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6. Hackelia setosa (Piper) I. M. Johnston. Bristly Stickseed. Fig. 4207. 



Lappula setosa Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 544. 1902. 



Hackelia setosa I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 46. 1923. 



Stems 1 to several from the often-branched crown of the woody root, 3-6 dm. high, plant 

 bristly-hirsute throughout without any finer pubescence. Basal leaves linear-oblanceolate, 

 acutish to obtuse, 6-10 cm. long, blade and petiole of about equal length ; cauhne leaves sessile 

 or nearly so, linear to linear-lanceolate, gradually reduced above and passmg mto the bracts of 

 the inflorescence; calyx-lobes oblong-linear, obtuse, 3^ mm. long, hispid; corolla bright to 

 light blue, 12-15 mm. broad, the tube not exceeding the calyx ; appendages semicircular, short- 

 pilose, protuberance small; nutlets 5 mm. long, the long and alternating short marginal prickles 

 confluent at the bases to form a narrow wing, dorsal surface nearly plane, minutely muriculate 

 bearing several short barbed bristles. 



Open woods or brushy openings in forests, Canadian and Transition Zones; Siskiyou Mountains, south- 

 western Oregon, to Humboldt and northern Lake Counties in North Coast Ranges and to Sierra County in the 

 Sierra Nevada, California. Type locality: Sierra Valley, Plumas County, California. June-July. 



7. Hackelia diffvisa (Lehm.) Greene. Diffuse Stickseed. Fig. 4208. 



Echinosperntum diffusum Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2: 23. 1830. 



Lappula diffusa Greene, Pittonia 2: 182. 1891. 



Lappula Hendersonii Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 529. 1902. 



Hackelia diffusa I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 48. 1923. 



Stems usually several or many from a large root, diffusely spreading, 2)-7 dm. long, soft- 

 hirsute. Lower leaves oblanceolate, tapering into a margined petiole, 8-15 cm. long, upper ob- 

 long, sessile, gradually smaller above, the uppermost becoming bract-like; racemes paniculate; 

 corolla rotate, white varying to blue, 8-12 mm. broad, appendages puberulent ; fruiting pedicels 

 deflexed, about 5 mm. long; nutlets about 5 mm. long, marginal prickles subulate, very flat, as 

 long as the width of the nutlet or nearly so ; dorsal surface of nutlet narrowly ovate, muriculate, 

 bearing numerous short barbed prickles. 



Shady cliffs and moist rocky ground, Transition and Canadian Zones; British Columbia south on the 

 eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains in Yakima and Klickitat Counties, Washington, and Wasco and Sher- 

 man Counties. Oregon. Type locality: "N.W. America." Collected by Douglas. May-July. 



8. Hackelia bella (J. F. Macbride) I. M. Johnston. Showy Stickseed. Fig. 4209. 



Lappula bella J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 48: 39. 1916. 

 Lappula Rattanii Brand, Rep. Spec. Nov. 18: 311. 1922. 

 Hackelia bella I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 47. 1923. 

 Hackelia Rattanii Brand, Pflanzenreich 4252; 129. 1931. 



Perennial, stems erect or ascending, S-6 dm. high, rather densely strigillose above, re- 

 trorsely so below. Basal leaves oblanceolate, 10-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, narrowed below to 

 a petiole nearly as long, rather densely strigillose-tomentose ; upper stem-leaves broadly 

 lanceolate-ovate to oblong, sessile and subcordate-clasping at base; inflorescence open; pedicels 

 becoming reflexed, the longer 10-15 mm. long; calyx-lobes oblong to oblong-ovate, 4-6 mm. 

 long in fruit ; corolla white, tube about 4 mm. long, limb 12-18 mm. broad, appendages pube- 

 scent; nutlets ovoid, 6-7 mm. long; dorsal face muriculate and with a few scattering short 

 obscurely barbed prickles, marginal prickles in a single row, long, slender, broadened at base 

 and sometimes slightly united into a narrow wing. 



Open slopes, Canadian Zone; Coast Ranges from southern Siskiyou County to Mendocino County. Cali- 

 fornia. Type locality: Dorleska, Salmon Mountains, Trinity County, in the Canadian Zone, at an altitude 

 of 2,000 meters. June-Aug. 



9. Hackelia arida (Piper) I. M. Johnston. Sagebrush Stickseed. Fig. 4210. 



Lappula arida Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 44. 1901. 



Hackelia arida I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 48. 1923. 



Lo^/ju/a Co«o»iti Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 29 : 549. 1902. 



Stems erect, 3-5 dm. high, branched above, canescently hirsute throughout with mostly 

 appressed hairs. Basal leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, acute, attenuate into the petiole, 

 ■8-20 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide; stem-leaves linear, 4-12 cm. long, 5 mm. wide, sessile by a broad 

 base, more or less hirsute-ciliate ; racemes 5-10 cm. long, loosely flowered ; calyx-lobes linear- 

 oblong, 2 mm. long, very obtuse; corolla white, rotate, 10-12 mm. broad, the fornices broader 

 than long, obscurely retuse, short-pilose ; marginal prickles of nutlets all barbed, united at base, 

 unequal in length, the longer about half as long as the width of the nutet; dorsal surface 

 muriculate and with 6-10 short barbed bristles centrally placed; inner surface hispidulous or 

 muriculate ; scar oblong-ovate, central. 



Dry sagebrush plains. Upper Sonoran Zone; eastern Washington from Chelan County to Yakima County 

 east to Spokane County. Type locality: EUensburg, Klickitat County. May-June. 



10. Hackelia ciliata (Dougl.) I. M. Johnston. Okanogan Stickseed. Fig. 4211. 



Cynoglossum ciliatum Dougl. ex Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2: 24. 1830. 

 Echinospermum ciliatum A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 225. 1882. 

 Lappula ciliata Greene, Pittonia 2: 182. 1891. 

 .Hackelia ciliata I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 46. 1923. 



Stems usually only 1 or 2 from a woody root, erect or ascending, 2,-6 dm. Jiigh ; canescent 



