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calyx hispidnlose, the tips of the lobes with several uncinate bristles; nutlets 4 and 

 equably divergent (or sometimes but 2), 1 line long, cuueate-rhomboid or obovate- 

 rhomboid, earinately nerved on the upper face, not winged, the margin bearing 

 a row of slender uncinate bristles. 



"Wooded or open slopes in the hills, 500 to 2800 feet : Coast Ranges from western 

 Merced Co. and Santa Clara Co. to western Siskiyou Co.; Sierra Nevada foothills 

 from Kern Co. to eastern Siskiyou Co. North to Washington. Also in Chile. 

 Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Paeheco Pass, Hoover 4024; Los Altos, 5 mi. w., in Santa Cruz Mts., 

 Kech 4350; Portola, San Mateo Co., Elmer 4fi76; Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 2019; St. Helena (hills 

 near), Jepson 21,091; Potter Valley, e. Mendocino Co., Purpus 34; Covelo ranger sta.. Middle 

 Eel River, e. Mendocino Co., Duran 3392 ; Three Forks of Mad River, Trinity Co., Tracy 10,180 ; 

 Oro Fiuo, Siskiyou Co., Butler 614. Sierra Nevada foothills: Woody (Vi nii. se.), Greenhorn 

 Mts., C. N. Smith 340 ; California Hot Sprs., Tulare Co., EecTc 4- Stockwell 3327 ; Pinehurst, Fresno 

 Co., Newlon 187; Piedra (e. of). Kings River Caiion, Hoover 3986; North Fork, Madera Co., 

 Bacigalupi 2316; Mormon Bar, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,776; Avery, Calaveras Co., Tracy 5718; 

 Placerville, K. Brandegee; Stillwater, Shasta Co., M. S. Balcer. In mature nutlets the margin 

 is usually a little cord-like and the upper face sometimes microscopically hirsutulose. 



Refs.— Pectoc.^.rya pusilla Gav, Fl. Chilena 4:482, t. 52, fig. 3 (1849); Jepson, Fl. W. 

 Mid. Cal. 449 (1901), ed. 2, 351 (1911), Man. 841 (1925). Gruvelia pusilla A. DC, Prodr. 

 10:119 (1846), type from Chile, Poeppig 276. P. chilcnsis var. californica Torr., Pac. R. Rep. 

 4:124 (1857), type loc. Murphy's, Calaveras Co. (by error "Los Angeles"), Bigelow, May 14, 

 1854; other records in the same volume (Pac. R. Rep. 4:67, 68, 69, 72) show that on that date 

 Bigelow was collecting at Murphy's. P. pusilla var. flagellaris Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-"'-:96 

 (1921), type loc. Klickitat Co., Wash., Sulsdorf 410; "inflorescentiae longiores quam cetera para 

 plantae ; . . . nuculae 2-4," whereas, the Chilean plant, says Brand, has shorter inflorescences and 

 usually fewer nutlets than the North American plant, but Californian plants are highly variable 

 in these respects and it is thought such differences are unimportant. 



2. P. penicillata A.DC. Stems few or several from the base, diffuse, 1 to 8 

 inches high; leaf -blades filiform or linear, 1/4 to 1^/4 inches long; nutlets divergent 

 in pairs, oblong, 1 to II/2 lines long, surrounded by a wing which is markedly 

 developed at apex and incurved or subobsolete along the middle, and bears at the 

 rounded apex a series or tuft of slender bristles hooked at the tip ; middle of the 

 wing naked or sometimes with a few bristles; bristles always slender, not dilated 

 or triangular at base. 



Sandy valleys, hillsides and canon flats, 100 to 2000 (or 5000) feet: Coast 

 Ranges; Great Valley; Sierra Nevada foothills from Madera Co. to Kern Co.; 

 east side of the Sierra Nevada in Lassen Co.; Tehachapi Mts.; JMohave Desert; 

 coastal Southern California ; western Colorado Desert. South to Lower California, 

 east to Arizona and Wyoming, north to British Columbia. Mar. -June. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Junction City, Trinity Co., Tracy 6428; Paskenta (6 mi. w.), w. Te- 

 hama Co., Virginia Bailey: Sand Creek, sw. Colusa Co., Hoover 3220; Callayomi Valley, s. Lake 

 Co., Jepson 17,418; Calistoga, Jepson 21,224; Lake Merced, San Francisco, Tracy 1813; Castle 

 Rock, Corral Hollow, w. San Joaquin Co., Jepson 9592 ; Emmet, San Benito Co., Jepson 18,111 ; 

 Old Tully School, Bitterwater Valley, s. San Benito Co., Jepson 16,140; Paso Robles, Barber. 

 Great Valley: Stillwater Creek, Shasta Co., 11. S. Baker; Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 

 21,090; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Chowchilla (8 mi. w.), Madera Co., Hoover 1680. 

 Sierra Nevada foothills: Fresno Flats, Madera Co., Jepson 12,847; betw. Pinehurst and Badger, 

 Fresno Co., Newlon 182 ; Weldon, Kern Co., Voegelin 94. Sierra Nevada, east side, in Las.sen Co. : 

 Beekwith Pass, Jepson 7770. Tehachapi Mts.: Rowen, Jepson 6731. Mohave Desert: Needles, 

 Jones; Saltdale, Jepson 19,513a; Lancaster, Jepson 17,042; Fairmont, Jepson 19,233. Coastal 

 S. Cal.: San Francisquito Canon, n. Los Angeles Co., Clokey 4674; Santa Catalina Isl. (Erythea 

 7:143); Thomas Valley, San Jacinto Mts., Jepson 1323; Elsinore, sw. Riverside Co., Jepson 

 19,149; Oak Grove, San Diego Co., Jepson 19,203. Colorado Desert: Mason Valley, e. San Diego 

 Co., Jepson 8720; Jacumba, se. San Diego Co., C. V. Meyer 429. 



Refs.— Pectocarya penichxata A.DC, Prodr. 10:120 (1846) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 449 

 (1901), ed. 2. 351 (1911), Man. 841 (1925). Cynoglossum penicillatum H. & A., Bot. Beech. 371 

 (1840), type from Cal., Douglas. P. linearis var. penicillata Jones, Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 2, 5:709 

 (1895). 



3. P. heterocarpa Jtn. Habit and size similar to P. penicillata ; two nutlets 

 narrower and unwinged or with narrow margins, the other two nutlets with rather 



