King's Flax

Cathartolinum kingii (S. Wats.) Small
Linum Kingii S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 49. 1871.
Perennial with a woody base, glabrous, glaucous, the stems or branches more or less tufted, 0.5-3 dm. tall, the flowering branches rather slender; leaves alternate, numerous, rather spreading, quite approximate on the lower part of the flowering branches, more distant above ; blades thick, linear-spatulate below to linear above, mainly 1-2 cm. long, or sometimes shorter, entire ; bracts entire ; flowers borne in fastigiate corymb-like cymes ; outer sepals ovate, about 4 mm. long at maturity, sparingly glandular-toothed, acuminate ; inner sepals shorter and broader than the outer, closely glandular-toothed, abruptly shortpointed ; petals yellow; capsules ovoid, 4 mm. long; seeds nearly 3 mm. long.
Type locality : Uintah Mountains, Utah. Distribution : Wyoming and Utah.

Cathartolinum sedoides (Porter) Small
Linum Kingii sedoides Porter, Rep. TJ. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 4 : 474. 1871. Linum Kingii pineiorum Jones. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. S : 628. 1895.
Perennial and similar to L. Kingii in habit, but smaller and more compact, the stems or branches mostly less than 1 dm. long ; leaves verv numerous, approximate on the flowering branches, erect or ascending and more or less imbricated, the blades very thick, clavate on the lower part of the stems, short-linear above, mainly 3-9 mm. long, entire; bracts entire; flowers borne in fastigiate raceme-like cymes ; outer sepals ovate, becoming about 4 mm. long, with few glandular teeth, obtuse or acute; inner sepals shorter and broader than the outer, closely glandular-toothed, obtuse or merely acute ; petals yellow ; capsules ovoid, 3 mm. long; seeds about 2 mm. long.
Type locality : Uintah Mountains, Utah. Distribution : Utah.