BORAGE FAMILY 599 



1 5-5 dm high densely white silky-villous at base, strigose and sparingly setose above, the 

 bristles appressed or ascending. Leaves rather crowded near the base, their clasping bases 

 often persistent, linear-oblanceolate, acute, 3-10 cm. long, densely strigose and at least all 

 but the lowest with appressed bristles with pustulate bases, lower surface uniformly strigose; 

 inflorescence usually less than one-third the length of the stem, the axis, floral bracts and 

 calyces covered with spreading yellowish bristles, cymules short ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 7-10 mm long in flower, 10-12 mm. in fruit ; corolla pale yellow or cream-colored. 12-14 mm 

 long the limb 7-9 mm. broad; nutlets broadly ovoid, sharply 3-angled, about 3 mm. long, tlat 

 or concave dorsally, acute and narrowly wing-margined at the angles, glossy and smooth ; scar 

 straight extending from base to about the middle, the margin not elevated. 



Usually on gravelly benches or washes. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; desert regions from 

 Mono and Inyo Counties to the northern base of the San Bernardino Mountains San Bernardino County, 

 Ca°fforn?a, east to southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northern Arizona. Type locality: Cushenberry 

 Springs, desert slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains, California. May-July. 



3. Oreocarya leucophaea (Dougl.) Greene. Gray Oreocarya. Fig. 4314. 



Myosotis leucophaea Dougl. ex. Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2: 22. 1830. 

 Eritrichium leucophaeum A. DC. Prod. 10: 129. 1846. 

 Krynitzkia leucophaea A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 280. 1885. 

 Oreocarya leucophaea Greene, Pittonia 1: 58. 1887. 

 Cryptantha leucophaea Payson, Ann. Mo. Hot. Gard. 14: 262. 1927. 



Stems arising from a cespitose woody caudex, 2-4 dm. high, densely white-strigose below, 

 bristly-hirsute above. Leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, acute, 3-6 cm. long or rarely longer, 

 ciliate toward the base and on the winged petioles, strigose on both sides; inflorescence 7-15 cm. 

 long, narrow, congested above, leafy bracted below, densely bnstly-hirsute ; fruiting calyx 10-15 

 mm 'long, the lobes linear-subulate, white-strigose and densely bristly; corolla white, the tube 

 &-10 mm. long, limb 8-10 mm. broad; nutlets about 3.5 mm. long, smooth and glossy, the mar- 

 gins acute but not winged ; scar as in preceding species. 



Usually in sandy soils, associated with sagebrush, Arid Transition Zone; east of the Cascade Mountains 

 from southern British Columbia and eastern Washington at least as far as Walla Walla County, and prob- 

 ably adjacent northern Oregon. Type locality: "arid barrens of the Columbia, and of its northern and southern 

 tributaries." May-July. 



4. Oreocarya subretusa (I. M. Johnston) Abrams. Crater Lake Oreocarya. 



Fig. 4315. 



Cryptantha subretusa I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 20: 393. 1939. 

 Cryptantha andina I. M. Johnston ex M. E. Peck, Man. PI. Oregon 601. 1941. 



Cespitose perennial, the woody caudex usually compact and densely leafy. Leaves congested 

 at base, spatulate, subretuse, rounded or obtuse at apex, tomentose ; stems 7-20 cm. high, densely 

 yellowish hirsute-bristly, flowers mostly congested in a rather narrow thyrsus, bracts densely 

 yellowish-hispid, the lower longer than the cymes, the upper shorter; sepals 3-4 mm. long m 

 anthesis 5-7 mm. in age ; corolla white, tube 3-4 mm. long, limb 3-6 mm. broad ; nutlets oblong- 

 lanceolate, 3^ mm. long, acute on the angles or narrowly wing-margined, dorsal surface 

 convex, inconspicuously tuberculate or with short low rugae; scar linear or subulate with the 

 base slightly open. 



Dry talus slopes, especially in pumice, Boreal Zones; Crater Lake, Oregon to Mount Eddy, Siskiyou 

 County, California, east to Wallowa and Harney Counties. Oregon, and Humboldt County, Nevada, lype 

 locality: "Crater Lake, pumice slope on rim. 7.000 ft." May-Aug. 



This species has been confused by some authors with 0. nubigena and O. hutnilis. 



5. Oreocarya crymophila (I. M. Johnston) Jepson & Hoover. Alpine Oreocarya. 



Fig. 4316. 



Cryptantha crymophila I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 21: 65. 1940. 

 Oreocarya crymophila Jepson & Hoover in Jepson. Fl. Calif. 3: 328. 1943. 



Perennial, stems erect, several, 1.5-3 dm. high, simple, hirsute and minutely villous below, 

 hispid above. Leaves grayish villous-tomentose and bearing upwardly appressed setae on both 

 surfaces, the setae on the lower surface pustulate at base; lower leaves spatulate-oblanceolate, 

 5-10 cm long; upper cauline leaves oblanceolate or narrowly linear, 4-5 cm. long, 4-5 mm. 

 broad; cymes 3-7-flowered, scattered in the axils of the leaves and glomerate at the apex, 

 fruiting inflorescence 2-3 cm. broad; calyx 5 mm. long in flower, 13-15 mm. in fruit; corolla 

 white, 8 mm. long, limb 5 mm. broad; nutlets 4, ovoid. 4.5-5 mm. long, rounded at base, dorsal 

 side irregularly rugose, the rugae interrupted more or less by transverse rugae, ventral side 

 smooth; scar narrow, subulate at base; gynobase subulate. 



Rocky slopes, mainly Hudsonian Zone; alpine ridges between the Clark Fork and Middle Fork of the 

 Stanislaus River, Sierra Nevada, Alpine and Tuolumne Counties, California. Type locality: Red Peak, Alpine 

 County, California. July-Aug. 



6. Oreocarya nubigena Greene. Sierra Oreocarya. Fig. 4317. 



Oreocarya nubigena Greene, Pittonia 3: 112. 1896. 



Cryptantha nubigena Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14: 265, in part. 1927. 



Cryptantha Clemensiae Payson, op. cit. 14: 267. 



Stems several to many from rather slender roots, slender, 6-15 cm. high, densely leafy at 



