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BORAGINACEAE 



2. C. occidentale Gray. Sierra Hound's Tongue. (Fig. ■412.) Stems erect, 

 leafy, 1 to several from the root-crown, 1 to 1% feet high; herbage hirsute, the 

 hairs recurviug or spreading, the leaves often velvety ; leaves 2 to 8 inches long, 

 the blades linear-oblong or linear-oblanceolate (mostly % to 1^2 inches wide), the 

 upper sessile or clasping by a rounded or auricular base, the lower narrowed to 

 short petioles ; basal or sub-basal leaves long-petioled, the lowermost represented 

 by narrowlj' lanceolate scale-like organs; flowers somewhat capitate in a small 

 terminal roundish cymose panicle or the panicle sometimes a little elongated; 

 calyx-lobes linear to lanceolate, obtuse, 2 to 3 times longer than the tube ; corolla 

 brownish-pink, drying greenish, 4 to 4V^ lines long, the eylindric tube abruptly 



expanded into a dilated throat, equaling or 

 slightly longer than the calyx-lobes and 2 to 

 3 times as long as the corolla-lobes; crests 

 tongue-like, retuse or obtuse; nutlets almost 

 globular, 4 lines long. 



Moist open woods or in thickets on moun- 

 tain slopes or flats, 4000 to 7000 feet : Sierra 

 Nevada from Kern Co. to Modoc and Shasta 

 Cos. ; North Coast Ranges from Humboldt 

 and Trinity Cos. to western Siskij-ou Co. 

 North to eastern Oregon. May-July. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada : Freeman Creek, Kern 

 River, Tulare Co., Jepson 4882; Little Kern Elver 

 near Deep Creek, Jepson 4912 ; betw. Colony Mill 

 and Marble Fork Kaweah Eiver, Jepson 657; Hunt- 

 ington Lake, A. L. Grant 1476 ; Hodgdon ranch, near 

 Tuolumne Grove, Jepson 10,547 ; Center Camp, betw. 

 Yankee Hill and Confidence, Tuolumne Co., A. L. 

 Grant 762; betw. Brightman Flat and Eagle Mdw., 

 Tuolumne Co., Hoover 3693 ; Myers sta., Eldorado 

 Co., Ottley 977; Sierra Valley, Lemmon ; Jonesvillo, 

 Butte Co., Copeland; Goose Valley, ne. Shasta Co., 

 BaTcer Sr Nutting; Forestdale, Modoc Co., M. S. 

 Baker; Mt. Shasta, Jepson 21,074. North Coast 

 Ranges: Brannan Mt., n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 3424 ; 

 Coffee Creek, Salmon Mts., n. Trinity Co., Hall 8632 ; 

 Sisson, Jepson 21,075; Highland Mine, w. Siskiyou 

 Co., Butler 940. 



Refs. — Ctnoglossum occidentale Grav, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 10:58 (1874), type from the "Sie'rra Ne- 

 vada in ne. part of Cal.," Burgess; Jepson, Man. 

 838 (1925). C. viride Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 6:428, pi. 59 (1896)' type loc. "Sequoia 

 Mills" (now Millwood), Fresno Co., Eastwood; the herbage is densely puberulent but several 

 collections exhibit intergradational states to the ordinary hirsute form of C. occidentale. 



5. LAPPULA Moench. Stick-seed 



Tall leafy-stemmed herbs ; herbage pubescent or hispid. Flowers medium-sized 

 or small, blue, white or sometimes pink, disposed in a panicle or cluster of racemes. 

 Leaves entire, the upper sessile, the lower tapering to a winged petiole. Calyx 

 5-parted. Corolla rotate or short-salverform, tlie throat more or less closed with 

 saccate crests. Nutlets large, bur-like, keeled ventrally, flattened on the back, 

 armed with much-flattened barbed spines or prickles which are usually lance- 

 acuminate or subulate in shape and set in a row on a distinct margin or over the 

 entire back. — Species about 54, all continents. (Diminutive of the Latin lappa, 

 a bur. ) 



Annuals; racemes leafy-bractcate throughout, the bracts small or even minute; calyx in fruit 

 longer than the pedicels; pedicels in fruit remaining erect; nutlets united % of the way 

 up by the ventral keel to the slender gynobase; transmontane deserts. 

 Dorsal area of nutlets bordered by a row of prickles, the margin not thickened or scarcely so.... 



1. L. redowshii. 



Fig. 412. CYNOGLOSSUil OCCIDENTALE 



Gray, a, habit, X % ; b, corolla, X 1^2 ; 

 c, long. sect, of fl., X 2 ; d, f r., X 1. 



