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40. Cryptantha hispidula Greene, Napa Cryptantha. Fig. 4304. 



Cryptantha hispidula Greene ex Baker, West. Amer. PI. 2: 10. 1903. Nomen nudum. 

 Cryptantha hispidula Greene ex Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^=2; 60. 1931. 



Stems erect, slender, 1-4 dm. high, widely branched above the base, strigose and spreading- 

 hirsutulous. Leaves linear or the lower narrowly oblanceolate, 0.7-1.5 cm. long, spreading- 

 hispidulous, more or less pustulate; spikes geminate or ternate or occasionally solitary, be- 

 coming loosely flowered and often 5-7 cm. long; corolla 2-2.5 mm. broad ; fruiting calyx 

 2-2.5 mm. ascending, connivent with the tips spreading; mature calyx-lobes linear, conspicu- 

 ously hispid on the midrib, the tips and margins appressed-hispidulous ; nutlet 1, smooth and 

 polished, ovate or lanceolate, narrowed above into a slender beak, well-rounded on both sides; 

 groove open, shortly forked at base; style shorter than the nutlet. 



Serpentine outcrops, Upper Sonoran Zone; Inner Coast Ranges, Lake and Napa Counties, California. 

 Type locality: Knoxville, Napa County. April-June. 



41. Cryptantha microstachys Greene. Tejon Cryptantha. Fig. 4305. 



Krynitzkia microstachys Greene ex A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 269. 1885. 

 Cryptantha microstachys Greene, Pittonia 1: 116. 1887. 



Stems erect, slender-branched from the base or above, 8-30 cm. high, hirsute-hispidulous 

 with spreading or more or less ascending hairs. Leaves spreading, linear to linear-lanceolate, 

 1^ cm. long, obtuse, hirsute-hispidulous or rarely strigose, sparsely ciliate-hispid on the mar- 

 gins and the midrib beneath ; spikes geminate or ternate, in age loosely flowered and very 

 slender, 2.5-8 cm. long; corolla 0.5-1 mm. broad; fruiting calyx ascending, 1-2 mm. long, 

 oblong or slightly connivent and tips slightly spreading ; calyx-lobes narrowly linear-lanceolate, 

 thinly strigose and greenish with a few spreading bristles on the midrib and usually 1 or 2 

 erect ones at the tip; nutlet 1, lanceolate or ovate-attenuate, 1.5 mm. long, smooth and polished, 

 rounded on the dorsal side, the ventral side rounded or slightly 2-planed; groove closed, simple 

 or shortly forked at very base. 



Common in chaparral, Upper Sonoran Zone; Coast Ranges from Glenn County south to San Diego 

 County, also Sierra Nevada in Kern County, California. Type locality: Fort Tejon, Kern County. April-June. 



42. Cryptantha nemaclada Greene. Colusa Cryptantha. Fig. 4306. 



Cryptantha nemaclada Greene, Pittonia 1: 118. 1887. 



Stems slender, erect and usually much-branched, 1-3 dm. high, sparsely strigose, and more 

 or less short-hirsute. Leaves narrowly linear, 1-3 cm. long, obtuse, ascending or somewhat 

 appressed, appressed-hirsutulous, minutely pustulate ; spikes solitary or geminate, bractless, 

 slender, becoming loosely flowered and 2-9 cm. long; corolla minute, less than 1 mm. broad; 

 fruiting calyx oblong-ovoid, strictly ascending, 2-4 mm. long; mature calyx-lobes linear, con- 

 nivent above with tips spreading, midrib thickened, conspicuously hispid toward the base, 

 retrorsely setulose toward the apex, margins sparsely strigose; nutlets 1-4, lanceolate to ovoid- 

 lanceolate, 1.7-2 mm. long, smooth, convex on the back, obtuse on the sides, groove opened or 

 closed above, broadly forked below; style reaching to about three-fourths the length of the 

 nutlet. 



Hillsides and shaded banks. Upper Sonoran Zone; Inner Coast Ranges and bordering valleys, Colusa 

 County south to San Luis Obispo County and the Tehachapi Mountains, California. Type locality: "Colusa 

 County." April-May. 



43. Cryptantha rostellata Greene. Beaked Cryptantha. Fig. 4307. 



Krynitzkia rostellata Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 203. 1885. 

 Cryptantha rostellata Greene, Pittonia 1: 116. 1887. 

 Krynitzkia Suksdorfii Grcenm. Bot. Gaz. 40: 146. 1905. 

 Cryptantha Suksdorfii Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 484. 1906. 



Stems stifily erect, branched below or more often simple below with a few ascending 

 branches toward the top, rather finely strigose and canescent. Leaves rather abundant along 

 main stem, ascending, firm and persistent, usually opposite below the middle, narrowly linear 

 but more often oblanceolate and 2-3 mm. wide ; spikes solitary or geminate, rather stiff, naked, 

 2-4 cm. long; corolla minute, 1 mm. or less broad; fruiting calyx oblong-ovate, 3^ mm. long, 

 spreading or ascending, fairly persistent; mature calyx-lobes with rnidrib on all lobes armed 

 with stout, encrusted uncinate or arcuate hairs, margins sparsely ciHate or strigose; only 1 

 nutlet maturing, smooth, compressed ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-3 mm. long, convex 

 dorsally, rounded on the sides, truncate at base; groove closed above, forked at base into a 

 distinct areola; gynobase very short and stout; style one-half to one-third height of nutlet. 



Foothills, Upper Sonoran Zone; Klickitat County, Washington, south to central California. Type locality: 

 "Lake and Colusa Counties," California. Collected by Mrs. Curran. April-May. 



Cryptantha rostellata var. spithamea (I. M. Johnston) Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 354. 1943. (Cryptantha 

 spithamea I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 20: 385. 1939.) The reflexed bristles on the lower part of the 

 calyx are few or wanting. Foothills, Upper Sonoran Zone; Mariposa County, California. Type locality: Coulter- 

 ville. 



