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tuberculate, surface granulate ; ventral side with the sides diagonally rugose, and forming a 

 narrow longitudinal groove enclosing the thin keel and the knife-like attachment, both of about 

 equal length. 



Moist places and grassy slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; San Francisco to Santa Cruz and inland to Crystal 

 Lake, San Mateo County, California. Type locality: San Francisco. March-May. 



This species was discovered in 1816 by botanists of the Romanzoff Expedition, and named for L. J. Choris, 

 the artist of that famous expedition. 



AUocarya Chorisiana var. Hickmanii Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 852. 1925. {Allocarya Hickmanii 

 Greene, Pittonia 1: 13. 1887; A. myriantha Greene, Erythea 3: 125. 1895; A. Jonesii Brand, Rep. Spec. Nov. 

 18: 313. 1922; Plagiobothrys Chorisianua var. Hickmanii I. M. Johnston, Contr. Arnold Arb. No. 3: 49. 1932.) 

 Stems branched from the base, prostrate, the lower internodes short; pedicels mostly shorter than the calyx; 

 corolla 5-6 mm. Ijroad. Pescadero, Santa Cruz County, south along the coast to northern San Luis Obispo 

 County, California. Type locality: southern Monterey County. 



15. AUocarya lithocarya Greene. Sculptured AUocarya. Fig. 4236. 



Krynitzkia lithocarya Greene ex A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 265. 1885. 



AUocarya lithocarya Greene, Pittonia 1 : 12. 1887. 



Plagiobothrys lithocaryus 1. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 76. 1923. 



Stems erect, simple or with a few ascending branches, strigose. Leaves linear, 1.5-3.5 cm. 

 long, strigose on both sides ; racemes loosely flowered in age, leafy-bracteate at least below ; 

 pedicels slender, the lowest often 5-10 mm. long; corolla 2 mm. broad, slightly exceeding the 

 calyx; fruiting calyx-lobes about 4 mm. long; nutlets whitish, smooth and shining, ovoid, 2.5 

 mm. long, rounded and rather faintly keeled on the dorsal side, somewhat flattened on the 

 ventral side, with the keel hidden, from above the middle downward, by a groove-like infolding 

 of the lateral angles ; scar linear, but similarly hidden by the folds. 



A local endemic. Upper Sonoran Zone; near Lakeport, Lake County iCurran), and Potter Valley, eastern 

 Mendocino County (Pur pus). Type locality: Lakeport. April-May. 



16. AUocarya figurata Piper. Fragrant AUocarya. Fig. 4237. 



AUocarya figurata Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 101. 1920. 



Plagiobothrys figuratus I. M. Johnston ex M. E. Peck, Man. PI. Oregon 609. 1941. 



AUocarya Scouleri and Plagiobothrys Scouleri of authors, but not as to synoptic type (.Myosotis Scouleri Hook. 

 & Arn.) 



Stems erect, simple below or freely branched from the base, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, strigose. 

 Lower leaves subulate-linear, 4-12 cm. long, the upper linear to linear-lanceoate, 1-5 cm. long, 

 strigose ; racemes mostly geminate, 5-20 cm. long in age, bractless or sometimes with a single 

 bract at base; pedicels slender, 0.5-2 mm. long; calyx at maturity 3-5 mm. long, villous and 

 more or less ferruginous; corolla showy, 4-8 mm. broad; nutlets ovoid, 1-1.5 mm. long, dorsal 

 side keeled to about the middle and more or less reticulate-rugose, the keel and ridges usually 

 tuberculate-dentate, the interspaces commonly granulate or minutely tuberculate ; ventral side 

 with a small lateral suprabasal ovate scar, and diagonal on either side of the thin keel. 



Wet meadows and water courses, mostly Humid Transition Zone; Vancouver Island and western Washing- 

 ton to Curry and Jackson Counties, Oregon. Type locality: "Frye's Ranch, Illahe, Curry County, Oregon." 

 April-July. 



17. AUocarya hirta Greene. Rough AUocarya. Fig. 4238. 



AUocarya hirta Greene, Pittonia 1: 161. 1888. 



AUocarya Scouleri var. hirta Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 61 : 36. 1916. 



AUocarya calycosa Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 22: 101. 1920. 



Plagiobothrys Scouleri var. hirtus I. M. Johnston, Contr. Arnold Arb. No. 3: 52. 1932. 



Plagiobothrys hirtus I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 16: 193. 1935. 



Annual with an erect stoutish stem, about 3 dm. high, usually simple below, glabrate below, 

 setose-hirsute above, especially on the branches, with spreading hairs, branches ascending. Leaves 

 of the main stem opposite, connate at base, linear, 2.5-4 cm. long, nearly or quite glabrous 

 except for marginal setose, pustulate bristles, those of the branches mostly alternate and shorter, 

 pustulate-setose throughout with no appressed pubescence ; racemes in pairs terminating the 

 branches, bractless ; pedicels slender, 1-2 mm. long ; calyx 4 mm. long in fruit, the lobes erect, 

 densely setose-hirsute ; corolla 5 mm. broad ; nutlets ovoid, barely 2 mm. long, grayish brown, 

 the dorsal side rounded, ridges inconspicuously reticulate, rather obscurely rugulose and tubercu- 

 late ; ventral side rugulose and sparingly tuberculate, prominently keeled. 



Boggy ground. Humid Transition Zone; Umpqua Valley, apparently very local in the vicinity of Drain. 

 Type locality: "Umpqua Valley, Oregon, 25 June, 1887, Thomas Howell [no. 1227]." May-July. 



AUocarya hirta subsp. corallicarpa (Piper) Abrams. (AUocarya corallicarpa Piper, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 

 37:93. 1924; Plaoiobothrys Scouleri var. coraUicarpus I. M. Johnston, Contr. Arnold Arb. No. 3: 52. 1932; 

 P. hirtus var. coraUicarpus I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 16: 193. 1935.) Nutlets deeply and irregularly 

 alveolate with conspicuous high thin ridges and papillae. Upper Rogue River Valley, Jackson and Josephine 

 Counties, Oregon. Type locality: Grants Pass, Oregon. 



