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southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare and Kern Cos. ; San Bernardino Mts. (n. slope) . 

 East to Colorado and New Mexico. May-July. 



Loes. — Mono Lake, Ottley 1070 ; Long Valley, betw. Bishop and Mammoth, Inyo Co., K. Bran- 

 degee; Olancha Mt., Tulare Co., Hall 4- Babcoclc 5270 ; Hunter Range, se. of Saline Valley, S. W. 

 Austin; Wild Rose Canon, Panamint Mts., Parish 10,167; Mt. Laura, Erskine Creek, Kern Co., 

 Purpus 5323; Cactus Flat, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 4887. 



Refs.— Oreocarya confertiflora Greene, Pitt. 3:112 (1896), type loe. Cushenbury Sprs., 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish; Jepson, Man. 845 (1925). 0. leucophaea var. confertiflora Parish, 

 Erythea 7:95 (1899). Cryptantha confertiflora Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14:256 (1927). 

 0. lutea Greene, Muhl. 2 :240 (1906), Silver Canon, White Mts., Heller 8211, nomen nudum; Fedde, 

 Repert. Sp. Nov. 19:72 (1923). 



8. 0. abortiva Greene. Stems decumbent or prostrate, several from the root- 

 crown, leafy, 3 to 5 inches long ; herbage strigulose, also with a few scattered spread- 

 ing bristly hairs; leaves 3 to 5 inches long, the blades linear-oblanceolate to linear, 

 gradually drawn down to a petiole-like base, mostly exceeding the panicles ; racemes 

 short, leafy-bracteate, borne in a thyrsoid panicle, the panicle 1 to 2 inches long; 

 calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, the tube very short; corolla white, 1^/^ to 2 lines long, 

 the limb IV2 to 2 lines broad, the tube not exceeding the calyx ; nutlets 1 to 4, ovate, 

 smooth and polished, curved dorsally, the ventral side strongly and convexly 

 2-planed so as to make a high keel with the carina grooved on lower % and diver- 

 gently forked below ; scar linear, lying in the groove. 



Gravelly montane fiats, sometimes associated with Artemisia tridentata, 6500 

 to 10,200 feet : San Bernardino Mts. (towards the desert side) ; Inyo and Mono Cos. 

 East to southern Nevada. June-July. 



Locs. — Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3694; Campito Mt., White Mts., e. Inyo 

 Co., Jepson 7290; Hot Creek, below Fales Hot Sprs., Mono Co., Hoover 5448. 



Refs. — Oreocarya abortiva Greene, Pitt. 3:114 (1896), type loe. Bear Valley, San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., Parish. KrynitsTcia multicaulis var. abortiva Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 13:5 (1910). 

 0. suffruticosa var. abortiva Mcbr., Proc. Am. Acad. 51:547 (1916) ; Jepson, Man. 845 (1925). 

 Cryptantha jamesii Payson var. abortiva Payson, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14:250 (1927). Hemi- 

 sphaerocarya abortiva Brand; Fedde, Repert. Sp. Nov. 24:61 (1927). 



12. GREENEOCHARIS Gurke & Harms 



Low or dwarfish densel3' branched annuals, the numerous branchlets ending in 

 leafy spikes. Herbage hispid or canescent, staining paper with a purple dye. 

 Caljrx 5-cleft to the middle, the scarious tube circumscissile about midway, the 

 upper part falling, the lower cupulate portion bearded with a densely hairy ring 

 and persistent around the ovate nutlets. Corolla minute, white. — Species 1. (E. L. 

 Greene, distinguished American botanist and writer on western borages, and Greek 

 charis, grace or beauty. ) 



1. G. circumscissa Rydb. Stems few or several from the base, compactly much 

 branched, forming low dense rounded or subglobose plants II/2 to 7 inches high and 

 1 to 8 inches broad; herbage with appressed or ascending hairs or (especially the 

 stems) canescent; leaf -blades linear, alternate or some of the lower opposite, 3 to 

 7 lines long ; flowers sessile in the axils of the leaves or crowded in leafy-bracteate 

 clusters at the ends of the branchlets; calyx hispid (the long straight erect hairs 

 forming a crowded band on lower portion of tube), angular, early circumscissile 

 by a wavy margin ; corolla 1 to l^^ lines long, I/2 to % line broad, the throat naked 

 and open ; nutlets ovate or lanceolate, rounded on the back, .smooth or finely papil- 

 late, ^2 line long, the angles very acute. 



Sandy or gravelly soil of desert mesas or arid mountain slopes, 800 to 6000 (or 

 7500) feet : eastern slope or east side of the Sierra Nevada from Lassen Co. to Inyo 

 Co. ; southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare and Kern Cos.; central and western Mohave 

 Desert and its westerly bordering ranges ; western Colorado Desert. South to 

 Lower California, east to Arizona, north to British Columbia. Argentina, South 

 America. Apr. -July. 



