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Montane slopes and meadows, 6000 to 10,650 feet, rare : Sierra Nevada, mostly 

 east side or high easterly meadows, from Nevada Co. to Tulare Co. ; Sweetwater 

 and White mountains, Mono Co. July. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada: Truckee, Nevada Co., Sonne; Eagle Mdw., Eagle Peak, Tuolumne 

 Co., Hoover 1350; Eock Creek Lakes basin, Inyo Co., Peirson 11,146; Volcano Creek, Tulare Co., 

 Hall 4- Babcock 5322. Mono Co.: Cottonwood Creek, 

 Sweetwater Mts., Hoover 5540; near Big Prospector 

 Mdw., White Mts., Jepson 7357. ^ ^ j^ 



Refs. — Crtptantha GLOiiERirLORA Greene, Pitt. 

 1:116 (1887), type loc. Truckee (2 mi. below), Sonne; 

 Jepson, Man. 849 (1925). 



37. C. flaccida Greene. (Fig. 417.) Stem 

 strictly and rigidly erect, with few ascending 

 branclaes at the top, % to 2 feet high ; herbage 

 strigulose ; leaf -blades linear, V2 to l^/^ inches 

 long; spikes 3 or 4 in a terminal umbellate 

 cluster or panicle, dense or soon loose and 2 to 

 4 inches long; calyx-lobes narrowly linear, 

 thickish at ba.se and closely erect above, armed 

 on lower part with a dense deflexed or spread- 

 ing tuft of long curved bristles, the upper 

 part set with short scattered curved bristles, 

 or sometimes 1 or 2 inner calyx-lobes (next to 

 the axis) destitute of long bristles, or all the 

 lobes destitute of long bristles ; fruiting calyx 

 1 to 11/2 lines long, appressed to rachis; coroUa 

 % to 1 (or 2) lines broad; nutlet 1, ovate or 

 lanceolate, rostellate-acuminate, rounded at 

 base, smooth and shining, circular in cross- 

 section or a little flatfish ventrally, the groove 

 median or sometimes escentric, closed, areo- 

 late at base, the areola small or minute, cir- 

 cular or deltoid. 



Open hillslopes, rocky ridges or valley floors, 200 to 4500 feet : throughout the 

 mountains of cismontane Cal., but rare in Southern California; absent from the 

 Great Valley floor or present only rarely on the margins near the foothills ; absent 

 from the deserts but occurring occasionally in the intramontane foothills on the 

 desert borders. North to Washington. Apr. -June. 



Locs. — S. Cal.: Cuyamaca Mts., T. Brandegee; Saugus, T. Brandegee. Coast Eanges: Bitter- 

 water Valley, e. San Luis Obispo Co., Wiggins 5814; Tulare Hill, Coyote sta., Santa Clara Valley, 

 Jepson; Livermore Valley, Jepson 21,120; Mt. Diablo, Bowerman 269; Tiburon, Marin Co., Jep- 

 son 19,945; Howell Mt., Napa Range, Jepson 2443; Pleasants Valley, nw. Solano Co., Jepson 

 21,137; Blue Lakes, Lake Co., Jepson 21,136; Mt. Sanhedrin, e. Mendocino Co., Jepson 21,119; 

 Paskenta, sw. Tehama Co., Virginia Bailey ; Look Prairie, Bull Creek, Humboldt Co., Constance 

 620; Three Porks of Mad River, Trinity Co., Tracy 10,195; Yreka, Butler 734. Great Valley 

 (margins of, near the foothills) : Edison, Kern Co., Jepson 18,144; Mudera, Buckminster ; Buckeye 

 Creek, Hershey, Yolo Co., Jepson 8957 ; Marysville Buttes, Jepson 21,136 ; Crane Creek, w. Tehama 

 Co., Jepson 21,121; Red BlufE (rubble field 3 mi. ne.), Jepson 16,361. Tehachapi Mts.: Caliente, 

 Jepson 6754; Keene, Jepson 7160. Sierra Nevada: Pine Mt., Greenhorn Mts., Kern Co., C. N. 

 Smith 212; betw. Colony Mill and Marble Fork, Tulare Co., Jepson 664; Wawona, A. L. Grant 

 1299; Yosemite, Jepson 10,468; Mormon Bar, Mariposa Co., Jepson 12,769; Chinese Camp, Tuo- 

 lumne Co., Jepson 6323; Parrotts Ferry, Stanislaus River, A. L. Grant 74a; Pine Grove, Amador 

 Co., Hansen 430; Table Mt., Butte Co., Heller 11,325; Ager, Siskiyou Co., E. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Crtptantha fij^ccida Greene, Pitt. 1:115 (1887); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 445 

 (1901), ed. 2, 347 (1911), Man. 850(1925). Myosotis flaccida Doug].; Lehm.,Pugill. 2:22 (1830), 

 type collected by Douglas, probably in e. Wash, or Ore. Eritrichium oxycaryum Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 10:58 (1874), "common in Ore. and Cal." Krynitzhia oxycarya Gray, I.e. 20:269 (1885). 

 C. flaccida var. maior Brand; Engler, Pflzr. 4"=:61 (1931), type loc. Solcdad, Monterey Co., 

 Congdon 72. C. flaccida var. minor Brand, I.e., type loc. Whitman Co., Wash., Elmer 766. 



Fig. 417. Crtptantha flaccida 

 Greene, a, habit, X % ; 6, fl., X 4 ; c, f r. 

 calyx, X 4; d, nutlet, dorsal view, X 8; 

 e, nutlet, ventral view, X 8. 



