110 : PITTONIA. 
CRYPTAN THE, Lehmann. 
Racemes or spikes naked. Calyx deciduous (except in 
some of the last group, Plerygium), together with its filiform 
pedicel when present, or the latter (in C. racemosa) per- 
sistent, 5-parted to the base ; segments erect, usually closely 
embracing the fruit, the attenuate and elongated tips some- 
times spreading above it and hispid with straight or hooked 
bristles. Nutlets 4 (sometimes by abortion 2 only or 1), 
smooth, tuberculate or muriculate, seldom rugulose, not cari- 
nate (though with a dorsal ridge in one or two species), 
often with acute or even strongly winged margins, attached 
from the base upwards commonly to near the apex; groove 
and sear open or closed.—Pilose-hispid slender annuals (ex- 
cept C. racemosa, a half-shrubby perennial), with bractless 
flowers rarely glomerate rather than spicate or racemose. 
Herbage and root imparting no stain. Leaves alternate, nar- 
row and entire. Flowers in the South American type minute 
and cleistogamous, whence the generic name, not strictly ap- 
propriate to the North American species.— Lehm. Sem. Hort. 
Hamb. (1832); Fisch. & Mey. Sem. Hort. Petrop. (1836). 35 ; 
Linnea (Litteratur Berieht), xi. (1837) 103; Don. Gen. Syst. 
iv. 373 (1838): Krynitzkia, Fisch. & Mey. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 
1841. 52: Species of Eritrichium, A. DC. Prod. x, and of 
Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. part 1: Krynitzkia 8 Eukrynitzkia, Gray, 
Proc. Am. Acad. xx. and Syn. Fl. Suppl 
(A.) SOUTH American SPECIES. 
l. C. GLOMERATA, Lehm. Ereet, branching above, pubes- 
cence spreading and both setose and hirsute, the latter kind 
! Of these T take up only such as exist in the herbarium of the Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences. There are, as Prof. Gray has remarked 
“many more in the books,” and, I would add, doubtless many more 
genuine species in fact. 
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