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from Kern Co. to Modoc Co. and eastern Siskiyou Co. ; North Coast Ranges from 

 Trinity Co. to western Siskiyou Co. East to western Nevada, north to Washing- 

 ton. May-July. 



Loc3. — S. Cal. mts. : Cuyamaca Peak, T. Bra-ndegee ; Onstatt Valley, San Jacinto Mts., Ball; 

 Little Green Valley, San Bernardino Mts., G. E. Ball; Icehouse Caiion, San Antonio Mts., Parish 

 11,944; Mt. Wilson, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 2157. Tehachapi Mts.: near Tehachapi Peak, 

 Dudley 347. Sierra Nevada: Eound Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 678; betw. Colony Mill and 

 Marble Fork, Tulare Co., Jepson 6C4a; Huntington Lake, Fresno Co., A. L. Grant; Yosemite 

 Valley, Jepson 10,467; Calaveras Big Trees, Greene; near Alpine Camp, upper Truckee River, 

 Eldorado Co., H. M. Wheeler; Truckee, Nevada Co., Heller 7060; Milford, Lassen Co., T. Bran- 

 degee; Mt. Shasta, T. Walker; Fandango Pass, Warner Mts., J. T. Sowell 12,043. North Coast 

 Ranges: summit of New River trail, betw. Dyer's 

 ranch and Hawkins Bar, Trinity Co., Jepson 1997; 

 Sisson, Siskiyou Co., Seller 8035. 



Refs. — Cryptantha simulans Greene, Pitt. 

 5:54 (1902), type loc. Amador Co., Hansen. C. am- 

 bigua Jepson, Man. fig. 803 (1925). C. ambigna f. 

 sunulans Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4=":68 (1931). 

 C. stuebelil Brand; Fedde, Eepert. Sp. Nov. 24:58 

 (1927), type loc. Yosemite Valley, Stuebel. 



5. C. muricata Nels. & Mebr. Stem ro- 

 bust, branching, !/■. to 2 feet high; herbage 

 spreading, rough-hirsute ; leaf -blades linear, 

 y2 to 1 inch long; spikes rather dense, borne 

 in 2s to 5s (or 9s) terminally on the main 

 axis or often also in 2s or 3s on the lateral 

 branchlets ; calyx-lobes lanceolate or linear, 

 lYz lines long, shortly ascending-hirsute and 

 long spreading-bristly ; corolla 2 to 3 lines 

 broad; nutlets 4, triangular-ovate, acute, 

 truneatish at base, 1 line long, tuberculate 

 or muriculate dorsally and also sometimes 

 somewhat rugulose, the lateral margins well- 

 defined, ridged towards base, sometimes 

 sharp or sometimes a little rounded, ventral 

 side convexly 2-planed, the ventral groove 

 and its strong basal fork mostly closed. 



Gravelly or rocky open slopes or washes 

 or opens in chaparral, 200 to 8000 feet : 



Coast Ranges from Contra Costa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co.; Sierra Nevada in 

 Kern Co. ; Tehachapi Mts. ; intramontane and cismontane Southern California 

 from Santa Barbara Co. to Orange Co. May-July. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 808; Big Sur, Monterey coast. Hoover 2679; 

 Cuyama Valley, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Jepson 12,158. Sierra Nevada in Kern Co.: Poso Mine, 

 Poso Creek, Greenhorn Mts., C. N. Smith 189; lower Kern Canon, Greenhorn foothills, Allison 

 Krames. Tehachapi Mts.: Tehachapi, K. Brandegee. Intramontane and cismontane S. Cal.: 

 Sycamore Canon, Santa Barbara, Jepson 9135; Portal Ridge, n. Los Angeles Co., Jepson 17,065; 

 Leonis Valley, n. Los Angeles Co., Davy 2648; Castaic Creek (mts. above), n. Los Angeles Co. 

 Jepson 8933; San Gabriel Caiion, San Gabriel Mts., Clokey 5667; Waterman Caiion, San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., Jepson 5524; Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 1299; Anaheim Plain, Alice 

 King. 



Note on fruit. — The nutlets, usually brown, are flattish dorsally and commonly carry an ob- 

 scure median dorsal keel ; usually the ventral side is conve.xly 2-planed though sometimes flattish. 

 The groove is long-forked at base. The style about equals the nutlets. Variation in the surface 

 sculpturing of the nutlets is marked. In the prevailing form the nutlet is densely tuberculate- 

 or it may be thinly tuberculate; sometimes it is tuberculate and roughly sharp rugulose (Mt. 

 Diablo, Bowerman 808,- — det. R. F. Hoover). In the mountains on the west side of the Mohave 

 Desert, the tubercles may be slender with the apex flat-topped and capped by a microscopic papilla 

 (Cuyama Valley, Jepson 12,158), or some of the tubercles may bo depressed or hoUowed at apex 



Fig. 416. Cryptantha simulans 

 Greene, n, habit, X %; b, fl., X 4; c, 

 nutlet, dorsal view, X 8; d, nutlet, ventral 

 view, X 8. 



