. Synoptical flora of North America. Botany; Gamopetalae. Echinospermum. 189 » Racemes panicled, leafy-bracteate only at base, minutely bracteate or bractless above: slender pediccN recurved or deflexed in fruit:'calyx-lobes lanceolate or oblong, shorter than the fruit, and at length redexed under it: soar of tlie nutlets ovate ur triangular, medial or infra-medial: gynobase short-pj-ramidal: biennials or annuals, some perhaps perennials, pubescent or hirsute, not hispid. M— Corolla short-funnelform (blue); the tube surpassing the calyx, about the length of the lobes. i-E. difFd
. Synoptical flora of North America. Botany; Gamopetalae. Echinospermum. 189 » Racemes panicled, leafy-bracteate only at base, minutely bracteate or bractless above: slender pediccN recurved or deflexed in fruit:'calyx-lobes lanceolate or oblong, shorter than the fruit, and at length redexed under it: soar of tlie nutlets ovate ur triangular, medial or infra-medial: gynobase short-pj-ramidal: biennials or annuals, some perhaps perennials, pubescent or hirsute, not hispid. M— Corolla short-funnelform (blue); the tube surpassing the calyx, about the length of the lobes. i-E. difFdsmn, LehlU. A foot or so high: leaves oblong-lanceolate; or the lowest spatu- late, narrowed at base into long wing-margined petioles ; the upper sessile, from oblong- lanceolate to ovate or cordate, passing into small bracts : racemes commonly loose and spreading: fruiting pedicels 3 to 5 lines long: limb of tlie bright blue corolla from half inch in diameter to much smaller: style slender : fruit a globose bur; the nutlets 3 lines long, densely muriculate-scabrous, rather sparsely armed throughout with long and flat- tened prickles ; the scar large and broadly ovate: gynobase broadly pyramidal. — Pug. ii. 2o, & in Hook. Fl. ii. 83. E. nervosum, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 146, fig. 42. E. dfflexum, ya,, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 541, in part. —Open woods, &c., Oregon, and California, ^lon^th^ Sierra Xevada, where it is common. •)— +-' Coro^prmtate(tTom blue to nearlj- white); its tube shorter than the calyx and the lobes. " B. floribundum, Lelim., 1. c. Rather strict, 2 feet or more high, or sometimes smaller: leaves from oblong- to linear-lanceolate; the lowest tapering into margined petioles: racemes numerous, commonly geminate and in fruit rather strict: nutlets with elongated triangular back naked (2 lines long), merely scabrous ; and the margin armed with a close row of flat subulate prickles, their bases often confluent; scar smaller
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