Rydberg : Rocky Mountain flora 679 





3-4 mm. long, in fruit 8-10 mm. long, white-silky with long 

 spreading hairs; corolla minute, shorter than the calyx ; hmb hardly 

 0.5 mm. wide; nutlets 3 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, long-acu- 

 minate, strongly muricate ; groove closed, 2-rorked at the base. 



The type sheet of this species was determined by Dr. Watson 

 as Eritrichitim barbigerum. It is abundantly distinct from Cryp- 

 ianthe barbigera, however, the main distinctions being the narrow 

 ^trigose leaves, the strlgose instead of hirsute or hispid stem, the 

 mhiute corollas, and the narrower and differently shaped nutlets. 



Utah: St. George, 1877, E, Palmer j 50 (type, in herb. Colum- 

 bia Univ.). 



Cryptanthe confusa sp. nov. 



Cryptanthe affinis Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. I : 330, in 

 part. 1900. ^^ 



Annual ; stem rather stout] hispid, branched ; leaves oblong or 

 oblong-oblanceolate, 2-5 cnt: long, 3-8 mm. wide, coarsely hirsute ; 

 spikes at first very short, subcapitate, in age 4-5 cm. long; calyx- 

 lobes 2 mm. long, lance-subulate, hispid, in fruit 3-4 mm. long; 

 corolla about 3 mm, long; limb scarcely i mm. wide; nutlets 

 ovate, 2 mm.' long, hght-colored, smooth, shining, thin-walled, 



attached by the lower half ox two thirds ; groove closed and simple 



to the base. 



This species is related to Cryptanthe affinis and C leiocarpa, 

 but differs from both in the broader leaves. The nutlets are most 

 like those of the former but the attachment extends somewhat 



higher. 



Wyoming: Upper Madison Canon, Yellowstone Park, Aug, 3, 

 1897, Rydberg^ Bessey 4.88^ (type, in herb. N. Y. Bot Gard.). 



Idaho : Beaver Canon, June 2'j, 1895, Rydberg ; Latah 

 County, July 6, 1894, Piper ig^o. 



Utah : Central Utah, 1875, Parry Sy (?). 



Cryptanthe grandiflora sp. nov, 



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Annual ; stem branched, 2-4 dm. high, hirsute with white 

 hairs ; leaves broadly linear, lanceolate, or oblong, 3-5 cm. long, 

 S-io mm. wide, hirsute, the hairs with pustulate bases ; spikes 

 lax, in fruit often i dm. long ; calyx^lobes 3 mm. long, in fruit 5 

 mm., very hispid ; corolla white, 4-5 mm. long ; limb 5-6 mm. 

 ■w^ide; nutlets ovate, 2.5 mm. long, shining, smooth, rather thin- 

 walled ; groove narrow, 2-forked at the base. 



