

304 SCROPHULARIACE^:. Cordylanthus. 



Var. brevibracteatus, Gray, is glabrous up to the floral leaves, these hispid-cili- 

 ate with short bristles, also shorter and fewer, as are the flowers in the head. Bot. Calif, 

 i. 022. Soda spring, Kern Co., Ruthruck. 



C. pilosus, Gray. Paniculately branched, 2 to 4 feet high, soft-villous throughout, 

 somewhat viscid, no rigid hairs : leaves linear, all but the floral entire ; these commonly 

 3-parted and with emarginatc or callous-3-toothed tip : flowers few in the irregular termi- 

 nal clusters, or some lateral and solitary ; corolla yellowish or purplish, half inch or more 

 long. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 383, & Bot. Calif, i. 581. W. California, in open dry ground 

 from Santa Clara Co. northward. 



Var. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Lower, less pilose, more viscid or glandular : flowers 

 all scattered. Mendocino Co., Bolander. Also from Plumas Co. to Tuolumne Co. in the 

 foothills of the Sierra. 



C. tennis, Gray, 1. c. Effusely paniculate, a foot or two high, minutely cinereous-pubcr- 

 ulent, at summit sometimes more pubescent and glandular : leaves very narrowly linear, 

 entire : flowers scattered along the almost filiform branches, or some loosely clustered at 

 their summit: flowers as of the preceding or smaller and the upper sepal narrower. Dry 

 ground, California from the mountains of Mendocino Co. to Lake Tahoe, and adjacent 

 borders of Nevada. 



* -t Stamens 2: anthers 1 -celled : filaments nearly glabrous : posterior division of calyx only 

 2-nerved, 2-cleft at apex: seeds few, minutely favose. 



C. capitatus, Nutt. A foot or two high, paniculately much branched, soft-pubescent 

 and cinereous : leaves very narrowly linear, or those subtending the several-flowered ter- 

 minal head broader and 3-5-cleft : corolla purplish, half inch long : capsule 8-seeded. 

 Benth. 1. c. 507; Watson, Bot. King, 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. S. Idaho and N. 

 Nevada, Nuttall, Watson. 



3. HEMISTEOIA, Gray, I.e. Calyx monophyllous ; the anterior division 

 wanting : flowers strictly sessile in the axil of a clasping bract or leaf, ebracteolate : 

 corolla purplish or yellowish : no callous gland at the tip of leaves : herbage not 

 glandular : seeds (those of C. maritimus not seen mature) rather numerous, 

 scarious-appendaged ; the coat cellular-favose. 



* Stamens 2: anthers 2-cel led: filaments glabrous: seeds somewhat reniform. 

 C. mollis, Gray. Barely a foot high, rather stout, much branched, villous-hirsute : 

 leaves and bracts oblong-linear, obtuse, entire or the upper laciniatc-toothed or pinnatifid : 

 flowers in a thickish short spike : corolla three-fourths inch long. Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 384, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California, around Vallejo, 

 Wriijht, Greene. 



* * Stamens 4: anthers of longer stamens 2-celled, of the shorter with only the small lower cell: 

 filaments glabrous or nearlv so: leaves and even bracts all entire, pale or eaneseent: lower ones 

 linear; upper, and especially the looselv imbricated bracts, lanceolate or broader and concave or 

 somewhat conduplicate : inflorescence at first capitate, becoming short-spicate. 



C. maritimus, Nutt. 1. e. A span or two high, corymbosely branched, cinereous pubes- 

 cent: leaves glabratc, slightly fleshy: pairs of filaments very unequal. Gray, 1. c. - 

 California, in sandy salt marshes, from San Diego to San Francisco Bay. 



C. canescens, Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, corymbosely much branched, canescent 

 with soft and' short villous pubescence: uppermost leaves and bracts from oblong- to 

 ovate-lanceolate : smaller filaments sometimes obscurely hairy. Saline soil, Sierra Nevada, 

 on the eastern border of California to Salt Lake, Utah. 



Var. Parryi. A slender form, with narrower bracts and sparser flowers : smaller 

 filaments with some scattered hairs. C. Parry!, Watson in Am. Naturalist, ix. 346. 

 S. W. Utah, Parry, Palmer. 



% %. jit Stamens 4: anthers all 2-eelled: filaments villous: leaves and bracts mostly 3-5-parted 

 into linear-filiform divisions : habit and inflorescence of Ai/i-misti-i/in. 



C. Kingii, Watson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid-pubescent or villous : 

 leaves 1 or 2 inches long: flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the summit 

 of the slender branchlets : calyx 4-6-nerved : corolla less than an inch long, purplish. - 

 Bot. Kinir, 2:53, t. 22. W. Nevada, Watson. S. Utah, Parry, Siler. S. W. Colorado, 

 Brandeyee. 



