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6, Cryptantha Lehn. 
Annual usually branching herbs with alternate entire leaves, or the 
lowermost sometimes opposite. Flowers perfect, regular, borne in one-sided 
coiled cymes. Calyx 5-lobed, increasing somewhat in fruit. Corolla white 
the limb saucer-shaped, the tube short, the throat closed by 6 small scales. 
Stamens 5, included. WNutlets papillose or smooth, attached to the receptacle 
in the lower half. iam pala 
f. C. Hendersoni (A. Nels.) Piper. Erect, little-branched anmals 
a, Corolla 6-7 mm, long. /. Ce Hendersoni 
O Corolla 2.5 mm. long. 7 : 
2, Calyx-lobes 2.5 mm, long in fruit, linear, frequently exceeded 
& by the very coarse hairs which cover them, 
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p, Cs affinis, | 
2 Calyx-lobes 4,.5-5 mm, long in fruit, linear-lanceolate, 
¢ densely hispid, 30 . a Le 3 
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10-30 cme tall, covered throughout with spreading hispid hairs; leaves in a 
basal rosette, the cauline alternate, all oblong, or oblong-oblanceolate, 
2-6 cme long, 2-6 mn. wide, obtuse, hispid with spreading hairs; calyx-lobes 
linear, 5 mn. long in flower, densely and coarsely hispid; corolla white, 6-7 
mn. long; PADHBCEOSNQOOM nutlets not seen but ep M. Johnston either smooth 
or variously tuberculate, ovoid or lance-ovoid, the Yack eres a 
Little Potlatch canon, Dunkle; Julietta, Darlington. 
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a. C. affinis (A. Gray) Greene. Anmals 15-30 cm. tall with 
ascending branches, hispid-hirsute throughout; leaves oblong, 1-6 om. long, 
2-8 mm. wide, obtuse, narrowed toward the base, hispid-hirsute; cymes bracteate 
below, mostly naked above; elongating in fruit; calyx-lobes linear, 2 mm. long 
in flower, frequently exceeded by the very coarse hispid hairs upon their 
surfaces, 2.5 mm. long in fruit; corolla white, scarcely 2.5 mm. long; mtlets 
narrowly ovoid, acute, smooth and shining, mottled. 
In dry ground along roadsides or in meadows. 
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Se c. forreyana (A. Gray) Greene. Erect or decumbent annuals usually 
diffusely branched, 10-50 cm. tall, thinly spreading-hispid throughout; 
leaves linear-oblong, or narrowly oblanceolate, 1-6 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, 
obtuse, hispid; cymes remaining dense and subzglobose in fruit; calyx-lobes j 
2-265 mn. long in flower, 4.5-5 mm. long in fruit, linear-lanceolate, acumin- 
ate, densely hispid, connivent and erect; corolla white, scarcely 2-5 mm. 
log; nutlets ovoid, very acute, smooth, shining, mottled. 
In dry soil along roadways and in meadows at low elevations. ' 
