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groove of attachment divaricately 

 forked and somewhat open at the base. 



Abrams, PI LA 334 

 CRYPTANTHE RAMOSISSIMA Greene, 



Pitt 1:116 (1887). 



Coville, CNH 4:165. 



Krynitzka damosissima, Greene, 



Cal ac b 1:203 (1885). Gray, Am ac 

 pr 20:277. 



Type locality: "Mohave Desert," 

 Curran. Not from Cerros or Guadalupe 

 Islands fide Greene. 



Eritrichium racemosum, Watson. 



Krynitzka racemosa Greene, Cal. ac 

 to 1:208. 



CD (Parish 775). Baja mts and des- 

 ert (Or.). San Julio canyon, etc., Baja 

 (Br). 

 CRYPTANTHE MURICULATA Greene. 



Rather stout, branching, rough-hir- 

 sute or hispid, 2-4 dm hi, with well de- 

 veloped rather dense spikes, mastly in 

 2's ahd 3's at the ends of the branches; 

 ex about 3 mm long, lanceolate; cor 4-6 

 anm long; nutlets 2 mm long, muricate~ 

 papillose and somewhat rugose on the 

 "back; ventral groove and its basal 

 bifurcation mostly closed, lateral an- 

 gles acutish, distinct. 



Abrams, PI LA 333. 



Genus AMSINCKIA Lchm. 



Ann with rough-hairy herbage, the 

 hairs commonly with pustulate-dilated 

 : t>ase, of,ten conspicuously hardened or 

 granular: fls y, in elongated spike: sep 

 5, or 4 or 3 through union of 2 in 1: 

 cor salverform, throat somewhat fun- 

 nelform with more or less distinct 

 folds but destitute of crests or pro- 

 cesses: sty filiform: nutlets crustace- 

 ous, triquerous or ovate-triangular, 

 smooth or rough: cotyledons deeply 2- 

 parted. 

 AMSINOKIA ECHINATA A. Gray. 



Nutlets beset with prickly projec- 

 tions. 



Mohave region (Cooper). 

 AMSINCKIA TESSELLATA A. Gray. 



Nutlets much flattened on back, with 

 coarse granulations. 



Contra Costa range to Baja mts! Utah; 

 Nevada; Cat. 

 AMSINCKIA GRANDIFLORA Kleeb. 



Nutlets smooth and polished, Anti- 

 och, Cal. 

 AMSINCKIA L.YCOPSOIDES Lehm. 



Nutlets brown or blackish, muricu- 

 late and rugose, minute. 



Br Zoe 1:114, Cat. Da 12. 

 AMSINCKIA SPECTABILIS P. & M. 



Nutlets somewhat flattened laterally, 

 reticulate-rugulose, granulate. 



Parish, Zoe 5:117, recognizes only this 

 species in So Cal. Plumas Co to Qwintin. 



P. & M, Sem Petrop 2:26 (1835). 



Parish, Zoe 5:117, recognizes only 

 this species in So Cal. Plumas Co to 

 Quintin! 



Hall U 108. 



Type locality: not given. 



Coville, CNH 4:166, near SBer. 

 AMSINCKIA INTERMEDIA P. & M, 



Nutlets much incurved, carinate dor- 

 sally; cor uder y 2 i long. 



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,Fls chrome y' with orange spots at 

 base of the divisions of the cor. Cruz, 

 Baja. 



British Columbia to Quintin! Cruz; Cat; 

 Rosa. 

 CUSCUTACEAE. 



W or y slender twining parasites, the 

 Ivs reduced to minute alt scales: ex 

 5-lobed, rarely 4-lobed or 4-5-parted, 

 the lobes imbricated in the bud: cor 

 usually campanulate, 5-lobed, rarely 

 4-lobed. the tube bearing as many fim- 

 briate or crenulate scales as there are 

 lobes and alt with them, or these 

 sometimes obsolete: sta as many as 

 cor-lobes and alt with them, inserted 

 in the throat or sinuses above the 

 scales; anth short, 2-celled, longitud- 

 inally dehiscent: ova 2-celled; ovules 2 

 in each cavity; stys 2, separate or 

 rarely united below; stigmas capitate 

 or linear: cap globose or ovoid, cir- 

 cumscissile, irregularly bursting or in- 

 dehiscent, 1-4-seeded: sds globose or 

 angular; embryo linear, curved or 

 spiral; cotyledons 0. 



Genus CTJSCUTA Tournefort. 



Ann parasitical leafless herbs, desti- 

 tute of green color, with twining fili- 

 form stems: fls small, in lateral heads 

 or clusters: ex colored like the cor, 

 deeply 5-cleft: cor companulate or 

 somewiiat urn-shaped to short-tubu- 

 lar, with 5 usually spreading lobes im- 

 bricated in the bud, and as many sm 

 scales or appendages inserted in the 

 tube below the sta or o; ovary globu- 

 lar, 2-celled, 4-ovuled: stigma globose: 

 capsule 1-4-seeded: cotyledons 0. Dod- 

 der. 

 CUSCUTA SUBINCLLiSA D. & H. 



Sts commonly stout; fls sessile or 

 nearly so, i / -.-4 li long; lobes of cor 

 short, tube somewhat urn-shaped, only 

 partly covered by the fleshy, usually 

 reddish ex. Common on coarse herbs 

 and shrubs. Cruz. "The most com- 

 mon species in the state." Greene. 



Abrams, Fl LA 311. 



Genus SOL.ANUM Tournefort. 



Herbs or shrubs, often stellate-pi*)- 

 escent: fls cymose, paniculate or ra- 

 cemose, w, blue, p or y: ex campanu- 

 late or rotate, mostly 5-toothed or 

 cleft: cor rotate, the limb plaited in 

 the bud, 5-angeled or -lobed: sta in- 

 serted on the throat of cor; fil short, 

 anth linear or oblong; acute or acum- 

 inate, connate or connivent into a cone; 

 anth-sacs dehiscent by a terminal pore 

 or by a short introrse terminal slit, or 

 longitudinally: ova usually 2-celled; 

 stig SHI: fr a several-seeded berry. 

 SOLANUM ELAEAGNIFOLITJM Cav. 



Parish Erythea 3:61. "Well estab- 

 lisned by roadsides at South Riverside, 

 Cal. (W. J. Lester). 

 SOLANUM ROSTRATUM Dunal. 



Ann, erect, branching, 1-3 dm hi, 

 pubescent with long y'ish stellate hairs 

 and armed with long straight prickles; 

 Ivs pinnatifid; ex densely prickly, its 

 lobes narrow, nearly half the length 

 f the cor and enclosing tne fr; cor 



