NEW SPECIES OF CRYPTANTHE. 53 
NEw SPECIES OF CRYPTANTHE. 
C. MONOSPERMA. Very erect, rather slender and strict, a foot 
high, leafy up to the middle, thence parting into a few slender 
rigidly ascending branches ending in a simple or forked lax spike : 
both stem and foliage rather softly hirsute and without other 
pubescence: spikes seldom more than 2 inches long in fruit ; 
calyx scarcely more than 14 lines long; sepals linear-lanceolate, 
not attenuate at tip, nor spreading, equally stiff-hirsute from 
base to apex with ascending bristly-hairs, a more short and 
densely appressed villosity underneath the bristles: nutlet soli- 
tary, almost filling the calyx, ovate from a truncate base and 
acute, the forked groove completely closed throughout, the 
rounded back sparsely tuberculate and densely scabrous-muri- 
culate, the muriculation not very acute. 
My type of this very neat species is Mr. Suksdorfs’ n. 180, ob- 
tained on the Columbia River in 1885, and distributed for C. 
muriculata, Later, Dr. Gray would have referred it to C. amdigua 
to which it is more akin, and it is from the habitat, nearly, of the 
original C. amdigua, and, in view of Dr. Torrey’s remark that, in 
his plant the nutlets are often solitary, I should like to have 
felt warranted in taking this for the real C. amdigua, but such 
an assumption could not be made in the face of that other state- 
ment that in his plant the nutlet has an open groove divaricately 
forked at base. The figure of the nutlet represents something 
certainly very unlike that of what I have here in hand. 
C. GRISEA. Stoutish, almost fastigiately branched from near 
the base, } foot high, both stem and leaves cinereous with a 
copious stiff-hirsute or almost hispid coat of spreading hairs, and 
a less copious indument of fine closely-appressed ones under- 
neath : spikes short and subsessile, always in pairs or threes; 
rather dense: fruiting calyx 2 lines long; sepals lanceolate, his- 
