CROTONS OF THE UNITED STATES. 65 
vicinity of San Bernardino, alt. 1000-2500 ft., 1897; no. 3223; White- 
water, 1894; S. B. and W. F. Parish, no. 8, San Bernardino, 1881; 
Coville and Funston, no. 32, between San Bernardino and Redlands, alt. 
300 m., no. 39, south slope of the San Bernardino Mts., alt. 650 m.; Hen- 
shaw, no. 118, Santa Ysabel; Lemmon, nos. 50, 51, 53); Sonora (Pringle, 
valley of the Alta river, 1884); Arizona (Pringle, sand washes of the 
Rilleta, 1881, with oblong seeds). 
C. CaLIFORNICUS LONGIPES n. comb. C’. longipes Jones, 
Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. n. 8. 5: 721. 1895. 
Shrubby at base, erect or ascending, 3 to 7 dm. high, 
dichotomous, freely branching from the lower portion of 
older stems, branches closely covered with strongly fringed 
scales; leaves ovate, elliptical or oblong, rounded or short 
cuneate at base, apex rounded, frequently apiculate, 2 to 4 
em. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, grayish below, thinly stellate 
and generally green above; petioles rather long (1 to 2 
em.), one third to one half as long as the leaves; staminate 
racemes 2 to 3 cm. long; pedicels slender, 5 to 6 mm. 
long, bracts small or obsolete; flowers about 3 mm. broad ; 
glands large, oval; stamens 10 to 13; filaments slightly 
ciliate; pistillate racemes about 2 cm. long, 5 to 8 flowers, 
on pedicels about 2 mm. long; bracts almost as long, calyx 
lobes broadly ovate, about 1 to 1.5 mm. long; capsule 
globose, about 5 mm. tall; seed elliptical, thick, 4 mm. 
long; caruncle oblong, large for the seed. ‘* Abounds in 
sandy places, especially on drifting sand dunes in the valley 
of the Virgen and southward.’’ Jones, l. c. — Plate 27, 
ie Ae 3 
Specimens examined from Utah (Jones, 5213, Leeds, Alt. 3500 ft.; no. 
5024 aw, Copper mine, Beaverdam Mts. (Utah?), no. 5149 aw, Silver Reef, 
all in 1894; Palmer, St. George, 1875; Johnson, 1875). California 
(Fritchey, Arrow Head Springs, 1891; Orcutt, no. 1260). 
C. Cauirornicus MoHAVENSIS Nn. yar. 
Low, 5 to 7 dm. high, much branched shrub, the typical 
forms characterized by their small oval to oblong leaves, 
.5 to 2 cm. long, 3 to 12 mm. wide, densely stellate-pubes- 
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