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7789. Sierra Nevada: near Minarets, Madera Co., Cortgdon; Erskine Creek, Kern Co., Furpus 

 ."5369. Tehachapi Mts. : Tehachapi Pass, K. Brandegce. Mono Co.: Watterson Mdw., Eenner 5. 

 Northern Mohave Desert: Eed Eock Caiion, El Paso Mts., Allison Krames. San Gabriel Mts.: 

 betw. Pine Flats and Chilao, Peirson 2463. Santa Eosa Mts.: Vandeventer Flat, Hall 1161; 

 Coyote Canon, Hall 2849. 



Eefs. — Cryptanth.^ oxygona Greene, Pitt. 1:120 (1887). Eritrichium oxygonum Gray, 

 Proc. Am. Acad. 19:89 (1883), type loe. "hills bordering Mohave Desert," Fringle. Kryniizlcia 

 oxygona Gray, I.e. 20:277 (1885). 



24. C. gracilis Osterh. Stem branched from the base, 3 to 11 inches high, the 

 branchlets ending in bractless spikes; herbage spreading-hispid ; leaf -blades nar- 

 rowly linear, 4 to 10 lines long, sessile or subsessile, the hairs pustulate-dilated at 

 base; spikes very dense and remaining dense, short (2 to 7 lines long), borne in 

 clusters of 2 to 4 on slender or filiform peduncles; calyx 1 line long, its lobes linear- 

 filiform, black-tipped, densely tufted with erect soft hairs (especially below) and 

 furnished with 1 or 2 or several very slender long bristles set at or near the apex ; 

 corolla minute (% to % line broad), the limb very definiteh' elevated above the 

 contracted mouth of the relatively large calyx ; nutlet 1, ovate-acuminate, smooth, 

 % to 73 line long, flattish dorsally or a little curved from base to apex, the lateral 

 angles definite and sometimes a little sharp, the ventral side convexly 2-planed, the 

 nutlet thus nearly 3-sided like a buckwheat grain ; basal areola small ; style % as 

 long as nutlet. 



Desert hillslopes and flats, 3000 and 5700 feet : eastern Mohave Desert ; Inj'o 

 Co. East to Colorado. May. 



Locs. — Eastern Mohave Desert: Fountain Canon, Providence Mts., Jepson 18,192; Gilroy 

 Caiion, Providence Mts., Jepson 18,233; Barnwell, New York Mts., K. Brandegee. Inyo Co.: 

 Black Caiion, White Mts., Duran. 



Eefs.— Cryptantha gracilis Ostcrhout, Bull. Torr. Club 30:236 (1903), type loc. Glenwood 

 Sprs., Garfield Co., Colo., Oslerhout 2589. C. hillmanii Nels. & Ken., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 19:157 

 (1906), type loc. Huflfaker ranch near Eeuo, Nev., Hillman. C. gracilis var. hillmanii M. & J., 

 Bull. Torr. Club 49:39 (1922). 



25. C. microstachys Greene. Stem rigidly erect, branched from the base or 

 above, greenish or sometimes dark reddish, slender, 3 to 12 (or 18) inches high; 

 herbage spreading-hirsute throughout; leaf -blades linear or linear-lanceolate, I/2 

 to 2 inches long; spikes very slender, generally ternate, at length elongated (1 to 

 314 inches long) and flexuous or a little curved, the flowers discrete; calyx-lobes 

 linear-attenuate above the lanceolate base, finely short-hairy and bristly, the 3 outer 

 lobes densely, divergently and unequally long-bristly, usually on lower half, the 

 longer bristles often longer than the lobes; fruiting calyx ascending, % to 1 line 

 long ; corolla Vi to lYo lines broad ; nutlet 1, lanceolate or ovate-attenuate or -rostel- 

 late, smooth and polished, rounded dorsally and ventrally (that is, circular in 

 cross-section) or the ventral side slightly 2-planed, the groove mainly closed. 



Slopes and caiions in the foothills, often in open woods or in chaparral, espe- 

 cially characteristic of the Adenostoma formation, 50 to 3000 feet : inner and middle 

 Coast Ranges from Glenn Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; Sierra Nevada in Kern Co.; 

 cismontane Southern California. Apr.-June. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Alder Sprs. (9 mi. e.), Glenn Co., Heller 11,444; Epperson road stn., 

 sw. Colusa Co., K. Brandegee; Rumsey (4 mi. n.), Yolo Co., Hoover 3190; Bell Canon, Howell 

 Mt., Napa Range, Jepson 18,868; Dutton Canon, Vaca Mts., Jepson 21,124; Antioch, E. Brande- 

 gee; Oyster Ridge, Mt. Diablo, Boiverman 2183; Soqucl Canon, Santa Cruz Mts., Jepson 21,123; 

 Estrella, San Luis Obispo Co., Jared. Sierra Nevada in Kern Co.: Bald Mt., Greenhorn Mts., 

 C. N. Smith 200. Cismontane S. Cal.: North Fork Seymour Creek, Mt. Pinos, Peirson 3234; 

 Painted Cave ranch, Santa Ynez Mts.. Eastwood ; Topanga Canon, Santa Monica Mts., Barber; 

 Rubio Canon (foothills e.), San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 172; San Bernardino, Parish 3645; San 

 Jacinto River caiion, Jepson 1281 ; Campo (10 mi. w.), San Diego Co., Mum 4" Johnston 12,628. 



Eefs. — Cryptantha MirnosTACHys Greene, Pitt. 1:116 (1887). KrynitzVia microstachys 

 Greene; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:269 (1885), type loc. Fort Tejon, Kern Co., Xantns 84. 



26. C. hispidula Greene. Stem erect, slender, widely branching above the 

 base, 5 to 15 inches high; herbage spreading-hispid ; leaf-blades linear, 4 to 9 lines 



