis a tque distinctissima.
Corolla aurea, limbo 6 lin. in diametro, ad faucem plicis 5, squamulas simulantibus.
Fisch. et Mey. In d . Sem. Hort. Petrop. Secund. p . 26.
We do not possess the fruit of this species, but in habit it accords with Amsincliia, and in specific character
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 Amsinchia is not, so far as we know, as yet further characterized, than by having four cotyledons.
It was noticed by Lindley in his first edition of the Introduction to the Natu ra l System, and called
there Benthamia ; as however no reasons w’ere assigned for reducing the genus of Richard of that name,
Lehman supposed it to be an oversight, and altered it to Amsinchia. Since then, Dr Lindley has bestowed
the name Benthamia on an East Indian plant. This confusion is to be regretted ; and now’ that Richard’s
genus has been ascertained to be Peristylus of Blume, it were better that Amsinchia should bear the appellation
originally given to it.
1. Cynoglossum grande {Dougl.); caule erecto glabro superne nudo, foliis petiolatis
subtus pilosis, inferioribus maximis cordato-ovatis undulatis, superioribus oblongo-lanceolatis,
racemis ebracteatis glabris pedunculatis paucifloris, calyce villoso.—Lehm. Pugill.
2. p . 25. in Hook. Flor. Bor. Am. 2. p . 85.— C. officinale. Hook, et Arn. supra, p . 152.
2. C. penicillatum; annuum diffusum multicaule basi ramosum ubique pilis adpressis
canescens, fôliis remotis anguste linearibus, floribus solitariis in omnibus axillis brevissime
pedicellatis, fructus nucibus lineari-oblongis patentissimis p e r p a ria subparallelo-approxi-
matis disco planis marginibus membranaceis inflexis nudis apice ciliatis.
This ought, perhaps, to be removed from the genus : it is so' extremely alhed to C. lateriflorun, Lam., or
C. lineare, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 332, Bridges, No. 253, and Cuming, No. 721), that it can only
be distinguished by a close examination of the nuts, which, in the Chilian plant, are pectinately toothed all
-ound the margin. Lehman places this last in Rindera, an arrangement to which we can scarcely assent.
Another plant of the same group is C. pilosum, Ruiz et Pav. (Mathews, No. 989, and Cuming, No. 1070).
O rd. X L I . H Y D R O P H Y L L EÆ . ¿?. Brown. Benth. in L in n . Soc. Trans. 17. p . 272.
HYD RO PHY LLUM. Linn. Benth. I. c.
Squamæ corollinæù, lineares, dorso adnatæ, apice marginibusque liberæ. Stamina longe exserta. Placentæ
maximæ, dorso liberæ, ovarium iraplentes, 2-ovulatæ.— Folia radicalia numerosa ; caulina pauca alterna
lata pinnatim velpabnatim dissecta. Racemi scorpioideo-dichotomi vel capitati, ebracteati.
1. H . capitatum {Dougl.) ; foliis pinnatisectis, segmentis inciso-dentatis subtus canescentibus,
floribus dense capitatis, laciniis calycinis lanceolato-linearibus ciliato-hispidis.
— Benth. in L in n . Soc. Trans. 17. p . 273. Hook. Flor. Bor. Am . 2. p . 78.
The Californian specimens have quite a different appearance from those gathered at Fort Vancouver ; both
are canescent on the under side of the leaves, from the presence of adpressed white rather soft hairs ; but these
are much more numerous in the Californian form than in the other. The hairs on the branches and petioles
are whitish and somewhat soft to the touch. In H. macrophyllum (Nutt. Indig. PI. Un. St. p. I l l ) , wbich
Mr Bentham seems to thiuk may be the same, the hairs on the stem, branches, and petioles, are longer and
much more harsh -, the under side of the leaves is only sprinkled with a few bristly hairs, and these exist chiefly
on the nerves and veins ; the flowers are either capitate (as in a specimen from Drummond found in the
Alleghanies) or they form a corymbose compact cyme (as in the specimens from Dr Short), with the pedicels
thick and stout, and shorter than the calyx ; divisions of the calyx attenuated from a broad ovate base.
NuttalTs species approaches, in some respects, to H. Virginicum, but that has a loose dichotomous inflorescence,
with slender pedicels that are often longer than the calyx; the calyx-segments narrow-linear ; and
tbe stem is much more free from hairs, often nearly quite glabrous.
E L L ISIA . Linn.—Benth. I. c.
Calyces exappendiculati. Squamæ corollinoe 10, breves, vel nullæ. Stamina corolla subbreviora. Placentce
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