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Endemism note. — Allocarya vestita, a rare endemic, is known only from Petaluma and has 

 been collected but once. It exhibits an unusually localized occurrence. 



Refs. — Allocarya vestita Greene, Erythea 3:125 (1895), type loe. Petaluma, Sonoma Co., 

 Congdon; Jepson, Man. 851 (1925). A. mollis var. vestita Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 442 (1901), 

 ed. 2, 345 (1911). Plagiohothrys mollis var. vestitus Jtn., Coutrib. Gray Herb. 68 :75 (1923). 



3. A. lithocarya Greene. Stems erect, sparingly branched, 7 to 10 inches high; 

 leaf -blades linear, % to l^/o inches long; racemes becoming loose and more or less 

 leafy-bracted, 1 to 31/2 inches long; corolla 1 line broad ; nutlets ovate, smooth and 

 whitish or vitreous-shining, lightly mottled, rounded dorsally and keeled, flattish 

 on the ventral side, the ventral keel hidden by lateral folds for nearly its entire 

 length ; scar narrowly linear, likewise hidden by the folds. 



Moist spots, 1000 to 1500 feet : valleys in Lake and Mendocino Cos. bordering or 

 near the Mayacamas Range. Apr. -May. 



Geog. note. — This species, Allocarya lithocarya, one of the rarest species of its genus in Cali- 

 fornia, has been seldom collected. A narrow endemic, mth the outstanding features of a true 

 endemic, it is known only from the original station, Lakeport (in western Lake Co.), and from 

 Potter VaUey (Nettie Purpus) in eastern Mendocino Co. 



Refs. — Allocarya lithocarya Greene, Pitt. 1:12 (1887) ; Jepson, Man. 852 (1925). Kry- 

 nitzkia lithocarya Greene; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:265 (1885), type loc. Lakeport, Lake Co., 

 Curran. Plagiohothrys lithocaryus Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 68:76 (1923). 



4. A. chorisiana Greene. Stem erect, branching, 2 to 11 (or 16) inches high, 

 at length diffuse with decumbent branches, very leafy below ; herbage subglabrous 

 or thinly setulose ; basal leaves alternate or opposite, the blades linear, 1 to 4 inches 

 long; racemes elongated, at length very loose, leafy below; fruiting pedicels 1 to 7 

 lines long, mostly longer than calyx ; calyx little accrescent, about 1 line long, the 

 lobes at length spreading; corolla 3 to 4 lines wide ; nutlets ovate, V2 I'ne long, drab 

 or brownish, keeled ventrally only, or also dorsally toward the apex, the dorsal side 

 sparingly rugulose or imperfectly rugulose-reticulate and minutely or obscurely 

 tuberculate ; ventral keel set in a groove ; scar linear. 



Grassy hillslopes, 5 to 300 feet : near the coast from San Francisco Co. to the 

 Santa Cruz Mts. Apr.-May. 



Locs. — San Francisco, Kellogg; Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo Co., C. F. Baker 429; 

 Belmont, San Mateo Co., Greene; Santa Cruz, Davy. 



Var. myrlantha (Greene) Jepson. Pedicels nearly all shorter than the calyx ; corolla 1 to 1% 

 (or 2%) lines broad; nutlets brownish, rugulose, minutely and sparingly tuberculate, keeled one- 

 third or half way down the back. — Along the coast line or near it, from the Santa Cruz Mts. (Mt. 

 Hermon, S. Brown) to the Monterey coast (Pt. Joe, E. Ferguson 302; Carmel, Newlon 115) and 

 San Luis Obispo coast (San Simeon, K. Brandegee). 



Refs. — Allocarya chorisiana Greene, Pitt. 1:13 (1887); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 442 

 (1901), ed. 2, 345 (1911), Man. 852 (1925). Myosotis chorisiana Cham., Linnaea 4:444 (1829), 

 type loc. San Francisco, Chamisso. Eritrichinm chorisianum DC, Prodr. 10:130 (1846). Krynitz- 

 kia chorisiana Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20:267 (1885). Plaoiobothrys chorisianus Jtn., Contrib. 

 Gray Herb. 68:77 (1923). Eritrichium connatifolium Kell.,"Proc. Cal. Acad. 2:163 (1863), type 

 loc. vie. San Francisco, Bloomer. A. jonesii Brand; Fedde, Eepert. Sp. Nov. 18:313 (1922), type 

 loc. Santa Cruz, Jones 2326. Var. myriantha Jepson, Man. 852 (1925). A. myrianiha Greene, 

 Erythea 3:125 (1895), type loc. Monterey, Greene. A. hickmanii Greene, Pitt. 1:13 (1887), type 

 loc. s. Monterey Co., Hickman. A. chorisiana var. hickmanii Jepson, Man. 852 (1925). Plagio- 

 hothrys chorisianus var. hickmmiii Jtn., Contrib. Arn. Arb. 3:49 (1932). 



5. A. stipitata Greene. Stems few or usually many from the base, mostly 

 simple, slender, somewhat spreading, commonly 9 to 12 inches high ; herbage 

 sparsely setulose; leaf-blades linear or linear-oblanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, at- 

 tenuate into a broad petiole-like base ; pedicels slightly turbinate-thickened beneath 

 the flower ; calyx-lobes at length brownish and often spreading, strongly accrescent, 

 becoming 3 to 4 lines long; corolla 2 to 3 lines broad, white with j-ellow eye or the 

 eye changing to white ; nutlets narrowly ovate, somewhat flattened dorsally, trans- 

 versely rugose dorsally and more or less finely tuberculate, strongly keeled ventrally 

 down to the base, the dorsal keel obsolete except above the middle ; apex of nutlets 

 somewhat laterally compressed, thus forming a beak-like summit. 



