86 CAMPANULACEAE 
8. Nemacladus intérior (Munz) G. T. ahi oS Nemacladus. Fig. 5105. 
Nemacladus rigidus var. interior Munz, “i Journ. Bot. 11: 243. 
Nemacladus rubescens var. interior McV — iad Eo 22: rey 1939. 
Nemacladus interior G. T. Robbins, Rear 146. 
Plants (7)15-25 cm. or more high, oe stems and branches stiffly ascending, zigzag, brownish 
or purplish, rather dull. Basal ret 1-2 cm. long, oblanceolate to elliptic, sometimes with a 
distinct petiole, the margins irregularly serrate ; racemes strongly zigzag ; pedicels 7-13 mm long, 
slender, ascending, straight except at the extreme tip beneath the erect owers; bracts 1- 3 mm 
long, linear or lanceolate, scarcely or not at all enfolding the pedicel; corolla 2. 5-5 m 
_5 es very short, the lobes spreading, eciliate ; calyx-tube turbinate or obconic in fruit a 
2- mm. long, roun we = obscurely pointed at apex; seeds ellipsoid, with undulate or zigzag 
ridges and well-defined p 
Dry, gravelly or ig ee Arid Transition Zone; along the western face of the Sierra Nevada from 
oa ga nty to Kern County, California. Type locality: “North Fork, Peckinpah, Fresno Co. [Madera].” 
ay—jJuly 
‘i Beseseionwe glanduliferus Jepson. Glandular Nemacladus. Fig. 5106. 
N glandulif. Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif. 975. 1925. 
7 20 cm. high, the — several to Src from the base, with rather stiff i ascending 
ieee or sometimes loose flexuous, sihes t below or sometimes glabrous nearly so 
brownish or purplish at least ‘clove: Basal Saal peatis 0.5-1.5 mm. long, oblan ceolat or rarely 
elliptic. obtuse at apex, and narrowed to a broadly winged base, often toothed or pinnatifid, gree 
to purplish brown, pubescent near the base on the margins and upper side; paiig nk sender, 
spreading horizontally at base and usually curved he vee near the apex; bracts 2-5 mm. long, 
linear to lanceolate, spreading; corolla about 2 mm with acute spreading lobes, the tube 
very short; filame ent-tube piebeots, curved at tip; spe hae at linear to narrowly triangular, the 
tube yet pheric in in fruit, a road as long; capsule about al-infrion acute at apex; 
seeds varying m cylindric a ahae ene to narrowly ellipsoidal, with 6-8 ay pr-cone 
rilote separated re sharply impressed lines and divided by fine transverse lines into 15-20 n 
cross-r 
Dry desert slopes, ae er Sonoran Zone; southern Mojave Desert and the Colorado Desert (mainly in 
western coinage ns) from Sheep Hole Mountains, San Rowerdice County, southward to northern Lower Cali- 
fornia. ype locality: ‘““Wagon Wash, near Sentenac Canon,’’ Colorado Desert, San Diego County, Cali- 
ober _—. May 
acladus pakauneargs var. orientalis McVaugh, Amer. Midl. Nat. 22: 540.1939. Very similar 
to oe “typical haat — ge stiffly spreading-ascen acting, ie or very slightly curved upward at tip; 
calyx-lobes as compared with mostly 1.5-2. long in the typical species. Mojave 
Desert poems At lave ee rec Angeles oe south ed gh ‘the | Colorad do Desert to northern Lower Cali- 
fornia_and east to southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, western Arizona, and Sonora. Type locality: shore of 
Lake Mead near Hoover Dam, Clark Cocnty. ‘Revs da. 
10. Nemacladus montanus Greene. Mountain Nemacladus. Fig. 5107. 
Nemacladus montanus ole yon Calif. Acad. 1: 197. : ag 
Nemacladus ramosissimus var. montanus A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. = Pe 21: 393. 1886. 
okactobar rigidus var. g Satta Munz, Amer. y aes ih 11: 243. 
Plants 8-18 cm. high, the stems erect, few from the Boe > ae forked above with 
ascending ake: glabrous or nearly so, dull ss Pi, brownish o rplish. Leaves 5-18 
long, . broa 
Det broad ad ole, 
ar abrous or the hs and very sparsely puberule - eos els 10-15 mm. foie strongly ascending, 
glabro alf-i 
blunt a seeds elli hid, itl 10-12 1 Oe longitudinal dees sepawated ay: Pats Eapeesoed 
lonituinal ca Y heratige arked by about 30 fine cross-ridges. 
Usuall ne outcrops, Upper Sonoran and Arid Transition Zones; Inner Coast Ranges, Lake 
and Napa "Charticn. California, Type locality: Allen’s Springs, Lake County. May—July. 
11. Nemacladus rigidus Curran. Rigid Nemacladus. Fig. 5108. 
Nemacladus rigidus Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1: 154. 1885. 
Plants 4-9 cm. high, the stems saints or is from the dogs at gg glabrous or sparsely 
pubescent, the be cher often decumbent. s 7-9 mm. lon ey wide, elliptic, narrowed 
to a broad base, flowering from nie oe mee ai stems, pee as a patios 8-11 mm. long, 
stiff and comparatively short, soresdiie: horizontally or widely seeing: a 2- uy long, 
= from the base of pedicel, elliptic, usually about one-half as wide as our ; corolla 1-1. 
m. long, © elite or purplish, with short pide page's -1.6 mm. long, the anthers with 
mienihe reflexed appease capsule long, 2-2.5 mm. broad, about cage a 
hypanthium, — me t base; seeds prnebery with *8 10 pears ee ridges, with narrow 
between the r a be — 
d ae iti Z - theastern egon adjacent Cali- 
son Sand isis, oper Sogoran Tomesier evade. a He liciger Grade near Virginia City, 
Storey County. May-July. 
