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both sides towards the apex and often 

 also laterally margined, on the back 

 rugose or roughened: insertion above 

 the base or median, the scar raised and 

 rounded and leaving a corresponding 

 depression on the receptacle or gyno- 

 base. 



Pop-corn fls. 



200 



CRYPTANTHE BARBIGERA Greene. 



Rather stout, much branched, 2-4 

 dm hi, hispid and hirsute; Ivs narrow- 

 7 linear; spikes elongated, fls becom- 

 ' ln S rather distant; ex-lobes linear, at- 

 tenuate, 6-8 mm long in fr, covered 

 with long shaggy bristles, usually in- 

 termingled with long w villous hairs; 



prostrate branches: ex persistent, not 

 circumscissile. 



332 



COOPER! A. Gray. 

 Diffusely branched from the base 

 wfth slender sparsely-leaved ascending 

 flg sts, 1.5-3 dm long, hispidulous; Ivs 

 spatulate-linear to oblong-lanceolate; 



4-6 mm broad; nutlets trigonous and 

 reticulate rugose, dentate-muriculate 

 on the reticulations. 



Abrams, Fl LA 333. 

 PLAGIOBOTHRYS NOTHOFULVUS 



Plant erect, 1-2Y 2 ft hi; sta 1 to sev- 

 eral from the depressed rosulate tuft 

 of Ivs, branching^ mostly above, the 

 branches widely spreading or erect; 

 herbage silky-villous, hairs very r'ish 

 only when young; Ivs oblong-ovate or 

 lanceolate; spikes leafless; ex cleft to 

 middle, 1% li long, in fr circumscis- 

 sile below the middle, the upper part 

 falling away and leaving the persistent 

 base about the nutlets; cor 2-3 li broad. 



Abrams, Fl LA 332. 



Genus CKYPTAXTHE Lehm. 



Mostly low erect branching setose 

 or hispid an herbs, with narrow alt 

 entire Ivs, and sm mostly w fls, in 

 rpioid bractless or bracteolate 

 spikes: ex 5-parted or-cleft, at length 

 decid, erect or spreading in fr: cor sm, 

 funnelform, usually with 5 scales clos- 

 ing the throat: sta included; fil short: 

 ova 4-divided; sty short; stig capitate: 

 nutlets erect, rounded on the back, the 

 margins obtuse, acute or winged, at- 

 tached laterally to the conic or elon- 

 gated receptacle, scar elongated. 

 CRYPTANTHE AMBIGUA Greene. 



Sts rather slender, loosely branching, 

 cm hi, sparsely hispid and hir- 

 sute; Ivs rather broadly linear; fls be- 

 coming scattered; ex-lobes 5-7 mm 

 long, beset with rather short, rigid 

 bristles; cor about 3 mm broad, nut- 

 lets deltoid-ovate, 2 mm long, brown- 

 ish, sparsely and faintly muricate. 



Abrams, Fl LA 334. 



Greene, Pitt 1:113 (1887). 



Hall. U 108. 



Coville. CXH 4:164. Tejon mts. 



Eritrichium muriculatum var. am- 

 biguum Gray, Syn Fl 2, pt 1, 194 (1878). 



Type locality: not given. Cal, Nev, 

 Wa~sh. Arizona? So Cal. 



Eritrichium ang-ustifolium Watson, 

 bot Kings R, 241 (not Torr). 



Eritrichium muriculatum Torr. 



TVilkes Esp xvii, t 13. 



Krynitzkia ambigua Gray. 



, 4 < TT , 



334. 



1 ; 114 I (1887 ", T , 

 : not glven - SBer Co 



i-ifi- T>^ 



' Pana mt mt |- 



erUm Gray ' Syn 

 California ; Bajal 

 CRYPTANTHE FJLACCIDA Greene. 



Slender, strict, 3-6 dm hi, strigulose 

 with minute close pubescence; Ivs lin- 

 ear, minutely more or less strigulose- 

 hispid; ex erect in fr, appressed to the 

 rachis, 4-5 mm long; sep filiform-lin- 

 f**- T > . , thic . k i sh ; below, their bases very 

 hispid with deflexed and strong, some- 

 wnat j 10 *?? bristles; nutlets solitary, 

 scarcely flattened ventrally, the groove 

 > attacn rnent enlarged at base but not 

 furcate. So Cal to Wash. 



Abrams, Fl LA 34. Chatsworth 



A 

 : 



. 



D Myosotis 

 Pa 2:2 2 (1830). 



Dou s! M S, Lehm. 



Krynitzkia oxycarya Gray. 

 CRYPTAXTHE INTERMEDIA Greene. 



Cx-lobs 3-5 mm long, armed with 

 rather rigid and pungent, w.'ish or 

 rusty-y'ish bristles; cor usually less 

 than 4 mm broad; nutlets grayish, 

 about 2 mm long, oblong-ovate, thick- 

 ly rough-muricate; scar wholly or part- 

 ly open, with an open areola. 



Abrams, Fl LA 334. 



Greene, Pittonia 1:114 (1S3 7 ). 



Coville, CNH 4:165. 



Eritrichium intermedium Gray, Am 

 ac pr 17:225 (18S2). 



LA; SD; Mohave Desert; Baja Cal. 

 CRYPTANTHE LEIOCARPA Greene. 



Commonly branched from the ba&e, 

 1-3 dm hi; spikes leafy bracted, the 

 teiminal larger and interrupted, the 

 lateral short and glomerate; sep short- 

 linear, rispid bristly, nutlets 4, narrow- 

 ly ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, the ven- 

 tral grove not forked or scarcely so. 



Abrams, Fl LA 335. 



Santa Cruz Island (Greene). 

 CRYPTANTHE MICROSTACHYS 

 Greene. 



Rarely over 3 dm hi, much branched 

 from the base, hispidulous or hispid; ex 

 in fr ascending or erect, but not ap- 

 pressed to the rachis, 2-3.5 mm long; 

 sep linear, hispid with widely spread- 

 ing, but not deflexed. straight and 

 somewhat pungent hairs; nutlet soli- 

 tary, somewhat flattened laterally, the 



