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terey Co., Heller 6698 ; Pt. Sur, Monterey coast, K. Brandegee. Coastal S. Cal. : San Marcos Pass, 

 Santa Ynez Mts., Jepson 20,280; Santa Cruz Isl., Margaret Stason; Santa Catalina Isl., T. Bran- 

 degee; La Jolla, Clements 109 ; Pt. Loma, San Diego, I. Brandegee 1622. 



Eefs.— Crtptantha micromeres Greene, Pitt. 1:113 (1887) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 445 

 (1901), ed. 2, 347 (1911), Man. 848 (1925). Eritrichiiim micromeres Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 19:90 (1883), type loc. Santa Cruz, Jones. Erynitzkia micromeres Gray, I.e. 20:274 (1885). 



12. C. crinita Greene. Stem rather strictly branched from near base, 7 to 12 

 inches high; herbage hirsute, the bases of tlie hairs on the leaves pustulate-discoid; 

 leaf -blades linear, i/o to 1 inch long ; spikes borne on very slender peduncles, very 

 dense and densely woolly, the calyx-lobes so shaggy-hirsute as almost to conceal 

 the individual flowers ; flowers spreading, borne on pedicels % to 1 line long ; calj-x- 

 segments linear, obtuse, in fruit 2V2 to 3 lines long; corolla 11/2 to 2 lines broad; 

 nutlet 1, broadly ovate, rostrate, IVo lines long, the low rounded back with a few 

 scattered tubercles on a microscopically papillate-tessellate ground. 



Gravelly creek bottoms, 450 to 550 feet : head of the Sacramento Valley in Shasta 

 Co. Apr.-May. 



Geog. note. — A remarkable species, both in aspect and technical character, Cryptantha crinita 

 is a narrow endemic of the small stream beds of the Stillwater and Millville plains of Shasta Co., 

 inhabiting an area perhaps not exceeding five by ten miles as at present known. Three stations 

 are here cited: Stillwater Creek at Leighton, M. S. Baker; Salmon Creek bridge, 5 mi. e. of Red- 

 ding, Hoover 2280 ; Cow Creek. 



Refs. — Crtptantha crinita Greene, Erythea 3:66 (1895), type loc. Cow Creek, Shasta Co., 

 M. S. Baker; Jepson, Man. 849 (1925). 



13. C. decipiens Hel. Stems several from the base, erect or ascending, slender, 

 4 to 12 inches higli ; herbage strigose or ascending-hispid ; leaf-blades linear, ^/^ to 

 1 inch long; spikes ternate, very slender, slightly flesuous, in fruit somewhat loose 

 or the calyces at least discrete; calyx-lobes linear-filiform, ascending-hirsute and 

 hispidulose, the 3 outer armed on lower part with a dense tuft of deflexed or hori- 

 zontally spreading bristles, the 2 inner densely hirsute at base with erect hairs; 

 corolla minute (1^4 line broad) ; fruiting calyx 2 lines long, the tips of the lobes 

 spreading; nutlet 1, ovate and rostellate, or lanceolate and attenuate, papillate- 

 dotted, or finely tuberculate and short-rugulose, the lateral angles obtuse, some- 

 times acutish. 



Desert flats, sandy mesas and arid valleys, 500 to 4500 feet : southern Sierra 

 Nevada in Kern Co.; Inyo Co.; Mohave and Colorado deserts. East to Nevada and 

 Arizona. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Kern Co.: Kernville, T. Brandegee. Inyo Co.: Johnson Caiion, Panamint Range, 

 Jepson 19,667. Mohave Desert: Hole-in-the Wall, Providence Mts.. Jepson 18,320a; Willow 

 Sprs. (cove below). Old Dad Mts., Jepson 20,394; Paradise Mts. (4V2 mi. ne.), Jepson 20,336. 

 Colorado Desert: Whitewater River, Jones: Andreas Caiion, San Jacinto Mts., Peirson 2368a; 

 Palm Canon of San Tsidro, Jepson 8807; Blair Valley, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 8687; Coyote 

 Wells (e.). Imperial Co., Jepson 11,758. 



Var. corollata Jtn. Stems generally taller (6 to 18 inches high) ; herbage spreading-bristly ; 

 corolla 1 to 2 lines broad. — South Coast Ranges, towards the interior from Contra Costa Co. to 

 Fresno Co. (peak e. of Tassajara Creek, near Mt. Diablo, Hoover 3347; Puerto Canon, w. Stanis- 

 laus Co., Hoover 3364; San Miguelito Rancho, .Jolon, Monterey Co., Jepson 1649; Alcalde, sw. 

 Fresno Co., T. Brandegee) ; s. Sierra Nevada in Tulare Co. (North Fork Kaweah River, K. Bran- 

 deaee) ; Tehachapi Mts. (Ft. Teiou, — Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:61), and south to Santa Barbara 

 Co'. (Roble Caiion, San Rafael Mts., Hall) and Ventura Co. (Ojai Valley). 



Refs. — Crtptantha decipiens Hel., Muhl. 8 :48 (1912). Krynitzkia decipiens Jones, Contrib 

 W. Bot. 13:6 (1910), type loc. Yucca, Ariz., Jones. Var. corollata Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 

 74:61 (1925), type loc. Ojai Valley, Ventura Co., Huhiy 21. C. corollata Jtn., Journ. Am. Arb. 

 18:24 (1937). 



14. C. utahensis Greene. Stem branched from base, the branches erect or with 

 decumbent base, 6 to 19 inches high; herbage ascending-hispid; leaf -blades linear, 

 14 to 214 inches long; spikes very short and dense (14 to V2 inch long), glomerate 

 in 2s and 3s or paniculate; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. 



