DISTRIBUTION OF ADENOSTEGIA 405 
4. ADENOSTEGIA PILOSA (Gray) Greene 
Cordylanthus pilosus Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 382. 1868; Wats. 
Bot. King’s Exped. 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 581; Gray, Syn. 
Fl. 21: 304; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. ed. 2. 387. 
Adenostegia pilosa Greene, Pittonia 2: 180. 1891; Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. 2: 456; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 416. 
Stout, paniculately branching annual, 6-12 dm. high; stems 
somewhat reddish, glandular with rather short, pilose hairs; leaves 
10-20 mm. long, truncate and often callous-emarginate at apex; 
flowers scattered along the branches; floral bracts linear, 15-25 
long, cinereous-pilose, the callous tip dilated, sometimes 
three-notched, three-nerved; upper calyx-leaf 20-22 mm. long, 
shallowly bidentate, three-nerved, pubescence sparse, the lower 
calyx-leaf 19-21 mm. long, broadly lanceolate, with pubescence 
as on the bracts; corolla 15-18 mm. long, the tube shorter than 
the throat, greenish white with reddish-purple markings at base 
of throat and on lower lip; stamens four, perfect, the filaments 
villous; capsule not sharply pointed; seeds few, slightly reticu- 
late. [PLATE 10, FIG. 4.] 
Type LocaLity: ‘‘Dry soil near San Jose.”’ 
DistRIBUTION: Interior valleys and foothills of California, 
from Trinity and Mendocino Counties southward to Santa Clara 
County; Upper Sonoran Zone. The specimens from the higher 
elevations in Lake and Mendocino Counties are less pilose but do 
not differ structurally from the typical form. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED:—CALIFORNIA: Biréka = Red: Bluff 
Road, Trinity County, Abrams 6158; between Harris and Alder 
Point, Trinity County, Abrams 5964; near summit of Mt.Sanhedrin, 
Lake County, Heller 5997; Cobb Mountain, Lake County, August 
13, 1910, Katharine Brandegee, near Bartlett Springs, Lake County, 
August, 1911, A. Stinchfield; Princeton, Colusa County, October, 
1905, Chandler; St. Helena Sanitarium, Napa County, Abrams 
5752; foothills, Yolo County, Stinchfield 345; Petrified Forest, 
Sonoma County, Bioletti & Michener 1731a; Weldon Cajon, Vaca 
Mountains, Salona County, September 13, 1891, Jepson; near San 
Jose, Santa Clara County, Brewer; foothills west of Los Gatos, 
Santa Clara County, Heller 7532; same locality, Eastwood; Palo 
Alto, Baker 1714; Stevens Creek Road, Santa Clara County, 
Stinchfield 247; near Stanford University, Stinchfield 255; Ray- 
mond Ranch, Santa Cruz Mountains, August 14, 1911, Blasdale; 
