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6. OREOCARYA. (Krynitskia in part). 



Rough -bristly biennials or perennials from woody roots. 

 Inflorescence thyrsoid or racemose-paniculate. Flowers salver- 

 form; white or yellow, crested in the throat. Stamens included. 

 Style mostly short. 'Ovary deeply 4-lobed. Nutlets 4, attached 

 laterally to an awl-shaped prolongation of the receptacle. 



1. O. sericea (Gray) Greene. Cats' Eyes. Loosely tufted, a 

 span high or less, with short branches; the dead leaf-bases 

 conspicuous. Leaves crowded on the crowns, spatulate to nar- 

 rowly obovate; basal or alternate, the latter sessile. Inflor- 

 escence at first crowded, with tawny-yellow pubescence. Cor- 

 olla white, with yellow throat and crests. Nutlets oblong- 

 ovate, with small tubercles on the back. Dry hillsides. 

 April-June. 4,500-6.000 ft. 



7. CRYPTANTHE. 



Simple-branched annuals usually with sessile white flowers. 

 Inflorescence mostly scorpioid-spicate. Calyx 5-parted to the 

 base, closed in fruit; as long as the corolla-tube. Nutlets 

 usually 4, but sometimes less; never rugose; attached to gyno- 

 base at the middle or wholly to apex along scar. 



1. C. Torreyana (Gray) Greene. Erect; white-hairy; 

 branched from the middle and sometimes from the base. Spikes 

 commonly elongated, loose below; often in pairs. Nutlets ovate 

 and acute; the groove forked at base, the fork sometimes 

 minute. In dry ground. May-June. 



8. PLAGIOBOTHRYS. Pop-corn Flower. 



Annuals with erect or decumbent elongated branches. 

 Leaves mostly in a close rosette. Racemes spike-like and 

 loose; with or without bracts. Pedicels thread-like; very 

 short, persistent. Calyx 5-cleft or 5-parted; soft-pubescent 

 with rusty hairs, especially when young. Corolla short, white, 

 with crests or processes usually at the mouth of the thfoat. 

 Nutlets roughened on the back. 



1. P. tenellus (Nutt.) A. Gray. Branching at or near the 

 base, 3-7 inches high. Basal leaves oblong and obtuse or acute; 

 stem-leaves few, ovate or oblong-ovate. Flowers few. Calyx 

 deeply cleft, sometimes imperfectly circumscissile. Nutlets 

 small; shining and enamel-like on the back. Dry plains. May. 



VERBENACE-ffi. Verbena Family. 



Herbs with exstipulate and usually opposite leaves. 

 Flowers complete. Calyx 4-5-parted. Corolla 4-5- 

 cleft ; 2-lipped 1 or sometimes regular. Stamens didyna- 

 mous or rarely diandrous, borne on the corolla-lobes 

 and alternate with them. Pistil consists of 1 terminal 

 style, 1 or 2 stigmas and a "superior" 2-4-celled ovary, 

 ripening into 2-4 seed-like nutlets. 



