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Stems medium, somewhat fleshy in some specimens. Flowers about 

 5-6 mm. long, pentamerous, sessile or on pedicels shorter than the flowers 

 in few to several flowered clusters which may be either scattered or approxi- 

 mated into dense, continuous masses; calyx not reaching, or surpassing the 

 middle of the corolla tube; lobes broadly ovate to lanceolate, acute, some- 

 times cuspidate, overlapping, somewhat loose about the corolla; corolla 

 cylindrical, usually showing cross wrinkles or striations, slightly fleshy, 

 the cells somewhat lens shaped causing the edges of the lobes to be crenulate ; 

 lobes slightly overlapping, ovate, acute, erect to spreading, much shorter 

 than the tube; scales oblong, about half as long as the tube, fringed with 

 short processes, bridged at about one-third of their height; anthers oblong, 

 subsessile to sessile; styles slender, much longer than the subglobose ovary; 

 stigmas capitate. Capsule oval, pointed, thickened in the form of a collar 

 about the intrastylar aperture, capped by the withered corolla; seeds about 

 1.8 mm. long, usually but one in each capsule, globose, slightly compressed, 

 yellow brown; hilum situated at the broader end in a depression, short, 

 oblong, oblique. 



Type location : Tejon Pass, California. Type not seen. Range: Pacific 

 coast states, from Oregon to Mexico. 



Specimens examined: United. States: Valley of Palms (Jones 3712). California 

 (Bolander 2698, 2849, 6381, Lemmon in 1878, Brewer 1292, in part, Bridges, Bioletti in 1892, 

 Wright in 1853-56, Rattan 293, Newberry), Mt. Tamalpais (Jepson in 1892, Chesnut in 

 1887), Cuyamaca (Hitchcock in 1915), Vacaville (Jepson 3b; 3c); Napa Mts. (Jepson 4a), 

 Santa Cruz Mts. (Hitchcock 205), Sequoia Nat. Park (Copeland 73), Owen's Valley (Horn in 

 1863, 2849), Claremont (Baker 3954), Calaveras Co. (Hansen 1275), San Bernardino Co. 

 (Pringle 145), San Bernardino Valley (Parish 5533), San Bernardino (Parish 539, 3958), 

 Napa Co. (Chandler 7123), Napa River Basin (Jepson, 1735, 7124), Nevada Co. (Jones 2490), 

 Lake Co. (Bolander 2674), Los Angeles Co. (Brewer 68), St. Helena (Jepson 70a; 70b), Niles 

 (Jepson 125b), Sherman (Braunton in 1902), Redondo (Braunton in 1902), Los Angeles 

 (Hasse in 1890), Santa Clara Co. (Baker 57), Sierra Co. (Brewer 2698), Quincy (Eggleston 

 7649), Lassen's Peak (Austin 492), Rubio Canyon (Peirson 150), Contra Costa Co. (Bolan- 

 der 2436), Modoc Co. (Manning 497, 498), Lathrop (Bioletti in 1892), San Joaquin River 

 Bridge (Brandegee in 1892), Ramona (Brandegee in 1894), Mt. Wilson (Peirson 261), Tulare 

 Co. (Engelmann in 1880, Congdon 69), Ojai Valley (Thacher 34), Old Colony Mill (Brande- 

 gee in 1905), Visalia (Congdon in 1881), Placer Co. (Carpenter in 1892), Mendocino Co. 

 (Vasey in 1875), Solano Co. (Jepson & Woolsey 4c; Jepson 4d; 4e), San Jacinto Mts. (Hall in 

 1901), Fresno Co. (Grant 1141), Yosemite Park (Hall 9675, with exceptionally large flowers), 

 Nevada Falls (Redfield 5859), Placerville (Remy in 1855). Mare Island Bay (Wright in 1875), 

 Napa Valley (Greene 335), Black Rock Mts. (Leiberg 5268), Butte Co. (Heller 11588), Madera 

 Co. (Murdoc 2537), Mariposa Co. (Congdon in 1903). Oregon; Lakeview (Coville & Leiberg 

 150). 



Mexico: Lower California (Fish in 1882), Todos Santos (Fish in 1883). 



Cuscuta salina Engelmann 

 C. salina Engelmann in Brewer, Watson & Gray, Bot. of Calif. Geol. Survey Publ., 1 :536, 1880. 

 Stems very slender. Flowers glabrous, about 2.5-4.5 mm. long, 

 pentamerous, on pedicels mostly shorter than the flowers in cymose 



