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with a definite papilla in the hollow (Portal Ridge, Jepson 17,065), or yet again the tubercle may 

 become somewhat crater-like and bearing a distinct papilla in the crater (Portal Ridge, Jepson 

 17,059). In all these cases of crater-like tubercles, the tubercles rise from a brown ground. In 

 the case of var. clokeyi (.Jtn.) Jepson comb, n., the tubercles, likewise crateriform, are set on 

 a whitish or lighter-colored ground and the calyx (3 to 31/2 lines long) much surpasses the nutlets 

 (n. of Barstow, Mohave Desert). 



Var. jonesii Jtn. Stems 1 or few from the base, 5 to 20 inches high, ending in an umbellate 

 cyme, the spikes below the cyme borne on short branches; corollas % to % line broad. — Hillslopes, 

 often in chaparral, 1000 to 5500 feet: Coast Ranges from Glenn Co. to Monterey Co.; Sierra 

 Nevada from Nevada Co. to Kern Co. ; intramontane and cismontane Southern California. South 

 to Lower California, east to Nevada and Arizona. 



Field note. — The most marked habital or biotypic form of Cryptantha muricata var. jonesii 

 is developed in colonies which make open stands. The single .stem axis of plants in uncrowded 

 situations grows to a height of IV^ to 2 feet and develops a terminal umbellate-cymose inflorescence 

 of 3 to 9 spikes. Somewhat later, after the terminal cyme is established, the axis below becomes 

 "feathered" with short branches which bear 1, 2, or 3 spikes. The "feathering" may be light or 

 dense, in either case producing a narrow column, the main axis otherwise usually remaining un- 

 branehed. Such a growth form is characteristic of gravelly hilltops in Lake County, in Yosemite, 

 in the San Gabriel Mountains, and other semi-arid stations. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Alder Sprs. (9 mi. e. ), w. Glenn Co., Heller 11,450; Blue Lakes, nw. 

 Lake Co., Jepson 21,098; Cache Creek, n. of Lower Lake, Lake Co., Jepson 18,911 ; Reiff, Knox- 

 ville Ridge, se. Lake Co., Jepsun 18,995; Hood's Peak, e. Sonoma Co., Bioleiti; Mt. Tamalpais, 

 K. Brandegee; Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz Co., T. Brandegee ; Jamesburg, Monterey Co., W. I. Fol- 

 lett 73. Sierra Nevada: Bronco, e. Nevada Co., Sonne 396; Lettes sta., near Sonora Pass, A. L. 

 Grant 134; South Fork Tuolumne River bridge, A. L. Grant 841; Snow Creek, Yosemite, Jepson 

 10,487a; Hospital Rock, Middle Fork Kaweah River, TV. Fry 332 ; Kernville, T. Brandegee. Intra- 

 montane and cismontane S. Cal.: Arrastre Creek, San Gabriel Mts., Feirson 2470; Fontana, San 

 Bernardino Valley, Clokey 581S; Cajon Caiion, Jepson 6097; Strawberry Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, 

 Jepson 1298a; Elsinore (5 mi. n.), Jepson 12,429; Palomar Mt., San Diego Co., Jepson 1505a; 

 Wagon Wash near Sentenac Caiion, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 12,487 ; San Diego, Spencer 38. 



Refs. — Cryptantha muricata Nels. & Mcbr., Bot. Gaz. 61:42 (1916). Myosotis muricata 

 H. & A., Bot. Beech. 369 (1840), type from Cal., Douglas. Eritricliium muriculatnm A. DC, 

 Prodr. 10:132 (1846), a renaming (not Eritricliium muricatum A. DC, I.e.). Erynitskia mtiricu- 

 lata Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:273 (1885). C. muriculata Greene, Pitt. 1:113 (1887) ; Jepson, 

 Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 444 (1901), ed. 2, 347 (1911), Man. 848 (1925). C. horridula Greene, Pitt. 5:55 

 (1902), type loc. Salinas Valley. Var. clokeyi Jepson. C. clokeyi Jtn., Jour. Arn. Arb. 20:387 

 (1939), type loc. Barstow (n. of), Clolcey 6859. Var. jONESn Jtn., Plant World 22:114 (1919). 

 Krynitzkia jonesii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:274 (1885), type loc. Soledad, Monterey Co., Jones. 

 C. jonesii Greene, Pitt. 1:113 (1887) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 445 (1901), ed. 2, 347 (1911). 

 C. vitrea Eastw., Proc. Cal. Acad. ser. 3, 2:292 (1902), type loc. Bubbs Creek, Fresno Co., Ea.Ht- 

 u-ood. C. muriculata var. vitrea Jepson, Man. 848 (1925). Erynitzkia denticulata Greene, Bull. 

 Cal. Acad. 1:205 (1885), type from w. Nov., Curran. C. denticulata Greene, Pitt. 1:114 (1887). 

 C. muricata var. denticulata Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:71 (1925). 



6. C. intermedia Greene. Stem erect aud branching above, or diffusely 

 branched from base, I/2 to 1 foot high; herbage hispid with both appressed and 

 spreading hairs; leaf -blades lanceolate or linear, i/o to l^^ inches long, sessile or 

 narrowed to obscure petioles ; spikes u.snally in 2s or 3s, sometimes 4s or 5s, at first 

 dense, soon loose, and 1 to 31/2 inches long; calyx -lobes linear, % to 1 line long, in 

 fruit 11/2 to 2^2 lines long, densely villous-ciliate and villous inside, the back not 

 villous iDut set with long scattered spreading bristles ; corolla 1^-2 to 3i/4 lines broad ; 

 nutlets 4 (3 or 2), ovate-ro.strate or lanceolate-attenuate, obtiisish at apex, densely 

 and coarsely tuberculate dorsally and also ventrally, the lateral angles obtuse 

 and tuberculate, the ventral groove closed or open, triangular-areolate or forked 

 at base. 



Sandy or gravelly valley iioors or washes or on foothill slopes or rocky canon 

 bottoms, 200 to 6000 feet : Coast Ranges from western Siskiyou Co. to San Luis 

 Obispo Co.; upper Sacramento Valley; Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta Co. 

 to Tuolumne Co. ; western Mohave Desert ; cismontane Southern California. South 

 into Lower California. Apr. -June. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Scott River Valley, w. Siskiyou Co., Gilbert: Hupa Valley, Jepson 

 2025; Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Jepson 16,.317; Stonyford, w. Glenn Co., Jepson 16,291 ; Bell 

 Caiion, Howell Mt., Napa Range, Jepson 18,861; Soledad, Monterey Co., Congdon; Templcton, 



