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14. Cryptantha corollata I. M. Johnston. Coast Range Cryptantha. Fig. 4278. 



Cryptantha decipiens var. corollata I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 74: 61. 1925. 

 Cryptantha corollata I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 18: 24. 1937. 



Stems slender, erect, 2-3 dm. high, with few ascending branches from the middle or above, 

 or sometimes more abundantly branched throughout, appressed-hispidulous throughout, some- 

 times also hirsute-hispid with spreading hairs, especially toward the base. Leaves mostly nar- 

 rowly linear, acute, strigose, bristly hispid on the margins and midvein ; spikes naked, gemmate 

 or ternate, 4-12 cm. long; corolla 2-3.5 mm. broad; fruiting calyx ascending, about 3 mm. 

 long white-strigose, the outer lobes also bristly with spreading often slightly subulate bristles ; 

 nutlet 1, ovoid-lanceolate, acuminate. 2 mm. long, brownish, granulate and papillate-munculate 

 on both'sides, low-convex on the back but with a low broadish ridge toward the base; groove 

 closed throughout and raised into a narrow keel, dilated at base into a small areola. 



Canyons and hillsides, Upper Sonoran Zone; California Coast Ranges from San Renito and Monterey 

 Counties to Riverside County. Type locality: "towards foothills, Ojai Valley," Ventura County. March-June. 



Cryptantha corollata subsp. Ratt4nii (Greene) Abrams. {Cryptantha Rattanii Greene, Pittonia 1:160. 

 1888 ) Habit of the typical species, but stems hirsute-hispid with spreading hairs as well as stngose; coro"a 

 usually larger, 3-5 mm. ; nutlets usually 2 or 3 maturing. Open slopes and flats. Upper Sonoran Zone ;^ watershed 

 of the Salinas and Carmel Rivers, Monterey County, California. Type locality: "Monterey County. Johnston 

 (Journ Arnold Arb. 20: 390. 1939.) designated the Hickman specimens in Greene's herbarium the type. 

 Dr. Greene definitely stated that he described the taxonomically important fruit character ^^from Hickman s 

 plant, and that Rattan's specimens from San Jose "were young and only beginning to flower. ' 



15. Cryptantha intermedia (A. Gray) Greene. Common Cryptantha. Fig. 4279. 



Eritrichium intermedium A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 225. 1882. 



Krynitzkia intermedia A. Gray, op. cit. 20: 273. 1885. 



Cryptantha intermedia var. Johnstonii J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 56: 59. 1918. 



Cryptantha Hansenii Brand, Rep. Spec. Nov. 24: 58. 1927. 



Cryptantha Hansenii var. pulchella Brand, loc. cit. 



Stems diffusely branched from the base or more commonly stiffly erect and branching above, 

 1.5-5 dm. high, hispid with spreading or sometimes appressed hairs. Leaves lanceolate to hnear, 

 acute or obtuse, hispid or strigose; spikes geminate or ternate, bractless, 5-1 S cm. long; corolla 

 commonly varying from 2-8 mm. but commonly about 5 mm. broad; fruiting calyx 2-7 rnm. 

 long, ascending or strict; mature calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, connivent above with spreading 

 tips,'short-villous or appressed-hirsute, midrib pungently hispid, especially on the abaxial lobe; 

 nutlets usually 4, homomorphous, ovoid-lanceolate, about 2 mm. long, coarsely and densely 

 tuberculate on both surfaces, grayish or somewhat brownish, margins slightly angled; groove 

 closed or narrow, gradually dilated below into a small areola ; styles about equaling to slightly 

 surpassing the nutlets. 



Dry sandy or gravelly flats on hillsides. Upper Sonoran Zone; western Siskiyou County, California, 

 southward west of the Sierra Nevada to cismontane southern California and northern Lower California. 

 Type locality: Los Angeles, California. March-July. 



16. Cryptantha barbigera (A. Gray) Greene. Bearded Cryptantha. Fig. 4280. 



Eritrichium barbigerum A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 2^: 194. 1878. 

 Krynitzkia barbigera A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 273. 1885. 

 Cryptantha barbigera Greene, Pittonia 1: 114. 1887. 



Stems erect, solitary or several from the base, branches strictly ascending or spreading, very 

 bristly hispid, sparsely or not at all strigose except in the inflorescence. Leaves broadly oblong 

 to linear, obtuse, more or less pilose and hirsute below on the midrib and margins with rather 

 stiff spreading hairs, more or less pustulate; corofla inconspicuous, limb 1-2 mm broad; fruit- 

 ing calyx ascending, 5-10 mm. long, narrowly oblong-ovoid to oblong-lanceolate, spreadmg 

 or recurved, white-villous, especially on the margins, the midrib with a few pustulate bristles ; 

 nutlets 1-4, lanceolate-ovoid, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, strongly verrucose, usually brownish, rounded 

 on the back and obscurely angled or rounded on the margins; groove gradually broadenmg 

 toward the base with a triangular areola; style equaling or slightly surpassing the nutlets. 



Desert regions, Sonoran Zones; Inyo County south through the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, California, 

 to northeastern Lower California, east through southern Nevada to southern Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and 

 Sonora. Type locality: Utah {Parry, 171) as designated by I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 74: 66. 

 1925. Feb.-May. 



Cryptantha barbigera var. Fergusoniae J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 56: 59. 1918. 

 {Cryptantha Fergusoniae Brand, Rep. Spec. Nov. 24:58. 1927.) Essentially like the typical species except 

 coro'lla larger, the limb 4-6 mm. broad. In the larger corolla this variety shows also close relationship with 

 Cryptantha intermedia. Vicinity of Palm Springs, Riverside County, California. 



17. Cryptantha nevadensis Nels. & Kenn. Nevada Cryptantha. Fig. 4281. 



Cryptantha nevadensis Nels. & Kenn. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 19: 157. 1906. 

 Krynitzkia barbigera var. inops Brandg. Zoe 5: 228. (September) 1906. 

 Cryptantha arenicola Heller, Muhlembergia 2:242. (December) 1906. 

 Cryptantha Icptophylla Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 678. 1909. 

 Cryptantha barbigera var. inops J. F. Macbride, Proc. Amer. Acad. 51: 548. 1916. 



Stems slender, 1-5 dm. high, 1 to several, erect or usually flexuous, closely short-strigose, 

 mostly laxly branched. Leaves linear to linear-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, 1-6 mm. broad, 

 appressed-short-hispid, more or less pustulate ; spikes in pairs or threes, terminal, also scattered 



