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record: Big Prospector Mdw.. White Mts., J. Grinnell in 1917 (det. B. F. Hoover, in 1938); 

 Conway grade, n. of Mono Lake, Hoover 5431; Hot Creek, below Fales Hot Sprs., Hoover 5446. 

 Eefs. — Cryptantha watsonii Greene, Pitt. 1:120 (1887). Krynitskia watsonii Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 20:271 (1885), type loc. Wasatch Mts., Utah, Watson. 



34. C. nemaclada Greene. Stem slender, erect, simple or branching from the 

 base, 6 to 14 inches high; herbage strigose and thinly spreading-bristly ; leaves 

 loosely hispid, the blades linear, i/o to IVi inches long; spikes geminate or ternate, 

 subfiliform, at length elongated and loose, i/2 to 3 inches long; calyx-lobes linear- 

 attenuate, the lower half densely spreading-bristly, the upper part densely clothed 

 with short equal bristles bent slightly below the horizontal or markedly deflexed ; 

 corolla % to 1 line broad ; nutlets 1 to 4, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-attenuate, whit- 

 ish, smooth and polished, rounded dorsally, the angles rounded, the ventral face 

 convexly 2-planed, the groove closed ; pericarp thin, fragile. 



Barren clay banks or shaly outcrops in the hills and valleys, 75 to 3000 feet : 

 Coast Ranges "from Colusa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co., mostly in the inner range 

 and sometimes in the bordering valleys; Tehaeliapi Mts. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges from Colusa Co. (and its bordering Sacramento plain) to Napa 

 Co.: Colusa jet., T. Brattdcgce; Sand Creek, w. Colusa Co. foothills. Hoover 3217: Monticello (w. 

 of), Napa Co., If. S. Balcer. South Coast Ranges: Puerto CaiJon, w. Stanislaus Co., Hoover 3362; 

 North Fork Lewis Creek, se. Monterey Co., Jepson 2695 ; Diablo Range, sw. Fresno Co., Jepson 

 15,395; Paso Robles, K. Brandegcc. Tehachapi Mts.: Keene sta., E. Brartdegee. 



Refs. — Cryptantha xemaclada Greene, Pitt. 1:118 (1887), type loc. "Colusa Co.," Curran, 

 most probably near the old-time Mountain House (present day Venado), on the 1884 route of 

 the collector. 



35. C. affinis Greene. Stem slender, erect, branching, 3 to 20 inches high; 

 herbage ascending- or spreading-hispid; leaf -blades oblong to oblaneeolate, V2 to 

 1% inches long, those of the main stem often opposite ; spikes solitary or geminate 

 or ternate, soon very loose, 1 to 5 inches long, leafy at base; calyx-lobes linear, 

 1 to 1^2 lilies long, not elongating in fruit, ascending-hirsute and also spreading- 

 bristlj'; corolla minute (i/i line broad); nutlets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate or short-rostellate, smooth, low-rounded on the back, attached only 

 up to the middle of the gynobase, the lateral angles rounded, the ventral groove 

 strongly excentric and closed ; basal areola or fork none. 



Hillslopes, 3000 to 8000 feet : Cuyamaca and San Bernardino mountains; North 

 Coast Eanges from Lake Co. to western Siskiyou Co. ; Sierra Nevada from Tulare 

 Co. to eastern Siskiyou Co. Ea.st to Wyoming, north to Wa.shington. June-July. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: Cuyamaca Mts., T. Brandegee ; San Bernardino Mts., Hall. North Coast 

 Ranges: Cobb Mt., sw. Lake Co., C. F. Lumrriis; Mt. Sanhedrin, nw. Lake Co., Heller 5882 ; McKay 

 Camp, South Fork Mt., e. Humboldt Co., Traey 8941 ; Grouse Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 13,041 ; 

 Ruth. Mad River Valley, Trinity Co., Tracy 8797; Corral Prairie, Trinity Summit, Tracy 10,398; 

 Shasta Sprs.. Heller 7962. Sierra Nevada: Giant Forest, Tulare Co., K. Brandegee : Huntington 

 Lake, A. L. Grant 1154; Arnold Mdw., Madera Co., A. L. Grant 1347: Yosemite, Jepson 4277; 

 Strawberry sta., Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6500; San Antonio Creek, near Dorrington, Calaveras Co., 

 Jepson 10,114; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 21,135; Prattville, Plumas Co., T. Brandegee; 

 Chico Mdws., Butte Co., Heller 11,489; Bartle, se. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 20,097. East side Sierra 

 Nevada: Mammoth, Mono Co., K. Brandegee; Webber Lake (ne. of), Sierra Co., S. B. Doten. 



Uefs.— Cryptantha affinis Greene, Pitt. 1:119 (1887); Jepson, Man. 850 (1925). Ery- 

 nitzMa affinis Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:270 (1885), type loe. "eastern side of the Sierra Nevada" 

 (the phrase first mentioned in the indication of range), with which must be associated the specific 

 locality "Donner Lake, Torrey." C. geminata Greene, I.e. type loc. Truckee, Curran. 



36. C. glomeriflora Greene. Stem diffusely branching from base or simple 

 and erect, 1 to 5 inches high ; herbage ascending-hirsute or the leaves ascending- 

 bristly; leaf-blades linear-oblong, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long; flowers 2, 3 or 4 in very small 

 glomerules (extremely reduced spikes 1 to l^/o lines long), at the ends of the 

 branches, and also in glomerules (or sometimes solitary) in the axils of the leaves, 

 even the lowest; calyx-lobes linear, lo to % line long, densely strigose and also 

 spreading-bristly, the bristles often as long; corolla very minute (Vg line broad) ; 

 nutlet solitary, smooth and sliining, ovate, shortlj' attenuate or rostellate, the ven- 

 tral groove slightly off center, open only at base. 



