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K. stipitata, Greene, Ten to 18 inches high, erect and simple or with ascending 

 branches from the base, light green, nearly glabrous: calyx nearly sessile, segments 

 spreading foliaceous, in fruit often 6 lines long: corolla short-funnelform, 3-6 lines 

 broad: nutlets slender-ovoid, the back covered with blunt tubercles and transverse 

 wrinkles, divergent, stipitate. This, according to Greene, is one of the most common 

 species in Central California. Moist land. 



K. Hickmanii, Greene. Very slender, diffuse, the filiform racemose branches 6-10 

 inches long: calyx a line long, on filiform pedicels: corolla a line or more broad: nutlets 

 dark colored, tuberculate. Monterey Co. 



K. hirta, Greene. Annual, more than a foot high, erect, flaccid, simple below with 

 many pairs of connate-sheathing linear leaves, loosely racemose above, bristly hairy: 

 racemes in pairs: pedicels slender, a line long: calyx lobes erect, very hairy: corolla 3 

 lines broad: ovoid nutlets dark colored, the back granulate aud obscurely wrinkled. 

 Umpqua Valley, Or. 



K. scripta, Greene. Somewhat succulent strigose-hairy: branches prostrate, 6-10 

 inches long: pedicels stout in the axils of leafy bracts: sepals oblanceolate at length, 

 standing vertically in row: nutlets a line long, the back dark and smooth, marked by a 

 sharp irregular flexuose with white ridges, these beset with tufts of short spreading 

 bristles. 



Section 3 is equivalent to Cryptanthe in Bay-Reg. Bot. The following species are to 

 be added: 



C. flaccida, Greene, is K. oxycarya of this book. 



K. Cleveland!, Greene. A foot or more high with few ascending branches rough 

 with bristly hairs: calyx slender, appressed to the rachis: nutlets 2 or 1, shining. 



K. hispidissima, Greene. Size of the last, but more branching, more densely hispid 

 with softer hairs, and the inflorescence more elongated: corolla conspicuous: nutlets 4, 

 similar to those of K. leiocarya, much surpassed by the slender calyx lobes. San Luis 

 Obispo Co. 



K. nemaclada, Greene. Slender, very diffusely branching, a foot high, sparsely 

 bristly-hairy: spikes very loose, almost filiform: calyx a line long appressed to the 

 rachis, bristly: nutlets 4, ovoid-acuminate \ a line long, shining. Colusa Co. 



K. Rattani, Greene. Hispid with slender hairs and slightly canescent, about a foot 

 high, slender but rigid: leaves linear: spikes in 3s on an elongated naked common 

 peduncle, rather densely flowered: calyx appressed to the rachis, its bristles spreading 

 and straight: nutlets (3 maturing) lance-ovoid 1| lines long, brownish and smooth but 

 not shining. First collected by Hickman in Monterey Co. 



K. crinita, Greene. Annual, slender 8-12 inches high, somewhat fastigiately 

 branched from the base, rather stiffly hirsute: leaves linear: dense spikes elongated : 



