360 BOBAGINACEAE 



Beds of former vernal pools or in hog-wallows, alkaline playas or depressions of 

 the plains or vallej' flats, 10 to 7600 feet : Coast Range valleys from San Benito Co. 

 to Napa Co.; lower San Joaquin Valley; Sacramento Valley. North to Oregon. 

 Mar.-May. 



Tax. note. — Aside from the features of the nutlets and aside from size of corolla, Allocarya 

 stipitata and A. califomiea may be differentiated by certain characters of the flowers. The 

 corolla-throat in A. stipitata is open with only little evidence of processes or crests; the calyx- 

 lobes are rather narrow, the corolla-tube visible between them. In Allocarya calif ornica, the tube 

 is closed by processes and there is no obvious throat; the calyx-lobes are somewhat longer than in 

 A. stipitata and tend to conceal the corolla-tube. 



The ventral keel of the nutlet in A. stipitata is at base abruptly bent downward (at a right 

 angle) to the basal scar. Dorsally the nutlet is transversely and rather openly rugulose with 

 tubercles or papillae in the intervals, the lower part frequently not tuberculate but often smooth. 



Regarding an exact locality for the type of Allocarya stipitata, C. V. Piper says (Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:94) : "Three specimens are marked 'type' in the herbarium of the University 

 of California, according to Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, as follows: Vallejo, Greene, Apr. 20, 1874; 

 Antioch, Mrs. [K.'\ Brandegee, April, 1883 [at that time the name of the collector was Mrs. M. K. 

 Curran] ; Elmira, Greene, May 3, 1886." This statement needs qualification. The notationB on the 

 specimens referred to actually read "part of type material" and are in the handwriting of K. 

 Brandegee (Mrs. T. S. Brandegee), not in the hand of E. L. Greene. A specimen collected at 

 Elmira, Apr. 1883, by M. K. Curran is also indicated as "part of type material" by K. Brandegee. 

 The label of the Vallejo specimen was, however, written by Greene and the determination is in his 

 hand, but none of his early specimens bear a contemporary notation, "type." Since the Vallejo 

 specimen is the earliest and was collected and named by Greene, Vallejo is here taken as the type 

 locality. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Hollister, S. Brown; Livermore, Hoover 1732; Monroe School, near 

 Forestville, Sonoma Co., M. S. Baker 2053x ; Napa jet., Sonne. Lower San Joaquin Valley : Gray- 

 sou, Stanislaus Co., Hoover 240 ; Stockton ( 7 mi. e. ) , Hoover 1924. Sacramento Valley : Vacaville, 

 Jepson 6792; College City, Colusa Co., Alice King; Willows, Glenn Co., Jepson 21,182; Tuba 

 City, Jepson 21,180. 



Var. micrantha Mcbr. Corolla % to 1% lines broad. — South Coast Ranges toward the in- 

 terior from San Luis Obispo Co. to Santa Clara Co. ; Great Valley from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. ; 

 Sierra Nevada (west slope) from Tulare Co. to Calaveras Co.; transmontane Cal., scattered 

 stations from San Diego Co. to Nevada Co. The var. micrantha is not infrequently found asso- 

 ciated with the species and yet maintaining in any one colony a size difference in corolla. Corolla 

 size, therefore, in this instance, has a definite significance. 



Locs. — South Coast Ranges: Cholame Valley, se. San Luis Obispo Co., Jepson 12,032; Ma- 

 drone, Santa Clara Valley, Jepson 21,177. San Joaquin Valley: Goshen, Tulare Co., S. Brown; 

 Friant, Fresno Co., Jepson 12,902 ; Calif a, Madera Co., Jepson 15,162 ; Simmons Creek, 6 mi. sw. 

 of Eugene, n. Stanislaus Co., Jepson 18,037; Byron, e. Contra Costa Co., Greene; Stockton, H. P. 

 Fitch. Sacramento Valley: Vacaville, Jepson 21,185; WolfskiU sta., nw. Solano Co., Jepson 

 10,405; Plumtree sta., se. Yolo Co., Jepson 19,928; Rio Linda, n. Sacramento Co., Jepson 16,574; 

 Honcut, w. Butte Co., S. Broivn; Anderson, Shasta Co., Alice King. Sierra Nevada, w. slope: 

 Giant Forest, Tulare Co., K. Brandegee; Tosemite, Hall 8875; Salt Springs Valley, Calaveras Co., 

 Tracy 5664. Transmontane Cal.: Campo, se. San Diego Co., Parish 10,814; Andrews Camp, w. 

 Inyo Co., K. Brandegee ; Boca, e. Nevada Co., K. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Allocaeya stipitata Greene, Pitt. 1:19 (1887), based on spms. from "central part 

 of Cal." (leetolocus, Vallejo), Greene; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 443 (1901), ed. 2, 345 (1911), 

 Man. 852 (1925). Lappula stipitata Druee, Rep. Bot. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 5:38 (1918). Plagio- 

 bothrys stipitatus Jtn., Contrib. Gray Herb. 68:77 (1923). Var. micrantha Mcbr., Contrib. 

 Gray Herb. 65:43 (1922); Jepson, Man. 852 (1925). A. stipitata subsp. micrantha Piper, 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22 :94 (1920), typo loc. Stockton, Greene. P. stipitatus var. micranthus 

 Jtn., Contrib. Am. Arb. 3:45 (1932). 



6. A. glabra Mcbr. Stems few or several from the base, erect, mostly simple 

 and flowering from below the middle, 5 to 12 inches high ; herbage subglabrous or 

 thinly puberulent or setulose ; leaf -blades linear, 1 to 2^2 inches long; spikes rather 

 dense, 2 to 7 inches long, the flowers strictly unilateral in 2 rather marked rows, the 

 rachis fistulous-enlarged ; calyx cleft about Vo (sometimes %) into lanceolate or 

 spatulate lobes, the sinus next the axis much deeper than the others; caljrx-tnbe 

 with 5 strong callous-thickened ridges which disappear upward at the middle of the 

 lobes; corolla I/2 line broad ; nutlets ovate, contracted to an acuminate or beak-like 

 apex ; dorsal side of nutlets flattish, slightly or obscurely fine-tuberculate and rugu- 

 lose, keeled towards apex, the ventral side convexly 2-planed and earinately ridged. 



