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densely tufted with soft hairs (the hairs ascending and subequal) or the tufts often 

 early deciduous; corolla ^4 line broad ; nutlet solitary or usually so, ovate-attenuate, 

 smooth, bro^vn, rounded dorsally, a little rounded or eonvexly 2-planed ventrally, 

 the angles sharply defined and subacute, the groove closed. 



Gravelly washes, sandy flats in caiion-bottoms, and coastal mesas, 100 to 3500 

 feet : Inyo Co. ; eastern ilohave Desert ; western Colorado Desert; San Diego coast; 

 Santa Barbara Isls. ]Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Inyo Co.; Inyo, T. Brandegee; Furnace Creek, Funeral Mts., Parish. Eastern Mohave 

 Desert: Needles (11 mi. w.), Mum Sr Marwood 3611. Western Colorado Desert: Painted Canon, 

 Mecca Hills, Jcpson 11,635; Coaehella (wash e.), ScheUenger 25s; Bailey Well, w. Imperial Co., 

 Jepson 17,093; Valleeito, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 8503; Split Mt. (near"Fish Mt. ). Parisft 1922. 

 Santa Barbara Isls.: Santa Barbara Isl., TrasTc; Santa Catalina Isl., T. Brandegee : San Nicolas 

 Isl., Tragic 56; San Clemente Isl., Murbarger 186. San Diego coast: Pt. Loma, Orcutt. 



Var. pilosa Jtn. Calyx densely tufted with soft ascending hairs, the tips of the lobes with 

 a few divergent long bristles. — Inyo Co. ; eastern Mohave Desert ; Colorado Desert. East to 

 Nevada and Arizona, south to Lower California. It is often associated -with the species but has 

 a markedly distinctive appearance. The ventral face of the nutlets is sometimes flattish and the 

 lateral angles sometimes obtuse. 



Locs. — Inyo Co. ; Hole-in-the-Eock Spr., Daylight Pass, Grapevine Mts., Jepson 19,808 : Argus 

 Range (n. end ) , J epson 19,553. Mohave Desert: Needles, iemnion ; Amboy Crater, Jfpxo7! 20,304; 

 Kane Spr., Ord Mt., Hall <Jr- Chandler 6807 ; Calico, Parish 9798. Colorado Desert: Painted Canon, 

 Mecca Hills, Jepson 11,635a; Coaehella (wash e.), ScheUenger 25t; Signal Mt., T. Brandegee. 



Refs.— Cryptantha maritima Greene, Pitt. 1:117 (1887) ; M. & J., Bull. Torr. Club 49:38 

 (1922). Krynitzkia nuirilima Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:204 (1885), type loe. Guadalupe Isl., 

 L. Cal., Palmer, Greene. K. ramosissima Greene, I.e. 1:203 (Aug., 1885) ; not Gray (Jan., 1885). 

 C. ramosissima Greene, Pitt. 1:116 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 847 (1925). Var. pilosa Jtn., Univ. 

 Cal. Publ. Bot. 7:445 (1922), type loc. Los Angeles Bay, L. Cal., Palmer 551. 



31. C. mohavensis Greene. Stem branching low, forming a bushy plant 4 to 

 13 inches high ; herbage spreading-hispid; leaf -blades linear, 1/4 to l^/o inches long ; 

 spikes 1/4 to IY2 inches long, borne in terminal glomerules or in terminal loose clus- 

 ters; calyx-lobes linear, ascending-hirsute and sparingly spreading-bristly ; corolla 

 11/2 to 21/4 lines broad; nutlets 4, ovate-acute, truncate at base, smooth, polished, 

 flatti.sh or subfiattish dorsally, somewhat flattish on the ventral side or eonvexly 

 2-planed, the lateral angles obtuse. 



Sandy flats, 2000 to 6000 feet ; mesa borders of the Tehachapi Mts. or in then- 

 lower eaiions; southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare and Inyo Cos. East to Nevada. 



May. 



Locs.— Tehachapi Mts.: betw. Mohave sta. (Mohave Desert) and Cameron sta. (lower Te- 

 hachapi Pass), K. Brandegee ; Bena sta. (near Caliente), Heller 7642. Inyo Co.; Grays, South 

 Fork Oak Creek, S. TV. Au.^tin 629 ; Andrews Camp, Bishop Creek, K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Cryptaxtha mohavensis Greene, Pitt. 1 :120 (1887). Krynitzkia mohavensis Greene, 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. 1:207 (1885), type loe. "Mohave Desert," Curran (that is, region of Mohave sta., 

 most probably in the lower Tehachapi Pass). C. fallax Greene, Pitt. 5:54 (1902), type loc. Te- 

 hachapi, Greene. C. incana Greene, Lflts. 1:79 (1904), type loc. Nine-Mile Creek, Tulare Co., 

 Culbertson 4537 (seems to belong here. — B. F. Hoover). C. torreyana var. incana Jepson, Man. 

 850 (1925). 



32. C. torreyana Greene. Stem erect, usually stout, branched from the middle 

 or the base, 7 to 21 inches high; herbage spreading rough-hispid ; leaf -blades linear, 

 lyo to 21/4 inches long ; spikes in Is, 2s or 3s, 14 to 1 inch long and dense, or some- 

 times elongated and loose (2 to 3 inches long) ; calyx-lobes narrowlj- linear, 

 spreading-bristly and ascending-hirsute; corolla minute (14 to i/o line broad); 

 fruiting calyx much exceeding fruit, 2 to 4 lines long, a little constricted at summit 

 of nutlets, the tips of the lobes spreading ; nutlets 4, ovate, acute, smooth, a little 

 flattish on back, eonvexly 2-planed ventrally, the lateral angles obtuse, the groove 

 and its short basal fork closed. 



Grassy open or half-shady or brushy hillslopes, 1500 to 6600 (7300) feet : North 

 Coast Ranges from Sonoma Co. to western Siskiyou Co.; west slope Sierra Nevada 

 from Kern Co. to eastern Siskiyou Co. ; east side Sierra Nevada from Mono Co. to 

 Modoc Co. East to Utah and "Wyoming, north to British Columbia. May-June. 



