322 BORAGINACEAE 



Refs. — Amsinckia tessellata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10:54 (1875), type loc. near Mt. 

 Diablo, Brewer 1119; Jepson, Man. 844 (1925). A. collina Greene, Man. Reg. S. F. Bay 263 

 (1894), type loc. hills e. of Livermore Valley, Greene; W. N. Suksdorf (Werdenda 105) cites 

 under this name the locality, Mountain House (now Venado), sw. Colusa Co., A'. Brandegee, but 

 it must be said: (1) A. tessellata has not as yet been found elsewhere in the North Coast Ranges; 

 (2) the plant labeling habits of the collector were disorderly ; (3) the label of the Mountain House 

 specimen is plainly not contemporary with the plants. A. puslulata Hel., Muhl. 2:243 (1906), 

 type loc. Laws, Inyo Co., Heller 8204. A. tessellata var. macrosepala Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 12 :58 

 (1908), type loc. Reno, Nov., Jones. A. macrosepala Suksd., Werdenda 108 (1931). A. conica 

 Suksd., I.e. 104 (1931), type loc. Fort Tejon, Kern Co., Hall 6284. A. tnrrita Suksd., I.e., type 

 loc. betw. Alcalde and Coalinga, Eastwood 13,539. A. suhintegra Suksd., I.e. 105, type loc. Water 

 Cation, Tehachapi Mts., At>rams 4" McGregor 484. A. platycarpa Suksd. I.e. 106, type loc. Bakers- 

 field, Eastwood. A. dudleyi Suksd., I.e. 106, type loc. Tehachapi Mts., Dudley 490. A. rostellata 

 Suksd., I.e., 107, type loc. Mohave sta., Mohave Desert, Eastwood 3205. A. remotifructus Suksd., 

 I.e. 107, type loc. iPort Bidwell, Modoc Co., Manning 181. A. ovaticarpa Suksd., I.e. 108, type loc. 

 Paso Robles, Eastwood 13,829. A. mojavensis Suksd., I.e. 108, type loc. Bonanza King Mine, 

 Providence Mts., Mum, Johnston 4" Barwood 4046. A. marginaXa Suksd., I.e. 109, type loc. 

 Delano, Kern Co., Eastwood 3953. A. deltoidea Suksd., I.e. 110, type loc. betw. Jacumba and 

 Mountain Sprs., e. San Diego Co., Eastwood 9520. A. salebrosa Suksd., I.e. 110, type loc. Perris, 

 Riverside Co., Hall 2761. A. obliqua Suksd., I.e. Ill, type loc. King City, Monterey Co., Eastwood 

 4003. A. brachyantha Suksd., I.e., type loc. Bakersfield, Eastwood. 



5. A. glomerata Suksd. Stems bushy-branched, Yo to 2 feet high; herbage 

 white setose-liirsute, the hairs arising from disk-like pustules at base, the spikes 

 and calyces beset with yellowish or white bristles ; leaf -blades linear to oblong or 

 the upper ones lanceolate or ovate, Vo to 3 inches long, mostly sessile ; spikes many, 

 dense, 1 to 2 inches long, terminal on the stems and main branches, usually with 

 shorter ones borne in the forks or on short lateral branchlets ; calyx-lobes conspicu- 

 ously bristly-hispid ; corolla yellow, salverform, 2 to 3 lines long, the throat con- 

 tracted and the limb abruptly spreading, the folds at the throat hairy; stamens 

 borne below middle of corolla-tube ; nutlets flatfish on the back but with a low sharp 

 keel, densely rough-tcssellate, not markedly incurved, seldom murieate, not rugose, 

 or rugose only toward the narrowed apex. 



Dry sandy flats, 20 to 250 feet : lower San Joaquin Valley from San Joaquin Co. 

 and eastern Contra Costa Co. to Madera Co. Apr.-June. 



Field note. — Amsinckia glomerata, although characteristic of the driest habitats, continues 

 vegetatively active later in the year than Amsinckia intermedia. Where the two grow together, 

 Amsinckia glomerata exhibits a different appearance by reason largely of its white rather than 

 rusty hairs. In the field, it was further observed that Amsinckia glomerata is distinguishable by 

 its salverform corolla and densely villous-cUiate calyx-lobes, but either feature may be found 

 occasionally in plants which seem referable to Amsinckia intermedia. — R. F. Hoover. 



Loes. — Lathrop, San Joaquin Co., Hoover 2179 ; betw. Mossdale School and Atlanta, San 

 Joaquin Co., Jepson lOOd; Tracy, T. Brandegee; Modesto (5 mi. s.), Hoover 1221; Merced (10 

 mi. w.), Hoover 1113; Cottonwood Creek, Madera Co., Hoover 867. 



Refs. — Amsinckia glomerata Suksd., "Werdenda 52 (1931), type loc. Modesto, K. Brande- 

 gee. A. straminea Suksd., I.e. 54, type loc. Antioch, Davy 887. A. setosissima Suksd., I.e. 55, 

 type loc. San Joaquin Co., plains betw. Mossdale School and Atlanta, Jepson lOOd. 



6. A. intermedia F. & M. Ranchers Fireweed. (Fig. 415.) Stem erect, 

 slender and strict, or coarse and frequently widely branched, II/2 to 4 feet high; 

 herbage and spikes spreading bristly-hispid ; leaf-blades linear to oblong or lanceo- 

 late, thickish, entire, 1 to 9 inches long, sessile or the lowest narrowed to a petiole ; 

 spikes leafy-bracteate at base, 2 to 4 or at length 5 to 10 inches long, peduncled; 

 calyx-lobes linear-acuminate, rusty-hispid, 1/2 as long as the corolla, in fruit twice 

 as long as the nutlets; corolla dark or orange-yellow, 4 to 5 lines long, 1 to 3 lines 

 wide ; nutlets incurved, keeled dorsally, scabrous-rugose or sharply rugose and the 

 areolae or intervals minutely papillate or murieate, usually gray, I14 to II/2 liues 

 long. 



Sandy or clay soil of valley flats or hillslopes, often forming rank thickets, 20 

 to 5500 feet : common throughout cismontane California, rare in the Mohave Desert 

 but occurring in intramontane Southern California on the west margins of the 

 Colorado Desert. South to Lower California, east to Arizona and north to Idaho. 

 Mar.-June. 



