8&4 CAMPANULACEAE 
almost as wide, rounded above, about half-adnate to the calyx-tube ; seeds broadly ee gies 
10-12 rows of Sis pits alternating with as many undulating or zigzag longitudinal lin 
Dry, sandy velly soils, Sonoran Zones; Inner Coast Ranges from Merced County south to Te 
Gane "Cahiers, ae locality : “Alcalde, Fresno County, California.’’ April-June. 
4. Nemacladus secundiflorus G. T. Robbins. Secund Nemacladus. Fig. 5101. 
Nemacladus secundifiorus G. T. Robbins, Aliso 4: 142. 1958. 
nts about 2.5-10 cm. high, the stems 5 age or somewhat branched, glabrous, essentially 
straight purplish brown. Basal leaves as in N. gracilis; racemes mostly secund, not conspicu- 
ously zigzag; pedicels about 9-12 mm. long, finely e. horizontally fe and more o 
less doubles -curved, the subte oberien ae et ut 2 mm. long, basally clasping the pedicels ; corolla 
about 3 mm. long, with spreading lobes, the Aap usu aie: surpassing the calyx-lobes; stamens 
about 4 mm. ang the ie rd curved pric capsule and seeds (some Saonecaine globose) 
as in N. gracilis. 
In sand and gravel, dry streambeds or slopes, pare Sonoran Zone; Inner Coast Ranges in southern 
San Bente County to San Luis Obispo County, Calif ornia, and also the ramen ec Bae Kern ra 
Type locality: east fork ra Huerhuero Creek, 3 miles north of Creston, San Luis Obispo County. April-Jun 
5. Nemacladus pinnatifidus Greene. Comb-leaved Nemacladus. Fig. 5102. 
oe TO AN Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 197. 1885. 
Nem mosissimus var. pinnatifidus A. Pai Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 21: 393. 1886. 
ori 6-15 or ee 20 cm. high, the stems several from the base, intricately branched, with 
the Seal Linge and baanchlets stronaly erect or asc cending, entirely or 2 ey glabrous, 
greenish or more commonly brownish or purplish. Basal leaves 1.5-4 cm. long, oblanceolate, 
rounded to acutish ge po Bet pin nayifid with toothed | Fri on entire, or some ics deeply 
toothed ; pedice 1 m. long in rut capillary, ascending, curved upward, sually bent above 
e middle, owers an fn erect; bracts elliptic to fae 2 eat h 
campanulate in flower, ellipsoid S ei easel in’fruit; corolla 1.5-2 mm. long, white or tinged 
with rose-purple; filament-tube g, glabroys; aan 3-4 mm. high, acutely os 
at apex; seeds ellipsoid, = $10 oie rows of 8-10 broad rounded pits each, the r 
separated by narrow ridge 
Dry eo — or ape ~ Sonoran Zones; coastal segien of southern California from 
vicinity of L geles and ee Ber ardino south to northern Lower California. Type locality: ‘All aeive 
ay, Lower Califor ” > pl 
6. Nemacladus ramosissimus Nutt. Nuttall’s Nemacladus. Fig. 5103. 
Nemacladus ramosissimus Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 254, 1843. 
Nemacladus tenuissimus Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 198. 1885. 
Plants 5-20 cm. high, intricately branched, the “tir and branches ascending and, including 
he mo : or eae secund inflorescence, straight and not at all zigzag, glabrous throughout | or 
pubescent below, greenish pestis brownish purple t toward the hae Basal leaves as gan ; 
oblanceolate, narrowed to nged etinie at base, toothed o r pinna atifid, glabrous or pode sely 
pilose especially on the pom cae rd the base; diets very finely capillary, Screial ing nearly 
horizontally but curved upward near the apex, the flowers erect; calyx campanulate in 
broadly conic in pole corolla 1.5-2.5 mm. long; filament-tu be 1. m. rai smooth a 
glabrous, usually curved pex; capsule 1.6-2.5 mm. high, broad and —— at apex; seeds 
about 0.5 mm. in almost nei with 10 rows ae usually 6 rounded p 
flower, 
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Dry, sandy or gravelly soil, Sonoran Zones; Tassajara Hot Springs, wr 8 eine California, to 
northern Lowis a also inland in western Inyo and in San Bernardino Counties. Type locality: 
“San Diego.” May—Jul 
7. Nemacladus rubéscens Greene. Desert Nemacladus. Fig. 5104. 
sion ane acca oeed — Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 197. 1885. 
Parish, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 2: 28. 1903 
Nemacladus ibis var. rubescens Munz, Amer, Journ. Bot. 11: 245. 1924. 
Plants 5-20 cm. hi gh, repeatedly forked and becoming diffuse and bushy in well-developed 
plants, glabrous or thes ms sparsely paggdonse paw, usually shiny gray-green. 1 leaves 
8-15 mm. long, usually tion ee Bg unded at apex, mostly entire, glabrous or sparsely 
her c ly esp ag th aoa pedice mm. long, illary, 
slightly a wage straight or somewhat curved upward at the tip; calyx broadly rounded in 
ower, mostly hemispheric in fruit; corolla with a short tube and sp ding lobes, yellow, with 
p rown margins on the | obe: , these = least Pose upper ciliate on the i “3 lament- 
tube st traight or slightly curved above, glabrous and smooth, conspicuously exserted ; seeds broadly 
ellipsoid, with 8-10 undulate or zigzag ice tseidiecl gee and poorly defined pits Sitwesn the 
ridges 
Sev sandy or gravelly soils, Sonoran Zones; from In a and Kern Counties, California, southwestern 
Nevada, and adj — Arizona south through “  Meieve and Colorado Deserts to northern Lower California. 
Type eee California. 
se ake <henli ar. ténuis ivi Gee Mid!. Nat. 22: 536. 1939. Lower part of ste 
silvery poy and cage ad i. the typical species; leaves oblanceolate, ara yi gh toothed; [sey very finely 
capillary. Dry sandy soils, Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave Desert, California, sout thern nyo County  south- 
wee and most common in the Colorado <p - least as far south as al Valley, San Diego County. 
Type alee Indio Mountain, Riverside Coun 
