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Locs. — Coast Ranges: Santa Rosa Creek canon, Sonoma Co., M. S. Bal:er 620; South Mill 

 Creek (head), se. of Ukiah, Jepson 9234; Eden Valley, se. Mendocino Co., Jepson 21,122; Long 

 Valley, cent. Mendocino Co., Tracy 5806; South Yollo Bolly, se. Trinity Co., Jepson 21,134; 

 Chamise Mt., near Shelter Cove, ne. Mendocino Co., Tracy 6320; betw. Three Creeks and Willow 

 Creek, n. Humboldt Co., Tracy 5841 ; Three Forks of Mad River, Trinity Co., Tracy 10,206; Bee- 

 gum, w. Tehama Co., Jepson 16,031 ; Sisson, vr. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 21,131. Sierra Nevada: Poso 

 Creek, Greenhorn Mts., Hall # Babcock; betw. Watson Spr. and Cedar Creek, North Fork Kaweah 

 River, Jepson 598; Chowchilla School, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,802; Deadman Creek, Middle Fork 

 Stanislaus River, Jepson 6560a; near Alpine Camp, upper Truckee River, Eldorado Co., H. M. 

 Wheeler; Bear Valley, near Emigrant Gap, Jepson 21,133 ; Yuba Pass, Sierra Co., Jepson 16,855 ; 

 Rock Creek, Meadow Valley, Plumas Co., Jepson 19,337; Rich Gulch, Plumas Co., Follett 99; 

 Shasta Retreat, Siskiyou Co., Gondii. East side of Sierra Nevada: Walker River, Mono Co., Aliinz 

 7571; Dog Valley, e. Nevada Co., Jepson 21,132; North Fork Bidwell Creek, n. Warner Mts., 

 Jepson 7907. 



Var. pumila Jtn. Plants often dwarfish and 2 to 5 inches high ; fruiting calyx 1-54 lines long ; 

 nutlets smaller. — South Coast Ranges (Los Gatos, foothills w.. Heller 7458; Penitencia Creek, 

 near Mt. Hamilton foothills, Rattan; Mt. Diablo, Bower man 2245; Strawberry Caiion, Berkeley 

 Hills, Tracy 793) ; Marin Co. (Mt. Tamalpais). 



Var. scrutata Jepson nom. n. Stem erect, weak, 7 to 16 inches high, divergently few-branched, 

 the branches long, slender, flexuous; calyx 11/2 lines long, densely ascending-hispid with short 

 hairs, the midrib of the lobes with a few much reduced bristles, these bristles very slender and 

 spreading, sometimes long, sometimes very short, but rising above the appressed hairs at an 

 angle; corolla 1 to iy2 lines wide. — Chaparral slopes, open woods and rocky outcrops, 500 to 3000 

 feet: North Coast Ranges from Lake Co. to Del Norte Co. Apr.-June. 



Tax. note. — The nutlets of var. scrutata are like those of the species, Cryptantha torreyana. 

 For example, in representative collections, the nutlets of var. scrutata in a "collection from the 

 hills near the mouth of the South Fork Trinity (Tracy 10,141) are identical with the nutlets in 

 a collection of Cryptantha torreyana from Chamise Mt., near Shelter Cove, Tracy 6320 ; the nut- 

 lets of these two collections are alike in shape, in beak, in the flattened back, in the slightly raised 

 ventral side, in the groove and its fork. The two forms are alike in all other features save dif- 

 ferences in habit and save that the calyx-bristles are extremely reduced in number and in size in 

 the variety. Other stations for the variety may be cited as follows: Ruth (6 miles above). Mad 

 River Valley, Trinity Co., Tracy 4298; New River Bluffs, Trinity Co., Tracy 6388; Smith River 

 Del Norte Co., Paries 24,011 (det. R. F. Hoover). 



Var. traskae (Jtn.) Jepson comb. n. Nutlets smaller than in the species, % as long, smooth 

 but minutely tuberculate towards apex dorsally. — San Nicolas Isl.; San Clemente Isl., Muns 6674. 

 The nutlets in the type of this variety in shape, basal fork of groove and somewhat truncatish base 

 resemble closely the nutlets of the species, Cryptantha torreyana. Although the variety is, ad- 

 mittedly, widely sundered geographically from the species, it cannot well be referred to the more 

 nearly contiguous species, Cryptantha clevelandii, which differs in fundamental structure on 

 account of its narrow thickened or subteretish rostellate nutlets as opposed to the somewhat com- 

 pressed broad nutlets of var. traskae. 



Refs. — Cryptantha torreyana Greene, Pitt. 1:118 (1887); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 446 

 (1901), ed. 2, 348 (1911), Man. 850 (1925). Kryniizhia torreyana Gray, Proe. Am. Acad. 20:271 

 (1885), "nearly throughout Cal."; (lectotype, Yosemite Valley, Torrey in 1865; cf. Johnston, 

 Contrib. Gray. Herb. 74:81). K. torreyana var. calycosa Gray, I.e., type loc. Lake Co., Rattan 

 (no. 42, ace. Gray Herb.), the flowers capitate-congested at ends of branches, the calyces 3 lines 

 long. C. torreyana subvar. capitata Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4-'''-: 58 (1931), type loc. Lake Co. 

 Rattan 42. C. torreyana var. calistogae Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:80 (1925), type loc. Calis- 

 toga, Tracy 2094, a form with longer style. C. trifurca Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 32:203 (1905), 

 type loc. Klamathon, Siskiyou Co., Copeland 3550. Var. pumila Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74:8o' 

 (1925). C. pumila Hel., Muhl. 2:242 (1906), type loc. summit Mt. Tamalpais, Marin Co., Hdler 

 8403. Var. SCRUTATA Jepson. C. milobalceri Jtn., Jour. Arn. Arb. 21:63 (1940), type loc. betw. 

 Kelseyville and Lower Lake, Lake Co., M. S. Baker 7629 (typ. non vidi). Var. traskae (Jtn.) 

 Jepson. C. traskae Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 74 : 77 (1925) , type loc. San Nicolas Isl., Trask. 



33. C. watsonii Greene. Stem et-ect, branched, 4 to 10 inches high; herbage 

 hirsute; leaf-blades narrowly obloug or linear, 14 to I14 inches long; spikes 2 to 9 

 lines long; calyx-lobes lanceolate, thinly strigose and sparsely spreading-bristly; 

 corolla 1/2 to % line broad ; nutlets 4 or 3, smooth, narrow-ovate, flattish on back' 

 convexly 2-planed on the ventral side, tlie lateral angles sharply acute, the ventral 

 groove closed or nearly so, shortly forked at base. 



Desert ranges, 5000 to 10,300 feet : White Mts. East to Colorado, north to 

 Oregon and Montana. May- Aug. 



Geog. note. — Distributed vridely over the mountains of the Great Basin region, Cryptantha 

 watsonii has never hitherto been reported from California. Three collections are available for 



