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miento River, Monterey County, was said to agree most closely 
with Douglas’s specimen. It is known that Douglas visited San 
Antonio Mission and collected in the Santa Lucia Mountains. 
So we may safely assume that the type locality of this species is 
in that region. 
DIsTRIBUTION: Exposed slopes in the inner Coast Ranges of 
California from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the Santa Lucia 
Mountains; Upper Sonoran Zone. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED:—CALIFORNIA: Crystal Springs, Santa 
Cruz Peninsula, 1896, Eastwood; Permanente Creek, July, 1903, 
Dudley; Castle Rock Ridge, October, 1906, Abrams; near Congress 
Springs, Stinchfield 248; near Saratoga, Pendleton 234; near 
Wrights, Dudley, 1894; California Redwood Park, Stinchfield 253; 
same locality, Abrams 6384; Glenwood Station, August, 1900, 
Davis; head of Aptos Creek, Abrams 3028; Santa Lucia Moun- 
tains, Condit 8; same locality, Vasey 483; same locality, May-— 
July, 1892, Vortriede; Jolon, July 30, Brandegee; Tassajara Hot 
Springs, July 18, 1908, Cox. 
Ila. ADENOSTEGIA RIGIDA BREVIBRACTEATA (Gray) Greene 
Cordylanthus filifolius var. brevibracteatus Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 622. 
1876; Gray, Syn. FI. 2!: 304. 
Adenostegia rigida var. brevibracteata Greene, Pittonia 2: 180. 
: 1891; Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 173. 
Habit as in typical A. rigida; bracts with distinctly calloused, 
emarginate tips, often dark colored, with prominent veins; bracts 
and calyx-leaves copiously hirsute-ciliate. [PLATE 10, FIG. 12.] 
The short bracts upon which Gray based the name are char- 
acteristic of the specimens from Fresno and Kern Counties. 
These specimens, however, have the hirsute-ciliate pubescence of 
all the Sierran forms. A form growing at Santa Barbara and near 
Visalia, Tulare County, has less conspicuously calloused bracts, 
but seems to grade into typical brevibracteata. 
I have examined the following three collections from the 
Kaweah region: meadows near Monarch Lake, Dudley 1230; 
Bearskin Meadow, King’s River region, August, 1904, Dudley; 
Grant Forest Reservation, August, 1910, Katharine Brandegee. 
These undoubtedly belong to the A. rigida group but cannot be 
