546 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
RancGE: Colorado to Arizona and western Texas. 
New Mexico: San Juan Valley; Tunitcha Mountains; Willard; Pajarito Park; 
Belen; Horse Camp; Bernal; Pecos; Santa Fe; Mangas Springs; Mimbres River; 
Mogollon Mountains; Carrizalillo Mountains; Animas Valley; San Luis Mountains; 
Organ Mountains. Dry plains and hills, in the Lower and Upper Sonoran zones. 
6. Oreocarya suffruticosa (Torr.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 57. 1887. 
Myosotis suffruticosa Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 2: 225. 1827, 
Eritrichium jamesii Torr. in Marcy, Expl. Red Riv. 262. 1854, 
Krynitzkia jamesii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 277. 1884. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘ Barren desert along the Platte.’’ 
Rance: Wyoming and South Dakota to Arizona and western Texas. 
New Mexico: Round Mountain; Carrizozo; Nara Visa; south of Melrose. Plains and 
low hills, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
11. CRYPTANTHE Lehm. 
Low, branched, rough-hispid or canescent annuals or perennials with narrow leaves 
and small flowers in terminal spikes or racemes; calyx closely embracing the fruit 
and deciduous with it; corolla white, salverform or funnelform; nutlets 4 or by abor- 
tion fewer, smooth or tuberculate, attached laterally almost to the apex, the margins 
sometimes acute or even winged. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Nutlets wing-margined..........-.--...-.----------2------0--- 1. C. pterocarya. 
Nutlets not winged. 
Nutlets smooth, shining; stems simple or branched at the base. 
Leaves narrowly linear; plants tall, usually 20 cm. or more, 
simple at the base wee eeee cece cece cece cess sees ee 2. CL fendleri. 
Leaves mostly spatulate or oblanc eolate; plants low, sel- 
dom more than 10 cm. high, branched from the 
base... eee eee eee 3. C. pattersonii. 
Nutlets not smooth; stems branched from the base. 
Racemes permanently leafy-bracted throughout. ........ 4. C. ramosa. 
Racemes not bracted except sometimes at the base. 
Nutlets dissimilar; calyx 5 mm. long; lower leaves 
narrowly spatulate. .....-.....2.-22-2.2.200- 5. C. crassisepala. 
Nutlets alike; calyx smaller, less than 4 mm. long; all 
leaves linear. 
Calyx lobes linear-filiform; plants stout, strongly 
hispid, leafy... .. ween eee eee eee eee eee eee 6. C. angustifolia. 
Calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate; plants very slender, 
slightly hispid, not very leafy... ........ 7. C. pusilla. 
1. Cryptanthe pterocarya (Torr.) Greene, Pittonia 1: 120. 1887. 
Eritrichium pterocaryum Torr. U.S. & Mex. Bound. Bot, 142, 1859. 
Krynitzkia pterocarya A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 276. 1885. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘Near El Paso.”’ 
Rance: Washington to California and western Texas. 
New Mexico: Organ Mountains; mountains west of San Antonio. Dry hills and 
plains, in the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Cryptanthe fendleri (A. Gray) Greene, Pittonia 1: 120. 1887. 
Krynitzkia fendleri A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 268. 1885. 
Type Locauity: ‘‘New Mexico.’’ Type collected by Fendler in 1847, probably 
near Santa Fe. 
