486 BORAGINACE At OREOCARYA 
CRYPTANTHE 
11 OREOCARYA Greene Pitt. i, 57. — 
KRYNITZKIA § Pseudokrynitzkia Gray. 
Coarse perennial or biennial herbs with alternate leaves and ~ 
mostly white flowers on persistent pedicels, in glomerate or pan- 
iculate, bracted racemes. Calyx 5-parted to the base, more or less 
spreading in fruit, not circumscissile nor deciduous. Corolla with 
prominent folds in the throat, and at base within 10-squamellate 
or annulate-glandular. Nutlets not carinate on the back, triangu- 
lar or triquetrous, with acute but not winged lateral angles, at- 
tached for most of their length to a commonly subulate gynobase, 
the scar very slender and usually with transversely dilated base. 
* Tube of the corolla’ not longer than the calyx and little if any 
longer than its lobes; with a ring of 10 small scales or glands near the 
base within: anthers oval or oblong: style rather short. 
Q. glomerata Greene Pitt. i, 58. Cynoglossum glomeratum Pursh. 
Krynitzkiafglomerata_ Gray. Grayish-hirsute and hispid: stems stout, 
erect, 6-20 inches high, from the crown of a biennial or short-lived peren- 
nial root : leaves spatulaté or linear-spatulate, 1-2 inches long: inflorescence 
thyrsiform, and usually dense the short and often forked lateral spikes at 
length commonly exceeding the subtending leaves: sepals very setose-his- 
pid, linear, 2-3 lines long: limb of the corolla 3-5 lines in diameter, the 
crests in the throat truacate: nutlets forming an ovoid fruit, each triangu- 
lar-ovate, sparsely more or less tuberculate-rugose on the back, with sharp 
lateral edges, the sulcate ventral angle extending into a broad basal sear. 
On dry hillsides, eastern Washington to New Mexico, Nebraska and the 
Saskatchewan. Sy 
0. sericea Greene l. c. Krynitzkia sericea Gray. Canescent with a 
dense silky pubescence and bristly-hirsute: stems stout, simple, 4-8 inches 
high, from a somewhat woody perennial caudex, leafy: leaves spatulate or 
oblanceolate, obtusejJatjjthe apex, narrowed below to a broad petiole, in- 
cluding the petiole 1-2 inches long: flowers numerous, in a short thyrsus: 
calyx cleft nearly to the base, the linear or lanceolate segments about equ- 
alling the tube of the corolla, bristly-hirsute: limb of the corolla 3-5 lines 
-broad, the ovate lobes 2 lines long: nutlets oblong-ovate, obtuse, somewhat 
rugose-tuberculate on the back. Dry hillsides, eastern Washington‘and 
Oregon to Utah and Colorado. 
* * — Tube of the salverform corolla longer than the calyx and twice 
or thrice the length of the lobes; the ring within at the base of the 
tube inconspicuous and truncate: crests of the throat large, often elon- 
gated : anthers linear-oblong: style long and filiform. 
0. leucophea Greene l. c,, Myosotis leucophaea Dougl. Krynitzkia 
leucophaea Gray. Silky-strigose and silvery-canescent : stems many or few 
from the lignescent base or root, 6-12 inches high: leaves lanceolate to 
linear, acute, 2-4 inches long: inflorescence glomerate-spicate hispid with 
whitish or yellowish hairs and slender bristles: calyx 5-cleft nearly to the 
base, the linear segments 3-4 lines long: corolla yellow:, with tube longer 
than the calyx: nutlets ovate-triquetrous, very smooth and polished, 
ivory-like, 144-2 lines long; gynobase very slender. On sandy plains, 
Brit, Columbia to California and Utah. East of the Cascade Mountains. 
12 CRYPTANTHE Lehm. Sem. Hort. Hamburg. 1882. 
KRYNITZKIA F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. vii, 52. 1841. 
Low setose or hispid branching annuals with narrow alternate 
