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corolla cream-colored, about 12 mm. long. K. leucophaea A. Gray. Dry plains: 

 B.C. Calif. Ida. Son. My-Jl. 



41. O. alata (Jones) A. Nels. Stems 3-4 dm. high; basal leaves oblanceo- 

 late, 5-10 cm. long, silky-strigose, canescent; upper leaves linear-lanceolate; 

 inflorescence narrow; corolla white, 15-18 mm. long; limb 7-8 mm. wide; nutlets 

 sharply ovate-trigonous. K. leucophaea alata M. E. Jones. Mountain sides 

 and dry hills: s Utah. Submont, Je. 



11. ALLOCARYA Greene. 



Diffusely branched annuals. Lower leaves opposite, the upper alternate, 

 narrow, more or less hirsute. Flowers in scorpioid racemes, some leafy-bracted, 

 others not, perfect, regular. Calyx wholly persistent, 5-parted; lobes connivent 

 and enclosing the fruit. Corolla salver-shaped, white; tube usually short; throat 

 furnished with more or less conspicuous scales (fornices) ; limb 5-cleft. Nutlets 

 ovoid or oblong, or somewhat trigonous, obliquely attached by an oblong or 

 rounded scar to the low-conical receptacle. Seeds amphitropous, ascending. 



Racemes loose and leafy-bracted; corolla small, less than 2 mm. wide; nutlets more or 



Plant glabrous or nearly so. 1. A. orthocarpa. 



Plant decidedly hairy. 



Plant hirsute. 2. A. hispldula. 



Plant strigose. 



Calyx erect in fruit. 



Bracts oblong, scarcely more than twice as long as the flowers; nutlets 



uncinate-bristly on the back. 3. A. Nelsonii. 



Bracts (often lacking under some of the flowers) linear and resembling the 

 leaves; nutlets merely rugose on the back. 4. A. scopulorum. 



Calyx spreading in fruit; nutlets irregularly wrinkled on the back. 



5. A. cognata. 

 Racemes bractless; flowers 7-8 mm. broad; nutlets not rugose. 6. A. Hendersoni. 



1. A. orthocarpa Greene. Stem somewhat succulent, 7-20 cm. high; leaves 

 elongate-linear, 2-5 cm. long; spike long, strict; sepals erect, linear, twice as 

 long as the fruit; nutlets lanceolate in outline, transversely rugose and minutely 

 tuberculate. Wet places: Utah Wyo. Son. Submont. My-Je. 



2. A. hispidula Greene. Stem diffusely branched, 1-2 dm. high, hispid 

 with ascending hairs; leaves linear or narrowly linear-oblanceolate, hispid; 

 bracts small, scarcely exceeding the densely hispid calyces; nutlets 1.2 mm. long, 

 muriculate and rugose, with few transverse ridges. Valleys: Wash. Ida. 

 Nev. s Calif. Son. Je-Jl. 



3. A. Nelsonii Greene. Stem diffuse, branched, strigose, 1-2 dm. high; 

 leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, strigose, 1-3 cm. long; nutlets 1.5 

 mm. long, transversely rugose, somewhat muriculate. Saline flats and river 

 banks: S.D. Wyo. Ida. Jl-Au. 



4. A. scopulorum Greene. Stem ascending or spreading, branched, stri- 

 gose, 5-20 cm. high; leaves linear, strigose, 3-5 cm. long; nutlets ovate-lanceolate 

 in outline, muricate and transversely rugose. Sandy soil: Sask. Neb. Colo. 

 Utah Nev. Wash. Son. Mont. Je-Au. 



5. A. cognata Greene. Annual; stem slender, reclining, strigose-pubescent, 

 especially above; leaves linear; raceme loose; fruiting calyces spreading; nutlets 

 minute, broadly ovate, acuminate. Wet places: Utah. Son. Je. 



6. A. Hendersoni A. Nels. Stem simple at the base, but soon branched, 

 erect, 2-^4 dm. high, sparsely hirsute; leaves broadly linear, 4-6 cm. long, 3-6 mm. 

 wide, hirsute; racemes elongate, the terminal ones geminate; nutlets ovate, 2-3 

 mm. long, finely muricate, with a few larger papillae intermixed. Sandy soil: 

 Ida. Wash. Son. Ap-Je. 



12. CRYPTANTHA Lehm. 



Annual caulescent, branched herbs. Leaves alternate, narrow, entire. 

 Flowers perfect, regular, in scorpioid spikes or racemes. Calyx usually decidu- 

 ous with the fruit, 5-cleft; the lobes in fruit connivent around the nutlets. Cor- 



