1899] NEW SPECIES OF WESTERN+PLANTS 453 
at length remote: calyx 2-3" long, yellowish-setose, slightly 
elongating in fruit, not appressed to the rachis, strongly gibbous 
from the horizontal development of the solitary nutlet: corolla 
4-5™" long and the spreading lobes quite as broad, throat nearly 
closed by the prominent white processes: nutlets lanceolate, 
light brown, 2-5" long, rather sharply angled, recurved at the 
tip, minutely tessellate and with scattered papille; groove trian- 
gular, excavated, a little more than one third as long as the nutlet. 
Stites, Colusa county, and also in adjacent Lake county, 
California, 7. S. Brandegee, April 1892. 
Cryptanthe costata, n.sp.— Annual, 0.5—2™ high, erect, rigid, 
branching from the base, appressed-pubescent and pilose-hispid ; 
the inflorescence hispid and bracteate throughout: leaves nar- 
towly lanceolate, widest at base, 2-3 long: bracts nearly as 
long as the rather dense fruiting calyxes: flowers 2™" long, 
scarcely spreading, constricted below the white processes: 
fruiting calyxes about 5" long, the slender costate segments 
_ fect persistent and not spreading: nutlets four, minutely and 
itregularly rugose, sharply thin-margined, the three smaller a 
little more than 1™ long, the fourth larger and more persistent, 
the ventral face triangular-lanecolate, the groove of the same 
Shape, open quite to the base. 
Borregos springs, Colorado desert, 7. S. Brandegee, April 18, 
1895, 
In appearance it is somewhat intermediate between C. angustifolia and 
C. crassisepala. At maturity it is of a shining straw color, and quite con- 
‘picuous on account of the glistening sete of the large persistent calyxes. 
CRYPTANTHE RAMosissima Greene. Dr. Rose, working with 
additional material collected by Dr. Palmer,’ has corrected errors 
of the earlier descriptions, and noting the second nutlet ones 
developed records his opinion that K. ramosissima and K. oe 
ate too nearly related. This opinion seems to be fully justified, 
for the only means of separating them seems to be by Hiei 
mia, the mainland forms passing usually as Krynitskia or 
*Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 11: 532. 
