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12. Nemacladus capillaris rieagh Common Nemacladus. Fig. 5109, 
Nemacladus capillaris sagen Bull. Calif, pom, i: 885. 
Nemacladus rigidus var. capillaris Munz, Am mele oi ‘ies 11: 244. 1924, 
Plants 7-18 cm. high, the stems i eats or minutely steag g brownish or purplish, the 
branches usually several times forked, rather stiffly ascending, the axis of the raceme more or 
less zigzag especially in fruit. Basal leaves 5-15 m m. long, coat a ate, narrowed abruptly at 
base to a short petiole, entire or ahariane’ crenate, usually a Aha pedic els 8-12 mm. long, 
spreading or ascending, capillary a pe ya steal aight, the flower then usually horizontal and no 
strongly upturned, glabrous; brac long, perecely eS corolla about 1 mm. long, 
white, lobed almost to the base; lament ge 0.8-1.2 mm. long; calyx-tube turbinate in flower 
and in fruit, the lobes 0.6-1.2 mm. long, ay i or slaccane’ riangular capsule 1. mm. long, 
rounded at apex, about half- inferior ; seeds few, broadly ellipsoid, wit th 8-10 narrow ‘longitudinal 
ridges oo with rows o wey tas 
Dry velly slopes usually of igneous formations, mainly Arid Transition Zone; southern Oregon in 
Jackson Baty ‘Klamath Counties Pion cone in the Marth roe Ranges and Sierra Nevada to the no cy yay 
parts of the Mojave Desert, California. Type locality: “Mohave Desert.’’ Collected by Curran. June—Aug. 
2. PARISHELLA A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 7: 94. 1882. 
Low, diffuse, annual plants with the leaves and flowers in subcapitate tufts at the base 
of the Slant ¥ nd at the ends of the branches. Calyx-tube campanulate, shorter than the 
spatulate lobes. Corolla rotate, almost equally 5-parted. Stamens with minute a 
inferior part of ovary and capsule into 2 cells, the lid of the capsule without septum at 
maturity. Seeds pitted. [Name in honor of S. B. and W. F. Parish, botanical saliciocs 
in southern California. ] 
f the Mojave Desert. 
5106. Nemacladus — 5108. Nemacladus rigidus 
5107. Nemacladus m 5109. Nemacladus capillaris 
