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ascending hairs, midrib hispid; nutlets 4, all similar, or sometimes reduced to 1-3, smooth and 

 somewhat shiny, lanceolate, acuminate, convex on dorsal face, rounded or obtuse on the sides, 

 groove closed above, opening below into a deltoid areola; style equaling or slightly surpassing 

 the nutlets. 



Usually on sagebrush plains. Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; southeastern AVashington and 

 northeastern Oregon, east to Saskatchewan and western Nebraska, and south to northern Arizona and New 

 Mexico. Type locality: New Mexico. June-Aug. 



37. Cryptantha leiocarpa (Fisch. & Mey.) Greene. Coast Cryptantha. Fig. 4301. 



Echinospermum leiocarpum Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 2: 36. 1835. 



Krynitskia leiocarpa Fisch. & Mey. op. cit. 7: 52. 1841. 



Eritrichnim leiocarpum S. Wats. Bot. King Expl. 244. 1871. 



Cryptantha leiocarpa Greene, Pittonia 1: 117. 1887. 



Cryptantha leiocarpa var. eremocaryoides Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 53. 1931. 



Stems at first erect, later commonly widely branched from the base and more or less de- 

 cumbent, 1-3 dm. long, more or less densely hirsute-hispid, with white appressed or ascending 

 hairs. Leaves linear or sometimes oblanceolate, usually narrowly so, ascending, acute or 

 obtuse, appressed pilose-hispid on both sides ; spikes usually numerous, those on the short 

 lateral' branchlets usually short and congested, those terminating the principal branches often 

 in pairs and becoming 2-4 cm. or rarely 6 cm. long and conspicuously leafy-bracted ; corolla 

 1-2.5 mm. broad; fruiting calyx ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, crowded or becoming 

 loose below; mature calyx-lobes somewhat connivent above, midrib thickened, conspicuously 

 tawny-hispid with spreading bristles, margins appressed-hirsute ; nutlets 4, rarely reduced 

 to 1 by abortion, ovoid-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, smooth, shiny, usually mottled with brown and 

 light gray, rounded on the back, ventral side obtusely rounded, margin obtuse, groove closed 

 to the base, obscurely or commonly not at all forked at base; style equaling or slightly sur- 

 passing the nutlets. 



Sandy soils along the coast, mainly Humid Transition Zone; Gold Beach, southern Oregon to Surf, Santa 

 Barbara County, California. Type locality: Fort Ross, California. April-June. 



38. Cryptantha Clevelandii Greene. Cleveland's Cryptantha. Fig. 4302. 



Cryptantha Clevelandii Greene, Pittonia, 1: 117. 1887. 



Cryptantha Brandegei I. M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 68: 53. 1923. 



Cryptantha Abramsii I. M. Johnston, op. cit. No. 74: 97. 1925. 



Stems erect or sometimes decumbent, 1-5 dm. high, usually with several elongated ascending 

 or spreading branches, hispidulous with appressed or ascending hairs. Leaves usually dense at 

 base, sparsely scattered above and on the branches, linear to linear-lanceolate, mostly acutish, 

 rather thinly appressed-hispidulous and usually with a few stouter bristles on margins; spikes 

 solitary at the ends of the branches or in twos or threes, 4-10 cm. long, slender, bractless with 

 1 or 2 bracts at base ; corolla about 1 mm. broad ; fruiting calyx ovoid to ovoid-oblong, 2-3 mm. 

 long; mature calyx-lobes linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, connivent above with the tips 

 spreading, outer ones conspicuously hispid on the thickened midribs, all the lobes densely 

 whitish appressed-hirsutulous ; nutlets 1-4, ovate-oblong to broadly lanceolate, smooth and 

 shining, low-rounded on the back, groove closed, broadly forked at base or rarely with a small 

 areola ;' style about two-thirds to as long as nutlets or slightly surpassing them. 



Hillsides and mountain slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; cismontane southern California from the vicinity of 

 Los Angeles to northern Lower California. Type locality: San Diego, California. April-June. 



Cryptantha Clevelandii var. flor6sa L M. Johnston, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 74: 95. 1925. {Cryptantha 

 hispidissima Greene, Pittonia 1: 118. 1887; C. Clevelandii var. htspidxssima I. M. Johnston in Munz, Man, S. 

 Calif 427 1935 ) Plants usually stouter, spreading or erect, often conspicuously hispid with spreading hairs; 

 spikes in twos or threes at the ends of leafless or sparingly leafy peduncles, bractless or with a few bracts 

 at base; corolla 2-5 mm. broad. California Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, but intre- 

 quently found as far north as Santa Cruz County. Type locality: Linda Vista, San Diego County. 



Cryptantha Clevelandii var. dissita (I. M. Johnston) Jepson & Hoover in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3:348. 

 1943 (Cryptantha dissita I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 20: 383. 1939.) Stems rather stout with 

 ascending branches, villous-hirsute; corolla 4-6 mm. broad; fruiting calyx 5-6 mm. long; nutlets 1-3, ovate- 

 lanceolate; style slightly exceeding the nutlets. Tufaceous and serpentine outcrops in the vicinity of Lakeport, 

 Lake County, California. Type locality: near foot of grade a few miles west of Lakeport on road to Hopland. 



39. Cryptantha Ganderi I. M. Johnston. Gander's Cryptantha. Fig. 4303. 



Cryptantha Ganderi I. M. Johnston, Journ. Arnold Arb. 20: 386. 1939. 



Stem 1-4 dm. high, branching from the base and more or less dichotomously above, hirsute- 

 hispid with spreading hairs of different length. Leaves linear, acute or obtuse, rather thinly 

 hispidulous, the hairs, especially those on the lower, pustulate at base ; spikes solitary, terminal 

 or from the axils of the upper leaves, bractless, 5-15 cm. long and loosely flowered in age; 

 corolla inconspicuous, 2.5 cm. long, lobes narrow, erect; fruiting calyx subsessile, ascending, 

 accrescent, 6-10 mm. long, lobes narrowly linear, erect, margins very narrow, the costate midrib 

 with conspicuous yellowish, spreading or deflexed bristles; ovules 4, usually 1 fertile and 3 

 abortive; nutlets lanceolate, acuminate, 2-2.5 mm. long, smooth or faintly rugulose, shiny, 

 grayish brown and rather obscurely mottled, convex on the back, margins rounded, ventral 

 side broadly obtuse ; groove closed above, forked at base into a narrow triangular areola. 



Desert washes and hills, Lower Sonoran Zone; Colorado Desert, San Diego County California, and 

 northern Lower California. Type locality: "Borego Valley, Larrea-Franseria association, 500 ft. alt. tsan 

 Diego County. Feb.-May. 



