BORAGE FAMILY 365 



Locs. — Great Valley: Anderson, Shasta Co., ace. C. V. Piper; Thornton (5 mi. nw.), Sacra- 

 mento Co., Hoover 1062 ; French Camp, San Joaquin Co., Sanford 100 ; Tracy, San Joaquin Co., 

 Greene; Los Banos (9 mi. w.), Merced Co., Hoover 1652. South Coast Ranges: Livermore, Bio- 

 letti; Coyote sta., Santa Clara Valley, Jepson 21,184; Jolon, Monterey Co., KecTc 4" Clausen 3061 ; 

 Estrclla, San Luis Obispo Co., Jared. Los Angeles Co.: Gardena and Inglewood (Contrib. Am. 

 Arb. 3:75). 



Refs. — Allocarta trachycarpa Greene, Pitt. 1:14 (1887); Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 443 

 (1901), ed. 2, 346 (1911), Man. 853 (1925). KrynitzTcia trachycarpa Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 20:266 (1885), type loc. Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., Brewer 1007, not "Sonoma Co." (cf. 

 Contrib. Am. Arb. 3:76; also Brewer Fieldbook). Plagiobothrys trachycarpus Jtn., Contrib. 

 Gray Herb. 68:78 (1923). A. interrasilis Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:108 (1920), type 

 loc. Hollister, Setchell (form with rounded ridges on nutlets). 



13. A. hispidula Greene. Stems few or several from the base, spreading or 

 ascending, 2 to 7 inches high ; herbage spreadiug-hirsutulose or strigulose ; leaf- 

 blades linear, Y2 to 1 (or 11/2) inches long; spikes bracteate or interrupted-bracteate 

 or bracteate at base only, loose, 1 to 5 inches long; corolla I/4 to I/2 line broad; 

 nutlets ovate, the dorsal side tuberculate-crowded or often irregularly rugulose 

 and more or less reticulate with the areolae finely tuberculate, the ridges or tuber- 

 cles microscopically hispidulose or short-bristly ; ventral side obliquely rugulose 

 and usually finelj^ tuberculate, keeled; scar linear; bristles barbed at tip or naked. 



Moist meadows or dry flats, 4000 to 8700 feet : San Bernardino Mts. ; Sierra 

 Nevada from Tulare Co. to Modoc Co.; high North Coast Ranges from the Yollo 

 Bolly Mts. to western Siskiyou Co. East to Nevada and Wyoming, north to 

 Washington. May-Sept. 



Tax. note. — Occasional plants of Allocarya hispidula, in which the scabrous points or short 

 bristles of the nutlets are practically absent, are sometimes found growing and intergrading with 

 the usual form of the species. The separation of such plants from Allocarya cusickii var. vallicola 

 is a difficult problem but ordinarily the definitely lateral scar of Allocarya hispidula provides a 

 reliable basis for distinction as against the obliquely basal scar of Allocarya cusickii var. valli- 

 cola. — R. F. Hoover. 



Locs. — San Bernardino Mts.: Seeleys Flat (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:99). Sierra Ne- 

 vada : Ramshaw Mdws., Kern Peak, Jepson 4964 ; Williams Mdw., South Fork Kings River, Jepson 

 762; Deadman Creek, e. Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6561; Dog Valley, e. Nevada Co., Jepson 21,163; 

 Prattville, Plumas Co., T. Brandegee; Chico Mdws., Butte Co., Heller 11,496; Butte Creek Mdws., 

 e. Tehama Co., J. Grinnell; Burney Spr., ne. Shasta Co., Peirson 10,290a; Big Bear Flat, se. of 

 Bartle, se. Siskiyou Co., Jepson 20,108 ; Willow Creek, Clear Lake, Modoc Co., J. T. Howell 12,360. 

 North Coast Ranges: South Yollo Bolly, Jepson 21,166; Corral Prairie, Trinity Summit, Tracy 

 14,226; Shackelford Canon, Siskiyou Co., Chandler 1704. 



Var. tenera (Greene) Jepson comb. n. Stems 7 to 12 inches high; spikes bracteate only at 

 base; corolla 1% to 1% lines broad; tubercles of nutlets with short bristles (not barbed or not 

 usually barbed) or merely microscopically and very thinly short-hispidulose ; scar ovate or deltoid, 

 lateral but reaching the base. — Moist meadows or stream borders, 500 to 4400 feet: middle and 

 inner North Coast Ranges from Napa Co. to western Shasta Co. ; thence east to Modoc Co. 

 May-July. 



Locs. — North Coast Ranges: Howell Mt., Napa Co., Tracy 12,453a; Oak Park Sprs., s. of 

 Middletown, Lake Co., Ferris 6694 ; Indian Valley, ne. Lake Co., Jepson 8993 ; Shasta, Shasta Co., 

 Morse. Northern Sierra Nevada: Forestdale, sw. Modoc Co., Nuttiny. 



Refs. — Allocarya hispidula Greene, Pitt. 1:17 (1887), type loc. Bear Valley, San Bernar- 

 dino Mts., Parish 1470; Jepson, Man. 853 (1925). Plagiobothrys hispidulus Jtn., Contrib. Arn. 

 Arb. 3:71 (1932). A. penicillata Greene, Pitt. 1 :18 (1887), type loc. Donner Lake, Nevada Co., 

 Greene. A. hispidvla var. penicillata Jepson, Man. 853 (1925). A. cryocarpa Piper, Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:98 (1920), type loc. Lily Lake, Eldorado Co., Eastwood. A. cervina Piper, 

 I.e. 22:100 (1920), type loc. Redding, Heller 7891. A. nigra Brand; Fcdde, Repert. Sp. Nov. 

 19:71 (1923), type loc. Truckee, Nevada Co., Heller 7055a. Var. tenera Jepson. Allocarya 

 tenera Greene, Pitt. 3:109 (1896), type loc. Adams Sprs., Lake Co., Emily Booth. Plagiohothri/s 

 tener Jtn., Contrib. Arn. Arb. 3:66 (1932). A. gracilis Piper, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:98 

 (1920), type loc. Deer Flat, Shasta Co., Ball 4" Babcock 4276. A. laxa Piper, I.e., type loc. s. side 

 of Mt. Shasta, H. E. Brown 590. A. pratensis Piper, I.e. 22:99 (1920), type loc. Bear Creek, 

 Shasta Co., Hall # Babcock 41G2. A. vallata Piper, I.e. 22:101 (1920), tj-pe loc. Goose Valley, 

 Shasta Co., Eastwood 718. A. scalptocarpa Piper, I.e. 22 :111 (1920), type loc. Burney, Shasta Co., 

 Eastwood. P. tener var. subglabcr Jtn., I.e. 3:67 (1932), type loc. Houghs Sprs. (5 mi. e.). Lake 

 Co., Heller 1349a. P. tener var. fallax Jtn., I.e., type loc. Prattville, Plumas Co., £. M. Austin. 



