. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 26 BniGHAM Young Univehsitv Science Bulletin 21. Cryptantha torreyana (Gray) Greene, Pit- tonia 1:118. 1887. Type: Yosemite Valley, Torrey 337. Krynitzkia torreyaiui A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20:271. 1885. Krynitzkia torreyaiui var. calycosa Gray, loc. cit. Cnjptantha torreyana var. calycosa Greene, Pittonia 1:119. 1887. Cryptantha calycosa Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1:3,31. 1900. Cryptantha affinis var. flexuosa Nels. Bot. Gaz. 30:195. 1900. Cryptantha flexuosa Nels. New Man. Bot. Cent. Rocky Mts. 416. 1909. Cryptantha tor
. Brigham Young University science bulletin. Biology -- Periodicals. 26 BniGHAM Young Univehsitv Science Bulletin 21. Cryptantha torreyana (Gray) Greene, Pit- tonia 1:118. 1887. Type: Yosemite Valley, Torrey 337. Krynitzkia torreyaiui A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20:271. 1885. Krynitzkia torreyaiui var. calycosa Gray, loc. cit. Cnjptantha torreyana var. calycosa Greene, Pittonia 1:119. 1887. Cryptantha calycosa Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1:3,31. 1900. Cryptantha affinis var. flexuosa Nels. Bot. Gaz. 30:195. 1900. Cryptantha flexuosa Nels. New Man. Bot. Cent. Rocky Mts. 416. 1909. Cryptantha torreyana var. calistogae Johnst. Contr. Gray Herb. 74:80. 1925. Stems erect, 1-4 dm high, solitary or several with erect or more often spreading branches, finely strigose and sparsely hirsutulous; leaves oblanceolate to linear, strict or ascending, 2-5 (7) cm long, 3-6 (8) mm wide, obtuse or round- ed, hispid, inconspicuously pustulate if at all so; spikes commonly geminate, bractless, 4-8 (15) cm long, more or less projected from the leafy mass of the plant, very elongate and loosely flowered or congested and glomerate; corolla in- conspicuous, about 1 mm broad; fruiting calyx ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2-7 mm long, ascending, asymmetrical, base rounded or broadly conic; pedicels about mm long; mature calyx-lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, connivent above with tips usually spreading, midrib slightly thick- ened and hispid-hirsute, margins hispid-strigose; nutlets 4, occasionallv 1 or more aborted, usually broadly ovate, () mm long, mm broad, smooth and polished, usually mottled, rarely finely granulate, back low and convex, sides rounded or obtuse, groove broadly forked below and closed throughout; gynobase about li height of nutlets, about 1 mm tall; style reaching to % height of nutlets or rarely even to their tips. Open slopes or sometimes growing in partial shade, mainly transition zones. Extreme western Wyoming and northern Utah to northern Cali- fo
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