404 FERRIS: TAXONOMY AND 
3. ADENOSTEGIA CAPITATA (Nutt.) Greene 
Cordylanthus capitatus Nutt.; Bentham in De Candolle, Prodr. 
10: 597: 1846; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 382; Wats. Bot. 
King’s Exped. 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 580; Gray, Syn. 
FI.:2*: 304; 
Adenostegia capitata Greene, Pittonia 2: 180. 1891; Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. 2: 457; Howell, Fl. N. W. Am. 537; Piper, Contr. 
U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 518; Rydberg, Bull. Torrey Club go: 
484. 1913. 
Adenostegia ciliosa Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 34: 35. 1907. 
Cordylanthus bicolor A. Nels. Bot. Gaz. 54: 416. 1912. 
Paniculately branching annual, 4-6 dm. high, short-pilose 
throughout with glandular hairs: leaves many, 2-5 cm. long, 
linear or three-parted; heads two- to five-flowered; flowers spread- 
ing, giving an open appearance to the head; floral bracts 8-10 
mm. long, three-parted, the divisions linear-lanceolate, spreading, 
the middle division twice as long as the lateral divisions; calyx- 
leaves purplish, the upper 8-9 mm. long, thin, two-nerved, two- 
toothed, the teeth 2-3 mm. long, the lower 10-13 mm. long, 
five-nerved, broad at the apex and curved outward; corolla 10-12 
mm. long, covered with reflexed hairs, the tube longer than the 
throat, purple, tipped with yellow; stamens two, the anthers one- 
celled with vestiges of a second cell, the filaments nearly glabrous, 
with a U-shaped curve near the anther; capsule 5-6 mm. long, 
slender, pointed; seeds few, reticulate. [PLATE 10, FIG. 3.] 
Co-types of Cordylanthus bicolor examined by the author are 
not distinct from A. capitata. Specimens of A. ciliosa have not 
been examined, but Rydberg (Bull. Torrey Club 40: 484. 1913) 
states that his species is identical with Nelson’s. 
TYPE LocaLity: “In Nova California (Nuttall!).” 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountain ranges of Washington and Idaho to 
Lassen County, California; Arid Transition Zone. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED:—WASHINGTON: Yakima Region, 1882, 
Brandegee; Falcon Valley, Suksdorf 201. Ipano: Redfish Lake, 
Evermann 408; Blaine County, Nelson & MacBride 1239; Pine- 
hurst, Boise County, Macbride 1671. OrEGon: Powder River, 
Cusick 1784; same locality, Piper 2482; Hepburn Ridge, Wal- 
lowa County, Sheldon 8643; same locality, Howell. CatirorNIA: 
hills near Lassen Creek, Mrs. Austin 146. NeEvapa: .Coleman 
Valley, Coville & Leiberg 95; Clover Mountains, Watson 816; 
Gold Creek, Elko County, Kennedy 4282. 
