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being preoccupied in the genus Cryptantha, must replace muri- 

 culata DC. 



Lehman's genus has been commonly spelled Cryptanthe ever 

 since Greene resurrected it. The first valid publication, however, 

 seems to have been by Fischer and Meyer in Sem. Hort. Petrop. 

 35. 1836, and there at least the name is Cryptantha. 



Cryptantha Torreyana (Gray) Greene var. grandiflora 

 (Rydb.), n. comb.— C. grandiflora Rydb. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 

 36:679. 1909.— Because of the conspicuous corolla (5-6 mm. 

 wide) this may well deserve varietal rank. The leaves are often, 

 though not always, broader than those of the species. 



Oreocarya salmonensis, n. sp. — Pallid throughout; duration 

 unknown: stems solitary or few, apparently not tufted, simple, 

 1. 5-2 dm. high, distinctly angled, very leafy, white-hispid, and 

 finely strigose with reflexed hairs: leaves (basal unknown) large 

 for the genus, 3-8 cm. long, scarcely reduced below the inflores- 

 cence, oblanceolate or broadly spatulate, obtuse, the lower strongly 

 1 -nerved, hispid-cilia te, petiolar portion about as long as the 

 sparsely pustulate-hispid and finely and intricately pubescent 

 blade: inflorescence thyrsoid-glomerate, dense, even in fruit: 

 calyx lobes pubescent like the leaves, but not pustulate, linear- 

 lanceolate, 5-7 mm. long in fruit: corolla white, the tube shorter 

 than the calyx: anthers oblong: nutlets fully 3 mm. long, long- 

 ovate, obtuse, acutely margined, smooth and shining, gray with 

 a lighter indistinct keel on the back; scar linear, nearly as long 

 as the nutlet, forked at the very base. 



Unique among the short corolla species of the Northwest, being the only 

 one with smooth nutlets. Equally distinct in leaf and inflorescence from the 

 0. multicaulis group of the South and from 0. leucophea. The type is by 

 Charles L. Kirkley, "prairies, in loose soil," Salmon, Idaho, June 1896. 



Oreocarya cilio-hirsuta Nels. and Macbr. Bot. Gaz. 55 : 

 378. 1913 is 0. spiculijera Piper, Contrib. Nat. Herb. 11 :48i. 1906. 

 The species is very well marked by its usually numerous stems and 

 striking pubescence. 



Nicotiana Torreyana, n. n. — N. attenuata Torr. in Wats. Bot. 

 KingExped. 276. 1871; not N. attenuata Steudel, Norn. ed. 1. 554- 

 1821. 



