336 BORAGINACEAE 



Gravelly slopes or flats, 4800 to 5800 feet : Sierra Nevada from Nevada Co. 

 to Modoc Co. and eastern Siskiyou Co. East to Utah, north to Washington. 

 June-July. 



Locs. — Truckee, Sonne; Portola, Plumas Co., K. Brandegee; Goose Lake, ne. Modoc Co., 

 Austin 4- Bruce 2267 ; Little Shasta Valley, Jepson 19,992 ; Andesite sta., n. of Mt. Shasta, Jepson 

 20,028. 



Var. echinella (Greene) Jepson & Hoover comb. n. Stem erect, branching, 2 to 12 inches 

 high ; spikes solitary or somewhat capitate or glomerate at first with the spikes soon loose and the 

 flowers remote or discrete; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate or filiform, densely villous-ciliate, the 

 strong midrib armed with long 'scattered spreading bristles; calyx in fruit 2 lines long; coroUa 

 minute, \h to % line broad : nutlets narrow-ovate, shortly attenuate or rostellate, minutely but 

 rather thickly muriculate (the muriculations like needle-points), the lateral angles obtuse, the 

 ventral side with mostly closed groove and closed basal fork. — Dry gravelly ground in open woods 

 or on open sandy liills, 2400 to 9000 feet: Sierra Nevada, east side and east slope, and also west 

 slope but mostly on high or easterly summits, from eastern Nevada Co. to Inyo and Tulare Cos. ; 

 Mt. Piiios region to the San Bernardino Mts. East to Nevada and Arizona. July- Aug. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada, east side: Castle Peak, Nevada Co., Heller 7079; Tahoe City, Boring; 

 Mammoth, Mono Co., K. Brandegee ; Andrews Camp, Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., K. Brandegee ; 

 Tuber Caiion, Panamint Bange, Eovanitz. Sierra Nevada, west slope: Belief Creek, Middle Fork 

 Stanislaus River, Hoover 3657; betw. Pumice Flat and Shadow Lake, Madera Co., Ferris 8823; 

 Bubbs Creek, Fresno Co., Jepson 806 ; Alta Mdws., Tulare Co., K. Brandegee. Intramoutane S. 

 Cal.: SawmUl Mt., n. Ventura Co., Hall 6523; Ontario Eidge, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 3200; 

 Little Green Valley, San Bernardino Mts., G. B. Hall 24. 



Eefs. — Ckyptantha ambigua Greene, Pitt. 1:113 (1887); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 444 

 (1901), ed. 2, 347 (1911), Man. 848, excluding fig. 803 (1925). Eritrichium muriciilatum var. 

 amhiguum Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:194 (1878), resting initially upon Eritrichium muriculatum Torr., 

 Phanerogamia of Pacific Coast, Wilkes Exped. 416, t. ISA (1874), type loc. Nisqually, Wash.; 

 not E. muriculatum A. DC. Erynitzhia ambigua Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:273 (1885). C. poly- 

 carpa Greene, Pitt. 1:114 (1887), type loc. Truckee, Sonne. Var. echinella Jepson & Hoover. 

 C. echinella Greene, Pitt. 1:115 (1887), type loc. Castle Peak ("Mt. Stanford"), e. Nevada Co., 

 Sonne. 



3. 0. mariposae Jtn. Stem branching, 3 to 8 inches high ; herbage spreading- 

 or ascending-hirsute ; leaves oblong or oblanceolate, thickish, 4 to 8 lines long ; spikes 

 mostly few, corymbose, 1/2 to IY2 inches long; calyx-lobes linear, ascending-hirsute 

 and spreading-bristly, the bristles towards the tip shorter and curved ; corolla 1 to 

 11/2 lines broad; nutlets 4 (or 2 or 3), ovate, rostrate from a broad body, truncate 

 at "base, low-rounded on back, convexly 2-planed on face, obtuse on the lateral 

 angles, thickly or thinly tuberculate, the ventral groove with an open areola at 

 base ; style shorter than nutlets. 



Serpentine rocks on hillslopes, 1000 to 2000 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from 

 Calaveras Co. to Mariposa Co. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Harmon Peak, Calaveras Co., Davy 1423; betw. Coulterville and Bagby, Mariposa Co., 

 Hoover 3398; Mariposa, Congdon. The nutlets are quite similar to those of Cryptantha ambigua 

 and in nearly all other respects Cryptantha mariposae is very close to that species, although it is 

 well segregated from it geographically. 



Kef. — Cryptantha makiposae Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:73 (1925), type loc. Mariposa, 

 Congdon. 



4. C. simvdans Greene. (Fig. 416.) Stem slender, lanldy or openly branch- 

 ing with very slender branches, 6 to 14 inches high; herbage ascending-hispid; 

 leaf-blades linear, 1/2 to IVi inches long; spikes in Is, 2s or 3s, I/2 to 1% inches long ; 

 calyx-lobes narrowly linear and dilated at base or narrow-lanceolate, densely set 

 with bristles, the bristles on upper half uniformly short and downwardly curved, 

 the bristles on lower half longer and spreading or curved downward ; corolla i/4 

 to 34 line broad ; fruiting calyx 2 lines long ; nutlets 4, broadly ovate, shortly rostel- 

 late, bro^vn, the flattish back with scattered tubercles set on a ground microscopi- 

 cally but densely tessellate-papiUate, the angles rounded, the ventral groove and 

 its basal fork closed. 



Dry rocky or gravelly slopes or on flats in the mountains, in granite sand, 2000 

 to 6700 feet: mountains of Southern California; Tehachapi Mts.; Sierra Nevada 



