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San Luis Obispo Co., Davy 7596. Upper Sacramento Valley: Crane Creek, w. Tehama Co., Jcpson 

 21,097; Chico (3 mi. n.). Hoover 2234; Marysville Buttes, Heller 11,368. Sierra Nevada foot- 

 hills: Tamarack road at Stalker's, ne. Shasta Co., il. S. Baker 341; Willow Springs road sta., 

 Amador Co., Jcpson 15,226 ; San Antonio Creek, Calaveras Co., Davy 1567 ; Jacksonville, Tuolumne 

 Co., Hoover 1957. Mohave Desert: Barstow, Jepson 5515. Cismontane S. Cal. : Santa Barbara, 

 Jepson 9153; Ojai Valley, Thacher 39; Simi Valley, s. Ventura Co., Jepson 8460; San Fernando, 

 Jepson 19,220; Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 320; Arrastre Creek, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 402; San Timoteo Canon, Jepson 0084; San Gorgonio Pass, Jcpson 17,079; Strawberry 

 Valley, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2267 ; Riverside, Jepson 1212 ; Anaheim plain, Alice King ; Elsi- 

 nore, sw. Riverside Co., Jepson 19,156; Aguanga, sw. Riverside Co., Jepson 17,159; Cootca, 

 Palomar Mt., Jepson 1514 ; Escondido, C. V. Meyer 18 ; San Pasqual Valley, San Diego Co., Jepson 

 19,175; Mesa Grande, San Diego Co., E. Ferguson 31; Del Mar, San Diego Co., Jepson 1618; 

 La Mesa near San Diego, Jepson 6689. 



Var. rigida Brand. Corolla minute (M: to % line broad). — San Joaquin Valley and its bor- 

 dering foothills ; southwestern Mohave Desert and bordering ranges. 



Locs. — Inner South Coast Range: Tassajara Creek, near Mt. Diablo, Hoover 3348; Corral 

 Hollow, Alameda Co., Hoover 3041; Tres Pinos (4 mi. s.), Ferris 8336; Alcalde, sw. Fresno Co., 

 T. Brandcgee ; McKittrick, Kern Co., Heller 7788; White Hills, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Clokey 

 5823. San Joaquin Valley: Huron, Fresno Co., Eastwood ; Tulare, Davy 3132; Bakersfield, Davy 

 1875; Pampa sta., Kern Co., Heller 7645. Sierra Nevada: Long Barn (ridge above), Tuolumne 

 Co., Hoover 2501a (det. K. F. Hoover) ; Poso Creek, Greenhorn Mts., C. N. Smith 62; Bodfish, 

 Kern Co., Jepson 19,886. Tehachapi Mts.: Keene, Jepson 7159. Southwestern Mohave Desert 

 and its bordering ranges: Palmdale to Little Rock, Davy 2291; Vietorville (10 mi. s.). Mum 

 12,435; Balihvin Lake, San Bernardino Mts., Fosierg 10,089. 



Var. hendersonii (Piper) Jepson & Hoover comb. n. Calyx-lobes linear, dark green, densely 

 short-hispid and sparsely yellowish short-bristly, the midrib prominent; corolla 1% to 3 lines 

 broad; nutlets 1 or 2 (sometimes 3 or 4). ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sparingly and often obscurely 

 tuberculate on a microscopically tessellate ground, or varying to quite smooth (even in the same 

 colony), subflattish on back, the lateral angles obtuse or acute; ventral side convexly 2-pIaned, the 

 groove closed or open. — Dry slopes or gravelly flats, 2500 to 4500 feet: northern Sierra Nevada 

 (transmontane) from Lassen Co. to Siskiyou Co.: Milford, I. Brandcgee ; Surprise Valley, e. 

 Modoc Co., Jepson 7843; Deep Creek, Warner Mts., L. S. Smith 1115; Andesite, Siskiyou Co., 

 Jepson 20,029. North to Idaho and Washington. 



Refs. — Cryptantha intermedia Greene, Pitt. 1:114 (1887); Jepson, Man. 848 (1925). 

 Eritrichium intermedium Gray, Proo. Am. Acad. 17:225 (1882), type loc. Los Angeles, Nevin. 

 Krynitzkia intermedia Gray, I.e. 20:273 (1885). C. intermedia var. johnstonii Mcbr., Contrib. 

 Gray Herb. 56:59 (1918), type loc. CUiremont, Los Angeles Co., Johnston 1938. (?) C. hanscnii 

 Brand; Fedde, Repert. Sp. Nov. 24:58 (1927), type loc. Rancheria, Amador Co., Hansen 1728 

 (referred here by I. M. Johnston). C. hanscnii var. pulchella Brand, I.e., type loc. Drytown, 

 Amador Co., Hansen 1581. Var. rigida Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-"-: 70 (1931). C. nevadensis var. 

 rigida Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:68 (1925), type loc. "hills bordering Mohave Desert," Pringle. 

 Var. HENDERSONII Jepson & Hoover. C. hendersonii Piper; J. C. Nelson, Torreya 20:44 (1920). 

 Allocarya hendersonii A. Nelson, Erythea 7:69 (1899), type loc. Potlatch River, Ida., Henderson. 

 C. grisea Greene, Pitt. 5 :53 (1902), type loc. Shasta Co., Baker 4- Nutting. 



7. C. barbigera Greene. Stem freely branched from base, % to V/2 feet high; 

 herbage hispid and hirsute; leaves oblong-linear to linear, 1/2 to II/2 inches long; 

 spikes mostly rather dense, solitary or paniculate, becoming elongated (1 to 5 inches 

 long), the flowers sometimes (at length) remote and less secund ; calyx-lobes linear- 

 attenuate, spreading at apex, densely armed (especially below) with long spread- 

 ing bristles and also bearing on lower part a conspicuous white tuft of long- villous 

 hairs; calyx in fruit 3 to 5 lines long; corolla 1/2 to 1 line broad; nutlets 4, 3 or 2, 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, 1 line long, grayish-brown, mostly low-rounded dorsally, 

 mostly convexly 2-planed ventrally, densely muriculate-tuberculate, the ventral 

 groove forked at base. 



Sandy soil of washes, canon bottoms and mesas, 500 to 4000 (or 7400) feet : Inyo 

 Co. ; eastern Mohave Desert ; Colorado Desert. South into Lower California, east 

 to Arizona and Utah. Mar.-Apr. 



Note on type locality. — "Santa Barbara Co.," as the locality first cited by Asa Gray (Syn. 

 Fl. 2:194) in the original description of this species, appears to be erroneous. There are no sta- 

 tions known to us in Santa Barbara County. There are, moreover, no specimens of this species in 

 the Gray Herbarium from Santa Barbara County. The specimen on which the original citation 

 rested (doubtless Breii'er ; cf. Bot. Cal. 2:469) is probably now referred elsewhere. In any event 

 this matter is now resolved, since I. M. Johnston (Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:66) has selected "Utah, 

 Parry 171," as the type. 



