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Cryptaiithe areiiicola 



Annual, 3 dm. high, rather lax, branched from near the 

 base, the branches ascending, scabrous with appressed sharp 

 hairs intermixed with a few spreading ones above; pustules at 

 base inconspicuous: leaves oblong, 2.5 cm, or less long, 3 mm. 

 wide, sessile, a little narrowed at base and apex, the lower ones 

 barely sub-acute, the upper acute, pubescence appressed but less 

 so than on the stem, the pustules conspicuous: inflorescence 

 4 cm. long or less, at length rather lax: flowers white, sub-sessile: 

 calyx 3 mm. long in flower, double that in fruit, the lobes lin- 

 ear, blunt, densely hispid: corollas small and narrow, little ex- 

 ceeding the calyx: nutlets 4, slender and pointed, nearly 2 mm. 

 long, greenish, prominently roughened, scar a narrow groove 

 extending all along the face, very little widened at base. 



The type is no. 3203, collected May 8, 1906, on the edge of 

 the sand hills about three miles west of Laws, Inyo county, Cal- 

 ifornia. Related to C. intermedia^ but differing in its narrower 

 flower, much longer calyx, and the muriculations of the nutlets 

 not "usually sharp-pointed." Submitted to Professor Greene, 

 who pronounced it undescribed. 



Cryijtanthe puniila 



Annual, i-i.5dm. high, nearly simple or branched through- 

 out, rather thickly clothed with long hispid hairs pustulate at 

 base: leaves linear, 2 cm. or less long, 2 mm. wide, sub-acute: 

 inflorescence 2 or 3 cm. long, at length rather lax, not leafy: 

 flowers white: calyx 3 mm, long, densely white hispid, the lobes 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute: corollas small, about 4 mm. long, 

 narrow: nutlets 4, barely i mm. long, pale and smooth. 



The type is no. 8403, collected June 12, 1906, near the sum- 

 mit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin county, California, in a moist open 

 place along the railroad. A relative of C. leiocarpa of the sand 

 hills along the coast, but differing in the lack of canescent pu- 

 bescence and the inflorescence not leafy. It probably resembles 

 C. hispidissima, but is a smaller plant with more spreading 



