in company with Dr. Gray in the Yosemite Valley, and on 
Mount Shasta. The var. Scowleri is the more exclusively 
northern form, but the dwarf small and broad-leaved type 
occurs as far north as any. It is a beautiful plant, the 
seeds of which were sent from the Cambridge (Massachu- 
setts) Botanical Gardens. It flowered in the month of 
May, and is perfectly hardy. 
Drsor. A herb, or almost an undershrub, one to two 
feet high, glabrous except the sparsely glandular-hairy tips 
of the young shoots and inflorescence; branches cylindric, 
terete, dark brown. Leaves one to two inches long, opposite, 
usually oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, sharply 
toothed or quite entire, the upper sessile, the lower narrowed 
‘into a short petiole; nerves obscure. Flowers two inches 
long, pale violet-blue, shortly pedicelled, axillary and 
running out into leafy racemes, or the lower paniculate ; 
pedicels a quarter of an inch long, one- to two-bracteate 
under the flower. Sepals subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
one-third of an inch long. Oorolla straight, between 
funnel- shaped and tubular, tube rather compressed, 
shallowly grooved or ribbed; mouth oblique, two-lipped, 
one and a half inch in diameter; lips undulate, upper erect 
two-lobed, lower spreading three-lobed, lobes rounded, 
sub-crenate. Stamens included, anthers clothed with long 
hairs, at length peltate; cells short, diverging, barren 
filaments with a terminal tuft of hair. Ovary linear-oblong, 
sparsely glandular towards the tip.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, bracts and style; 2, base of corolla and stamens; 3, anther; 
4, ovary :—all enlarged. 
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