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along the stem on short slender axillary branchlets, sometimes bracted, congested, or especially 

 the terminal, elongated ; corolla inconspicuous, limb 1-2 mm. broad ; fruiting calyx oblong-ovoid 

 to lanceolate, 8-12 mm. long; mature calyx-lobes linear or linear-lanceolate, connivent above 

 with the tips recurved, more or less villous on the margins, and hispid on the midrib ; nutlets 4, 

 lanceolate, long-acuminate, about 2.5 mm. long, verrucose, conspicuously muriculate tovi^ard the 

 apex; groove open or closed, dilated below into a small areola; style almost or quite equaling 

 the nutlets. 



Deserts, Sonoran Zones; Inyo County, California, south to the Colorado Desert and northern Lower Cali- 

 fornia, east to Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Type locality: Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. April-May. 



Cryptantha nevadensis var. rigida I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 74: 68. 1925. Stems slender, 

 erect, more or less hirsute-hispid with spreading hairs; calyx 5-10 mm. long; nutlets oblong-ovoid, acute, 

 verrucose, about 2 mm. long. Inner Coast Ranges, Stanislaus County, and eastern slopes of the Santa 

 Lucia Mountains, Monterey County, south to southern San Joaquin Valley and the western end of the 

 Mojave Desert, California; also western Arizona. Type locality: "hills bordering Mojave Desert." 



18. Cryptantha scoparia A. Nels. Desert Cryptantha. Fig. 4282. 



Cryptantha muriculata var. montana A. Nels. Erythea 7: 69. 1899. 

 Cryptantha scoparia A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 54: 144. 1912. 



Stems with several to many stiffly erect branches, 10-35 cm. high, closely short-strigoseand 

 frequently sparsely hispid. Leaves narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, strictly 

 ascending, hispidulous with ascending often pustulate hairs ; spikes stiffly erect, solitary or 

 geminate, bractless, 2-10 cm. long ; corolla inconspicuous, about 1 mm. wide at the tips of the 

 ascending lobes; fruiting calyx oblong-ovoid, 5-6 mm. long, strictly ascending; mature calyx- 

 lobes linear-lanceolate, rather stifif, somewhat connivent above with the tips slightly spreading, 

 midrib costate, armed with stout divaricate whitish bristles, margins ascending-hispidulous ; 

 nutlets 4. homomorphous, lanceolate, sometimes broadly so, barely 2 mm. long, brownish and 

 shining, sharply muriculate especially toward the apex, rounded at base and on the margins, 

 groove narrow, forked below into a subulate areola. 



Dry sagebrush plains, usually in sandy soils, LTpper Sonoran Zone; Yakima County, Washington, and 

 Harney and Malheur Counties, Oregon; also Idaho and Wyoming. Type locality: sagebrush land, Minidoka, 

 Wyoming. May-July. 



19. Cryptantha muricata (Hook. & Arn.) Nels. & Macbr. Prickly Cryptantha. 



Fig. 4283. 



Myosotis muricata Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey 369. 1838. 

 Eritrichiiim f tnuriculatum A. DC. Prod. 10: 132. 1846. 

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

 Cryptantha muriculata Greene, Pittonia 1: 113. 1887. 

 Cryptantha horridula Greene, op. cit. 5: 55. 1902. 

 Cryptantha muricata Nels. & Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 61:42. 1916. 



Stems erect, usually stout and simple below, several-branched above, 1-8 dm. high, con- 

 spicuously hirsute-hispid with spreading hairs, also strigose, especially above. Leaves Hnear, 

 1.5-3 cm. long, cinereous short-hirsute; spikes terminating the rnain branches, in twos or 

 threes or often in fours, 4-10 cm. long in fruit, those of the comparatively few lateral branchlets 

 smaller, geminate or ternate ; corolla 2-6 mm. broad ; fruiting calyx ovoid, 2-4 cm. long, the 

 lobes lanceolate, connivent, short-hirsute on the sides with ascending hairs, midrib tawny-hispid ; 

 nutlets 4, homomorphous, ovoid-triangular, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, dull or somewhat shiny, con- 

 spicuously grayish, muriculate or tuberculate on both sides, sometimes somewhat verrucose 

 dorsally, lateral angles usually acute and prominent; ventral groove slightly open or usually 

 closed, broadly forked at base. 



Dry gravelly slopes or washes. Upper Sonoran Zone; California Coast Ranges from Contra Costa 

 County to Los Angeles County. Type locality: California. Collected by Douglas. April-July. 



Cryptantha muricata var. denticulata (Greene) I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 74:71. 1925. 

 {Krynitzkia denticulata Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1:205. 1885; Cryptantha denticulata Greene, Pittonia 

 1:114. 1887; C. vitrca Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 2:292. 1902; C. dcnsiflora Nels. & Kenn. Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash. 19: 156. 1906.) Stems with a few well-developed lateral branches as in the typical species, 

 but usually more slender; spikes not numerous, mostly geminate or ternate; corolla inconspicuous, 1-2 mm. 

 broad. Gravelly slopes and flats. Arid Transition Zone; central Sierra Nevada, California, and western 

 Nevada, south to the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, California. Type locality: western Nevada. 



Cryptantha muricata var. Jonesii (A. Gray) I. M. Johnston, Plant World 22: 114. 1919. {Krynitzkia 

 Jonesii A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20:274. 1885; Cryptantha Jonesii Greene, Pittonia 1:113. 1887.) 

 Stems usually stout, commonly solitary and erect or sometimes several and fastigiate, bearing to below the 

 middle many short lateral floriferous branchlets; spikes numerous, those on the ascending lateral branchlets 

 short, grouped along the stem to form an elongated paniculate inflorescence. Dry ridges and plains, mostly 

 Upper Sonoran Zone; Coast Ranges (Glenn County) and Sierra Nevada (Nevada County) south to San 

 Diego County, California, and adjacent Lower California, east to Nevada and Arizona. Type locality: Santa 

 Cruz, California. 



20. Cryptantha excavata Brandg. Deep-scarred Cryptantha. Fig. 4284. 



Cryptantha excavata Brandg. Bot. Gaz. 27: 452. 1899. 



Cryptantha abortiva Greene ex C. F. Baker, West Amer. PI. 2: 10. 1903. (Nomen nudum.) 



Stem simple below, branching above the base, 15-25 cm. high, branches slender, hirsute with 

 more or less appressed hairs. Leaves linear, the lower 1.5-2 cm. long, the lower especially with 

 the hairs conspicuously pustulate ; spikes in twos or more often in threes, becoming 3-10 cm. 

 long and loosely flowered ; corolla-limb well-exserted, 2-3 mm. broad ; fruiting calyx 2-2 . 5 mm. 



