Orthocarpus. SCROPIIULARIACE^. 301 



cuneatc-dilated, shorter than the flowers, the divergent lobes broadly lanceolate : corolla 

 rose-purple, half inch long ; tube moderately longer than the calyx : galea with minute 

 inflexed tip. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. Dry ground, Brit. Columbia to Oregon and northern 

 portion of Sierra Nevada, California. 



O. luteus, Nutt. Pubescent and hirsute, sometimes viscid : stem strict, a span to a foot 

 high : leaves from linear to lanceolate, occasionally 3-cleft : bracts of the dense spike 

 broader or with more dilated base, completely herbaceous, mostly 3-cleft, about equalling 

 the flowers : corolla golden yellow, less than half inch long, twice or thrice the length of 

 the calyx; tip of galea obtuse and straight. Gen. ii. 57. 0. strict us, Benth. 1. c. ; Hook. 

 Fl. ii. 104, t. 172. Plains, &c., N. Minnesota and Saskatchewan to Colorado, eastern 

 borders of California, and Brit. Columbia. 



O. Tolmiei, Hook. & Am. Puberulent, a span or two high, loosely branched : leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate-linear, chiefly entire : bracts of the small and short spikes little 

 dilated, often 3-cleft, the upper shorter than the flowers: corolla bright yellow, half inch 

 long, 8 or 4 times longer than the calyx ; minute tip of galea inflexed. Bot. Beech. 379 ; 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 536; Watson, Bot. King, 230. Utah, in the Wahsatch Mountains, 

 to S. Idaho. 



-t~ Spike looser, few-flowered: seeds with loose reticulated coat. 



O. purpureo-albus, Gray. Minutely pubescent, somewhat viscid, simple or branched, 

 a span or two high: leaves entire or mostly 3-cleft, filiform: bracts similar or somewhat 

 dilated at base : corolla three-fourths inch long, purple and often partly white, with tube 

 twice or thrice the length of the calyx ; tip of galea mueroniform, inflexed. Watson, Bot. 

 King, 458; Bot. Calif. 1. c. New Mexico and S. Utah, Woodhouse, Newberry, Parry, 

 Mrs. Thompson. 



3. TUIPIIYSARIA, Benth. Corolla with conspicuously trisaccate lip very 

 much larger than the slender straight galea ; its teeth minute or small ; tube fili- 

 form or slender : stigma capitate, sometimes 2-lobed : bracts all herbaceous and 

 similar to the leaves (or with somewhat colored tips in two species) : root annual. 

 Triphysaria, Fisch. & Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petrop. ii. 52. 



# Anthers l-celled: lip of corolla saccately 3-lobeil from the end: seed-coat close, conformed to the 

 nucleus, apiculate at one or both ends. 



H Stamens early escaping from their enclosure in the less involute oblong-lanceolate galea. 



O. pusillus, Benth. Small and weak or diffuse, branched from the base, a span or less 

 high, somewhat pubescent: leaves once or twice pinnatifid and bracts 3-5-parted into fili- 

 form or setaceous divisions : flowers scattered, small and inconspicuous, shorter than the 

 bracts: corolla purplish, 2 or 3 lines long; tube not surpassing the calyx; lip moderately 

 3-lobed, beardless: capsule globose. Scroph. Ind. 12, & DC. I.e.; Gray, Bot. Calif, 

 i. 578. Low ground, San Francisco Bay to Oregon. 



O. fl.oribund.US, Benth. 1. c. Erect, a span or more high, branched above, almost 

 glabrous : upper part of leaves pinnately parted into linear-filiform divisions, some again 

 cleft : bracts of the mostly dense many-flowered spike 3-5-cleft and dilated at base ; upper 

 ones not surpassing the calyx: corolla white or cream-color, half inch long; tube twice 

 the length of calyx ; lip with 3 divergent oval sacs, 2 hairy lines within ; the teeth lanceo- 

 late, erect, scarious. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. CMoropyron palustre, Behr in Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. i. 02, 0(3 ? Hillsides', California, around San Francisco Bay, &c. 



4 -1 Stamens more strictly enclosed in the acute involute-subulate galea: lip of 3 obovate or 

 globular-inflated sacs, not more than a quarter of the length of the filiform and mostly densely 

 pubescent tube, the two folds separating the sacs within villous-bearded : flowers nuiii'Toiis in a 

 rather dense spike: upper bracts not exceeding the calyx; lower and the leaves pinnately parted 

 above the broader entire base into setaceous or lililbrm divisions. 



O. eriantllUS, Benth. 1. c. Erect, a span or more high, fastigiately much branched, 

 pubescent : corolla sulphur-color, with slightly falcate galea brown-purple : tube to 8 

 lines long, thrice the length of the calyx. Low grounds, coast of California, from Mon- 

 terey northward. 



Var. roseus, Gray, 1. c. Corolla rose-colored, or probably cream-colored changing 

 to rose-purple: the tube shorter. Triphysaria versicolor, Fisch. & Meyer, I.e.? Sandy 

 fields, Noj-o, Mendocino Co., Bolandcr, &c. 



