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& <A. lycopsoides, Lehm. Stiff bristles with pimple-like base: leaf margins often 
undulate: often branching: very variable. 
6. KRYNITZEIA, Fischer & Meyer. 
§ 1. Nutlets ovoid, smooth, shining, a ridge down thé back, » groove down the inner 
side, attached to the gynobase one quarter the length........-.-+eeseecseeseers 1 
§ 2. Nutlets ovoid, somewhat rugose, a ridge down the inner side, fixed by the base of 
the inner angle. Entire plant light green. 
* Mostly diffuse: lower leaves often opposite: corolla 1 or 2 lines broad.........+++++ 2,3 
* © Flowers numerous: limb of corolla nearly rotate, $ to 5 lines broad: yellow crests in the 
throat spicuous: Lower lL mostly opposite (except in No. 6)......--++++ 4,5,6 
§ 3. Nutlets never rugose; inner angle furrowed from less than half to all the way; back 
convex; side angles mostly obtuse, never margiued: calyx in fruit erect or closed: 
corolla small, throat naked or the crests not exserted: numerous flowers sessile in 
scorpioid spikes. 
* Fruiting calyz often falling with the enclosed nutlets, these smooth, shining, acute: sepals 
narrow, hispid, slender. 
Nutlets solitary, rarely 2, acuminate, fixed below the middle................- 7, 8,9 
Nutlets usually all maturing scarcely a line long....... Svigiessiseeye kee eee ete 10, 11 
Nutlets unequal, one much larger than the others............- 0 cece eee erence eee 12 
Nutlets 3-angled-ovoid, papillose, sharply muricate or scabrous, attached nearly or quite. 
up to the apex: usually erect and hispid; spikes bractless: calyx pungent-bristly. 
Calyx very villous-hispid, in fruit 3-5 lines long, mid-rib strong..........-22..---05 1Z 
Calyx 3 lines long or less; bristles pungent, whitish or yellowish. 
In fruit double the length of the nutlets not connivent...............008 14, 15 
In fruit 1 or 2 lines long, more or less connivent over the angular nutlets..16, 17,18 
°° Fruiting calyx deciduous above a persistent basal cup: nutlets ovate-deltoid, $-angled, 
usually very smooth, groove forked. 
Much branched, with flowers almost from base, hispid.............---sececeeccces 19 
1, K. lithocarya, Greene. Corolla not surpassing the rusty calyx: spike simple. 
2. K. Californica, Gr. Leaves small, narrow: flowering from near the base. 
Var. subgilochidiata, Gr. Succulent: nutlets minute-bristly with barbed hairs, 
trachycarpa, Gr. More lower leaves opposite: nutlets broader, granulate, 
Chorisiana, Gr. Some pedicels 2 to 12 lines long: leaves large. 
Scouleri, Gr. Slender: spikes often branching mostly bractless, 
mollis, Gr. Perennial stems creeping, soft-hairy. Wet borders of ponds. 
sparsiflora, Greene. Sepals with stiff hooked bristles: nutlet flattened, 
oxycarya, Gr. Strigulose: leaves linear: calyx in fruit deflexed-bristly at base 
microstachys, Greene. Smaller, hispidulous: calyx bristles not deflexed, 
K. leiocarpa, F. & M. Nutlets sttached for nearly the whole length, 
K Torreyana, Gr. Nutlets attached half way up, groove forked, 
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