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Collected on the crest of a rocky outlying spur of the Turtle 
Mts. southwest of Needles, M & H 3509. It was also found rather 
commonly on rocky places in the Providence Mountains, which 
constitute the type locality. The Parish brothers long ago col- 
lected it in the mountains near Camp Cady. The Turtle Mountain 
station was at only about 1,200 feet altitude; plants were beginning 
to flower there on the first of April. In the Providence Moun- 
tains the species was observed from the base to near the crest, 
from 3,000 to 7,000 feet altitude, where only a few plants were in 
bud in the last week in May. Field observation would indicate 
that the species is restricted to rocky places, paying little attention 
to the lines between the Sonoran Zones. 
CRYPTANTHA MARITIMA Greene 
Krynitzskia ramosissima Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 203. Au 1885. 
Not Krynitzkia ramosissima Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 277. 
Ja 1885. 
Krynitzkia maritima Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 204. Au 1885. 
Cryptantha maritima Greene, Pittonia 1: 116. 1887. 
Attention should be called to the fact that the plants currently 
going under the name of C. ramosissima Greene should properly 
be designated as C. maritima. As Coville indicated twenty-nine 
years ago (Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 165. 1893) K. ramosissima is 
an untenable name for the plant in question, Gray having originally 
proposed it as a substitute, on the grounds of applicability, for 
the specific name racemosa. Gray clearly indicated that Eri- 
trichium racemosa Wats. and K. ramosissima Gray were synony- 
mous, but Greene took the latter name and gave it a wholly new 
connotation, making it cover certain misdetermined specimens 
cited by Gray under the name K. ramosissima. K. ramosissima 
Greene is a redefinition of K. ramosissima Gray, and as this latter - 
unquestionably a synonym of C. racemosa, the former, technically 
having the same type as the latter, since it is merely a redefinition 
of it, cannot be considered more than an improper interpretation 
of K. ramosissima Gray. Neither the American nor the Vienna 
Code will justify the use of K. ramosissima in the sense that it is 
currently used in today! 
C. maritima was described from Guadalupe Island specimens, 
but despite its remote insular habitat, like many other species, 
