214- 



dular; Ivs lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 15-25 mm long-, acute, narowed at base 



late 5-20 cm long, attenuate to the to a 4-S mm long petiole; bracts all sm, 



tapering to trie snort petiole, triangular- inv loosely spicate along 



ciliate, inconspicuously punctate; the ascending branches, 3 mm hi, the 



sheath cylindric, ribbed or striate; teeth rigid, acute; perianth rose color, 



racemes panicled, 2.5-10 cm long, 3 mm lonp-; ak scabrous on the angles 



drooping, narrow, rather dense, above, these acute at base, 



ex pink, w or e'ish, 5-parted; sta 6; sty Abrams, Fl LA 118. Gabriel mts. 



2 -parted to below the middle; ak len- Sacramento to Baja! X M; Nevada, 



ticular, 2 mm long. Variety TAXIFOLIUM Parish. 



\brams Fl L\ 122 E. Taxifolium Greene, pitt, 1:267; 2:295. 



- enu 9 NEMACAt-HS Nu.tall. h ,^'^ h E JX ^t^Ms? 



Slender diffuse, ann, with spatulate Spencer valley. SD Co (R. D. Alderson); 



mostly radical Ivs and no stipules: fls an( j eastern base of Grayback Mt. in 



capitate, each with a free herbaceous Whitewater canyon, Cal. Ha U 74. 



bract, perfect: ex 6-cleft, colored, en- r-wnniy A vnwi? w 



closing the ak: sty 3; stig- capitate: ak Genus CHORIZ.4ATHE R. Brown. 



short-ovoid, obscurely 3-angled. Low, dichotomously-branched ann 



XP:MACAUL1S NUTTALLII Bentham. herbs, with rosulate basal Ivs and o, p 



Sts prostrate or ascending 1 , 15-30 cm or ternate st-lvs, often reduced and 



long, -"labrate, r'ish; ivs narrowly bracteate: involucre 1-tid, or rarely 



spatulate, 2-5 cm long, including the 2-3-fld, tubular or funnelform, sessile, 



short petiole, densely tomentose-hairy 3-6-angled or costate, 3-6-tootned or 



on both sides; bractlets of the fl-clus- 3-6-cleft, its teeth divaricate, cuspidate 



ters obovate-spatulate, 2 mm long, the or awned: fls pedicillate or nearly ses- 



outer flowerless, the inner smaller, sile, included within the involucre, or 



woollv within and glabrous without; the seg protruding: ex 6-parted or 



fl5S y'ish, scarcely 1 mm long, short- 6-cleft, colored: sta usually 9, rarely 3 



pedicellate, glabrous; inner seg broad- or 6, adnate to base of ex-tube: ova 



est; ak 0.7 mm long. glabrous. 



.Nemacaulis denudata Xutt, Phila, ac CHORIZANTHE CALIFORXICA A. G. 



J II, 1:168. Hirsute and glanaular, 3 dm hi or 



Xemacaulis foliosa Nutt, Phila, J ac less, often r'ish; bracts 1-2 cm broad, 



II, 1:168. lateral or rarely perfoliate, lobed; in- 



Eriogonum denudatum ^urran, Cal volucres on contracted branchlets and 



ac pr. often clustered in tne axils, 4-6 mm 



Xemacaulis denudata and foliosa Xutt long, obtusely angled, 2-3-toothed and 



Phila ac J II, 1:168. 2-3-sidea: seg of perianth obovate, en- 



S D to San Borgia. Baja (Br). C D! tire, villous-pubescent on the midvein. 



ERIOGOXUM VIMIXEUM Dougl. Abrams, Fl LA 113. "Common on 



Glabrous or tomentose toward the sandy soil." 



base, erect, 2-4 dm hi, much branched SBer to San Diego; Da 15. 

 from near the base, the branches elon- CHORIZAXTHE FERXAXDIXA S. Wat 

 gated and virgate, the lower common- Procumbent, rather stout, strongly 

 ly in whorls of 4-5; lower forks often silky-pubescent, 6-10 .:m long; ivs nar- 

 leafy; Ivs orbicular to broadly ovate, rowly oblanceolate, no: tomeniose; low- 

 6-1S* mm long, w-tomentose beneath, fr bracts foliaceous, the -ipper narrow- 

 becoming g-labrate aoove, the margins ly linear; tube of inv 2 mm long, teeth 

 undulate on petioles of about the stout, with straight awns; fls w, 2 mm 

 same length; inv very narrow, 2 mm long;- lobes nearly equal, broa lly ob- 

 hi; fls few, pale rose or y'ish, 2 mm long, alt ones slightly narrower, 

 long, outer seg obovate; inner oblong. Ch atsworth Park 



Davidson, PI LA Co 14. .\brams, Fl LA 114. 



Jeoson Ervthea 1-12 San Fernando, Cal. (Mrs. A. E. Bush). 



Abrams Fl' LA 119'. ' Baja (Or 1369). near Quintin! 



Washington; Nevada; Baja! San Fernando Cal. airs. A. E. 



ERIOGOXUM VIRGATUM Bentham. Bush); Quintin! Da lo. 



Slender, 3-6 dm hi, tomentose CHORIZAXTHE LEPTOCEROS S. Wat. 



throughout, branches few, ascending, Very slender and nearly glabrous: 



elongated,' strictly virgate or flexuous; Ivs and bracts as in C. Thurberi; inv 

 bracts lanceolate, shorter than the 4-6 mm long, somewhat hirsute, deeply 



inv, sometimes including 1 or more Ivs; 4-6-cleft. the coriaceous turbinate base 



inv tomentose, narrow, 4 mm long; surrounded by as many rigid usually 

 perianth 2 mm long, w or y'ish, gla-. hooked awn-like spurs: lobes rigid, nar- 



brous. row, unequal, attenuate, into straight 



Bentham, in DC Prodr 14:16 (1856). rig-id somewhat divergent awns; fls 2 



Type locality: "in California." - or 3, occasionally exserted, villous- 



Coville, CXH 4:188. pubescent, i mm long: seg narrowly ob- 



Davidson, PI LA Co 15. long to ovate, nearly equal. 



Jepson, Erythea 1:13. Abrams, Fl LA 113. "on dry sandy 



Abrams, Fl LA 119. plains from San Gabriel eastward." 



Siskiyou Co (Greene). Davidson, PI LA Co 15. 



ERIOGOXUM WRIGHTII Torr. Near SBer (Parish 829, Parry). Da 15. 



Much branched, leafy at base, 2-5 dm CHORIZANTHE PARRYI S. Watson, 

 hi, rather slender; Ivs oblong-ovate, Branching from the base. 5-8 cm hi 



