488 BORAGINACE Zé CRYPTANTHE 
inate, a line long, the groove of the attachment divaricately forked”and 
somewhat open at the base. On dry hillsides, southern Oregan and adja- 
cent California. 
+ + Nutlets usually all4 maturing and all alike, either flattish or — 
angied ventrally, ovate in outline and acute or short acuminate, at- 
tached for half or nearly their whole length to the subulate gynobase, 
the slender groove not dilated at base into an open areola or scar. 
C. leiocarpa Greene |. c. 17, Krynitzkia leiocarpa F. & M. Strigose 
pubescent: stem 6-18 inches high, diffusely branching: spikes single or 
sometimes in pairs, often leafy at base, bractless above: leaves spatulate or 
linear 1-144 inches long: calyx erect, a line long, densely strigose-hirsute 
and with some coarser spreading bristles: nutlets flattish, the slender 
ventral groove continuous tothe very base of the nutlet and not at all 
furcate, attached nearly their whole length to the subulate gynobase.. 
Near the coast, Washington to California. . 
C. affinis Greene ]. c. 119. K. affinis Gray Rough-pubescent: stem 
slender, 6-12 inches high, diffusely branched: leaves spatulate, 1-2 inches 
long: spikes solitary, or sometimes in pairs, often leafy at base: sepals 
linear lanceolate much longer than the nutlets, strigose-hirsute with a 
few stout pungent spreading bristles: nutlets somewhat turgid, the groove 
simple and continuous to the very base, attached only up to the middle to 
the slender pyramidal gynobase, the free apical portion a little diverging. 
enue pines on the edge of forests, eastern Washington to California and 
aho. 
C. Torreyana Greene |. ¢. 118. K, Torreyana Gray. Hispid-hirsute: 
stem rather stout, 9-12 inches high, paniculately branched from the base: 
leaves linear-oblong, 1-2 inches long: spikes solitary or often in pairs, 1-4 
inches long: sepals lanceolate, in fruit atteuuate upward, twice as long as 
the nutlets, setose-hispid with stout spreading bristles: nutlets ovate, 
acute, attached barely to the middle to the subulate-pyramidal gynobase, 
the ventral groove divergently forked at base but without an open areola. 
Oregon to California and Idaho. = . 
* * * Nutlets muriculate or rough-papillose, all 4 alike, sometimes 
only 1 or 2 maturing, ovate-trigonous, attached from the base to or 
nearly to the apex: the ventral groove with or without an areola. 4 
C. barbigera Greene |. c. 114. Eritrichium barbigerum Gray. His- 
pid and hirsute: stem 4-12 inches hign, oe branching; leaves linear, 
an inch or less long: spikes solitary or paniculate : sepals narrowly linear, 
3-5 lines long thickly beset with long shaggy bristles, loose above: nutlets 
acuminate-ovate, very rough-muricate, ashy-gray, the open groove a little 
dilated at base. On dry plains, southeastern Oregon to California and 
Arizona. 
C. ambigua Greene |. c. 113. K. ambigua Gray. Rough-hirsute and 
the stem strigose-pubescent also: stem stoutish, 1-2 feet high, paniculately 
branched; leaves oblong to linear or linear-lanceolate, 6-20 lines long; 
spikes usually in pairs with a flower in the fork, naked, slender, sparsely 
to rather densely flowered: sepals lanceolate, but little more than a line 
long, somewhat connivent over the fruit, setose-hispid: nutlets ovate-tri- 
gonous, barely convex on the back, minutely Eepeaecmeee. the vent- 
ral groove closed above but moderately or barely open at the basal bifur- 
cation. . On dry stony hillsides, Oregon and Washington to California. 
C. muriculata Greene l. c. 113. K. muriculata Gray. Hispid-hir- 
sute with spreading hairs: stem stoutish, 6- 12 inches high : leaves spatulate 
or the upper ones linear, about an inch long: spikes often in pairs or col- 
lected in a 3-5-radiate paniculate cyme: sepals in fruit 2 lines long, lanceo- 
