394 POLYGONACEAE 



Locs. Descanso, K. Brandegee; Witch Creek, Alderson; Coahuilla Valley, Jepson 1479; 

 San Jacinto Valley, Reinhardt; Elysian Park, Los Angeles, Braunton 418; Riverside, Wilder; 

 San Bernardino, Parish, Jepson 5565; McKittrick, Heller 7797; San Emigdio Canon, Davy 

 1974; Alcalde, Brandegee; Pacific Valley, Eastwood; Eancho San Miguelito, Jolon, Jepson 

 1623; Atascadero, Brewer 894; Arroyo Grande, King; Bakersfield, Davy 1882; Greenhorn 

 Mts., Hall $ Babcock 5081; N. Fork Kaweah, Jepson 564. 



Var. nudicaule Jepson n. comb. Herbage commonly greenish ; flowers white. 

 Mountain slopes along the coast from Santa Barbara to Echo Mt. 



Eefs. CHOBIZANTHE STATJCOIDES Benth. Trans. Linn. Soe. 17: 418 (1837), type from 

 California, Douglas. C. xanti Wats. Proc. Am. Aead. 12: 272 (1877), at least as to the type 

 spms. from Fort Tejon, being the one first cited. Var. NUDICAULE Jepson. C. nudicaule 

 Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2, 1: 166 (1847), type loc. Santa Barbara, Nuttall. C. wheeleri 

 Wats. 1. c., type loc. Santa Barbara, Bothrock, which is clearly the equivalent of C. nudicaule 

 Nutt. 



9. C. valida AVats. Erect, 4 to 6 inches high, once or twice di- or tri-choto- 

 mously branched ; leaves spatulate ; involucral teeth or lobes not margined but 

 awned; awns mostly straight; inflorescence similar to the preceding; flowers 

 pedicellate, partly exserted: calyx-segments oblong, erose-denticulate, hirsute 

 along the back on the midvein, very unequal (the alternate only i/ 2 as long). 



Sonoma ; Petaluma ; Russian River. Rarely collected and little known. Per- 

 haps only a variety of C. pungens. 



Refs. CHORIZANTHE VALIDA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 271 (1877), type specimens from 

 Sonoma Co.; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. ed. 2, 129 (1911). 



10. C. palmeri Wats. Stem erect, trichotomous, 5 to 12 inches high, the 

 ends of the simple or dichotomous branches bearing head-like clusters of erect 

 compactly crowded involucres, the forks usually with solitary involucres; 

 herbage hairy pubescent; leaves in a basal tuft, oblong-spatulate, % to l 1 /^ 

 inches long ; bracts of the flower clusters setaceous ; involucres cylindric or a 

 little contracted upward, l 1 /^ to 2 lines long, 6-ribbed, 6-toothed, the larger 3 

 unequal, the smaller 3 nearly equal, all tipped with mostly straight spines ; 

 flowers rose-color, exserted, very shortly pedicelled; calyx shortly cleft, the 

 outer lobes roundish, entire, the inner shorter, truncate or bifid, shortly 

 laciniate-f ringed ; stamens 9. 



Dry hills, Monterey and San Luis Obispo cos. 



Locs. Jolon, K. Brandegee; San Miguelito Rancho, Jepson; Nacimiento River, Davy; 

 San Simeon, K. Brandegee; San Luis Obispo, K. Brandegee; Creston, Barber; Santa Maria, 

 Blochman. 



Ref. CHORIZANTHE PALMERI Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 271 (1877), type loc. San Luis 

 Obispo, Palmer 464. 



11. C. fimbriata Nutt. Stem erect or diffuse, trichotomous at first node, 

 then dichotomously branching, 4 to 10 (or 15) inches high, the involucres 

 solitary in the forks or clustered along the terminal branchlets; herbage red- 

 dish, lightly pubescent; leaves basal, spatulate or obovate, narrowed to a 

 petiole, 1 to 2 inches long; bracts subulate or acicular; involucres cylindrical, 

 2 to 3 lines long, 6-ribbed, ending in 6 spreading spine-tipped teeth, the 

 alternate teeth smaller; teeth uncinate (or straight); calyx white, exserted, 

 its lobes ovate-lanceolate, equal, irregularly fringed on each side, mostly below 

 the middle; stamens 6. 



San Diego Co. May-July. 



Locs. San Diego, Brandegee, Chandler, Jepson 1591; Spring Valley, Hall 3892; Pala, 

 Parish 4399. 



Var. laciniata Jepson n. comb. Habit, foliage, involucres and pubescence 

 that of the species; calyx rose-color, its lobes laciniate-fringed throughout. 

 San Diego Co. 



Locs. Witch Creek, Alderson; Cuyamaea, K. Brandegee; Descanso, K. Brandegee; Palo- 

 mar, Jepson 1516. Also in Lower Cal. 



Refs. CHORIZANTHE FIMBRIATA Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Phila. ser. 2, 1: 168 (1847), type loc. 

 San Diego, Nuttall; Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 5 2 : 364, t. 8 (1857). Var. LACINIATA Jepson. C. 

 laciniata Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 7": 19 (1856), type loc. San Felipe, Thos. Antisell. 



