422 FERRIS: TAXONOMY AND 
Divaricately and sometimes corymbosely branching annual, 
2-4 dm. high, more or less canescent throughout with spreading, 
villous hairs; leaves 10-20 mm. long, lanceolate, prominently 
one-nerved, rarely three-nerved; spike erect, 2-4 cm. long; floral 
bracts 20-25 mm. long, more canescent than the leaves, lanceolate, 
often purplish at the tip; calyx-leaf 1-3 mm. shorter than the 
bract, two- or three-toothed at apex, the teeth erect or spreading 
with age; corolla tube equaling or slightly shorter than the throat; 
stamens four, the upper pair with second cell imperfect or absent, 
the filaments with scattered hairs, pectage | glabrous; capsule 
rounded; seeds reticulate. [PLATE 10, FIG. 
Examination of a fragment and a Sis cask of the type of 
Cordylanthus Parryi shows that this is an immature specimen 
of A. canescens. 
TYPE LocaLity: ‘Near Carson City, Nevada, Dr. C. L. 
Anderson.”’ 
DISTRIBUTION: Saline lakes and springs in the Great Basin 
from eastern California and Oregon to Utah. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED:—OREGON: Goose Lake Valley, Lake- 
view, Cusick 2767; Denio, August, 1901, Griffiths & Morris. 
CaLirornia: Lake Lessons, Modoc County, Mrs. Manning 
328; Honey Lake Valley, Lassen County, Davy 3390; Alkaline 
Meadows, San Bernardino County, 1888, Parish. NEVADA: 
Steamboat Springs, Heller 10367; same locality, Kennedy 1488, 
1499; Eagle Valley, Baker 1265; Black Rock Desert, Griffiths & 
Hunter 535; Glendale, Kennedy 1953; near Carson City, Anderson 
201. Utan: Smelter Beach, Tooele County, 1891, Smith; Gar- 
field Beach, Salt Lake, Rydberg 6897; Salt Lake City, Jones 1403; 
Ogden Hot Springs, August 16, 1893, Ries. 
Explanation of plates 10-12 
E 10 
1. Adenostegia laxiflora (Gray) Greene; ras from specimen from Beaver Creek, 
Arizona, X 4. 
2. spares Pringlet (Gray) Greene; bract from specimen from near Bartlett 
Springs, California, « 2 
3. a anak wipltdie (Nutt.) Greene; bract from specimen from Gold Creek, 
Elko County, Nevada, x 114. 
4. mae Mass (Gray) Greene; — from topotyp i _ x1%.- 
Pe i 
(Gray) G co-type speci fi + Lake 
Tahoe, Neva 14. 
6. Adenostegi viscida Howell; bract from specimen from Siskiyou Mountains, 
Oregon, X 
