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subequal at apex, but the large nutlet (next the axis) is inserted lower on the gynobase than the 

 other three. It is sometimes smooth dorsally on lower part and its groove is always open, not only 

 open but widely gaping, sometimes so wide as to cover almost wholly the breadth of the ventral 

 face of the nutlet. 



Loes. — Conchilla Desert: Whitewater sta., Jones. Mohave Desert: Lancaster, K. Brandegee ; 

 Kramer, Parish 9810; Eandsburg, K. Brandegee ; Barstow, K. Brandegee; Willow Spr. (cove 

 below), Old Dad Mts., Jepson 20,393; Kelso sand dunes, Jepson 20,550. 



Eefs. — Cryptantha dumetorum Greene, Pitt. 1:112 (1S87). Krynitshia dumetorum Greene; 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:272 (1885), type loc. "Tehachapi Pass," Curran, that is, according to 

 the collector, somewhere between "Tehachapi Pass" (the lower pass, in which Cameron sta. is 

 situated) and Mohave sta. C. intermedia var. dumetorum Jepson, Man. 849 (1925). 



10. C. angustifolia Greene. Stem erect or diffusely branched from or near the 

 base, 2 to 8 inches high ; herbage densely hispid with white hairs, the hairs com- 

 monly pustulate at base; leaf -blades narrowly linear, 3 to 12 lines long; flowers 

 usually densely 2-ranked, the spikes I/2 to 2 (or 3i/^) inches long, eymose-paniculate 

 at ends of branches; calyx-lobes filiform or linear, densely short- villous with spread- 

 ing hairs and with many spreading bristles, the bristles often j'ellowish and nearly 

 as long as the calyx-lobes or sometimes longer; corolla minute (% line broad) ; 

 nutlets 4, ovate to lanceolate, ly-o line long, 1 nutlet large and 3 (or 2) small or 2 

 large and 2 small, the back minutely and thickly papillate, the ventral groove (often 

 open) usually widened downward into a triangular areola at base, the lateral 

 angles rounded or sharply defined. 



Brushy flats, sandy plains, washes or playas, -10 to 3500 feet : Inyo Co.; eastern 

 Mohave Desert; Colorado Desert. East to Utah and western Texas, south to 

 Mexico. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Inyo Co.: Argus Range (n. end), Jepson 19,567; Emigrant Wash, Death Valley, 

 Jepson 19,571. Mohave Desert; betw. Inyokern and Trona, C. N. Smith 70; Searles Lake, Jepson 

 7148; Tiefort Mt., Jepson 17,262; Barstow, Jepson 5386; Yermo, Jepson 15,866; Twenty-nine 

 Palms, T. Brandegee ; Lavic, Jepson 15,468; Kelso sand dunes, Jepson 20,547; Summit road sta., 

 Marble Mts. (s. end), Jepson 18,152; Danby, Jepson 18,371; Essex, Jepson 18,156; Needles, 

 Jepson 5482. Colorado Desert: Palo Verde Valley, Sehellenger 17; Painted Caiion, Mecca Hills, 

 Jepson 11,636; County Well, Conchilla Mts., n. of Indio, Jepson 6026; betw. Indio and Fargo 

 Caiion, Clary 2067 ; Palm Sprs. of San Jacinto, Jepson 6062 ; Bailey Well, w. Imperial Co., Jepson 

 17,086; San Felipe Narrows, ne. San Diego Co., Jepson 12,540; Calexico, Davy 7955; Ft. Yuma, 

 Jepson 11,738. 



Eefs. — Cryptantha angqstifolia Greene, Pitt. 1:112 (1887); Jepson, Man. 847 (1925). 

 Eritrichium angustifolium Torr., Pae. E. Eep. 5:363 (1857), "not rare in Cal.," more specifically 

 Ft. Y'uma, Thomas (cf. Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:39). Krynitzkia angustifolia Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 20:272 (1885). 



11. C. micromeres Greene. Stem rather widely branched at or above the ba.se, 

 4 to 14 inches high, the branches very slender; herbage rough-hispid almost 

 throughout with spreading dull-colored hairs ; leaf-blades oblong to linear, 14 to 

 1 inch long; spikes geminate to quinate, terminal or subterminal, bractless, not 

 dense, 2 to 4 inches long; calyx I/2 line long, its linear or lanceolate lobes armed 

 with uncinate bristles as long as the calyx; corolla minute (V-j line broad) ; nutlets 

 4 (or 3), triangular-ovate, acute, 3 (or 2) smaller, minutely white-muriculate on 

 a light-brown ground, Vs line long, the fourth or odd nutlet dark brown and smooth 

 or mainly so, 1^4 to IV2 times larger than the small ones ; ventral groove open below 

 middle and forked at base. 



Sandy soil of hillslopes, rocky hilltops and mesas, frequent on chaparral 

 "burns," 10 to 1000 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from Amador Co. to Mariposa 

 Co.; Coast Ranges (mainly the outer ranges) from Marin Co. to Monterej- Co.; 

 coastal Southern California from Santa Barbara Co. to San Diego Co. South to 

 northern Lower California. Apr.-]\Iay. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada foothills: Drytown, Amador Co., Hansen 428; Gwin Mine, Calaveras 

 Co., Jepson 1766 ; Coulterville (5 mi. w.), Mariposa Co., Hoover 3419. Coast Ranges: Mt. Tamal- 

 pais, K. Brandegee; Berkeley Hills, Tracy 2074; Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 1901; Soquel Canon, 

 Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 21,125; Pajaro Hills, nw. Monterey Co., Chandler 439; Del Monte, Mon- 



