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4 lines long, its limb 2 to 4 lines broad ; stamens broadening below insertion to form 

 triangular scales connate at base; style cleft 14 ; nutlets 4, ovate, 1 line long, thick- 

 walled, smooth and rounded on the back, obtuse, the sides plane, obscurely rugose. 



Dry sandy soil, -100 to 500 feet : eastern Mohave Desert ; Colorado Desert. East 

 to western Arizona, south to Lower California. Mar. -May. 



Locs. — E. Mohave Desert: Kelso, ace. P. A. Mum. Colorado Desert: Cottonwood Sprs., Eagle 

 Mts., Parish 10,286; Ogilby, se. Imperial Co., C. L. Eitchcorh; Yaqui Well (Ironwood Well), 

 e. San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. The var. pulchella Jtn., corolla blue, 4 to 6 lines long, is repre- 

 sented by: Mule Sprs. (10 mi. nw. of Palo Verde), flaZZ 5964; Ogilby (ne.), Chocolate Mts., Mum 

 4- Hitchcock 12,181. 



Eefs. — CoLDENiA CAiTESCENS DC, Prodr. 9:559 (1845), type loc. betw. Santander and Vic- 

 toria, Mex., Berlandier 2256; Jepson, Man. 838 (1925) ; the nutlets in the original form of the 

 species as found in Mexico and Texas are lightly strigulose. Stegnocar- 

 pus canescens Torr., Pac. R. Eep. 2:169, pi. 7 (1855), Pecos River, valley 

 of the Rio Grande, Tex. C. canescens var. subnuda Jtn., Proe. Cal. Acad, 

 ser. 4, 12:1137 (1924), type loc. San Nicolas Bay, L. Cal., Johnston 

 3731; the nutlets in the plants found in the California deserts are gla- 

 brous. Var. PULCHELLA Jtn., Jour. Arn. Arb. 20:379 (1939), type loc. 

 Kofa Mts., Ariz., Shreve 6257. 



4. CYNOGLOSSUM L. 



Ours coarse perennial herbs. Flowers borne in a terminal 

 panicle, the panicle loose or compact, raised on a naked pe- 

 duncle and composed of bractless racemes. Corolla blue or 

 pink, with a ring of conspicuous crests at the throat. Nutlets 

 large, covered all over with very short barbed prickles and 

 thus bur-like. — Species about 50, all continents. (Greek kuno, 

 dog, and glossa, tongue, on account of the shape and texture of 

 the leaves in some species.) 



Stems glabrous or nearly so; leaf -blades ovate, rounded or truncate at 

 base, all on long petioles 1. C. grande. 



Stems with spreading hairs; leaf -blades linear-oblong or linear-oblance- 

 olate, the upper sessile or partly clasping by a rounded or 

 auriculate base 2. C. occidentale. 



Fig. 411. CYNO- 

 GLOSSUM GRANDE 



Dougl. a, fl. branch- 

 let, X 1; 6, nutlet, 

 Xl%. 



1. C. grande Dougl. Western Hound's Tongue. (Fig. 

 411.) Stems erect, glabrous, 1 to 3 feet high; leaves mostly 

 basal or borne on the lower part of the stem, the blades ovate, 

 glabrous above or very thinly hirsutulose, hirsutulose beneath, 

 3 to 8 inches long, the petioles (glabrous or spreading-hirsute) 

 often as long ; calyx-lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent, 2 to 4 lines 

 long ; corolla 4 to 7 lines long, blue, the tube often purple, slightly longer than the 

 elliptic lobes ; crests thick, lunate; nutlets depressed. 



Shady wooded canons or in chamise on dry slopes, 10 to 2500 (or 5000) feet : 

 Coast Ranges (mostlj' in the outer range) from San Luis Obispo Co. to Siskiyou 

 Co. (common) ; Sierra Nevada foothills from Tulare Co. to Butte Co. (infrequent). 

 North to Washington. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo Co., Condit; Pacheco Pass (w.), 

 Hoover 2775; Loma Prieta, Santa Cruz Mts., Davy 467; Los Buellis Hills, Mt. Hamilton Range, 



B. J. Smith 20; Stanford, C. F. BaTcer 298; Strawberry Canon, Berkeley, Jepson; Gates Canon, 

 Vaca Mts., Jepson 21,073; St. Helena, Mary Pond; Ukiah, Purdy; Bull Creek, South Fork Eel 

 River, Constance 831; Crane Creek near Rosewood, w. Tehama Co., Jepson; Humboldt Hill, near 

 Eureka, Tracy 1047; Forest Glen, Trinity Co., Jepson; Elk Creek sta., Del Norte Co., B. Van 

 Deventer 57; Humbug, Siskiyou Co., Butler 594. Sierra Nevada foothills: Cedar Creek, Tulare 

 Co., Jepson 618; betw. Oak Flat and Badger, Tulare Co., H. P. Kelley; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., 

 A. L. Grant 645 ; Auburn, Sonne; Butte Creek, Butte Co., C. C. Bruce. 



Refs. — Cynoolossum grande Dougl.; Lchm., Pugill. 2:25 (1830), "Am. bor. oceid."; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 450 (1901), ed. 2, 351 (1911), Man. 838 (1925). C. laeve Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:188 

 (1878), tj-pe loc. Plumas Co., M. E. P. Ames. C. grande var. laeve Grav, I.e. ed. 2, 2:421 (1886). 



C. austinae Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 32:203 (1905), type loc. Butte Creek, Butte Co., C. C. Bruce. 



