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** Folia caulina integerrima, floralia seu bracteaj latiora Sfepius 

 incisa. Stamina 2. Semina obtusa : testa favoso-reticulata. 



CORDYLANTHUS MOLLIS : laxe subliirsuto-villosus ; caule I'amisque 

 diffii.sis ; fbliis caulinis linearibus brevibus ; bracteis oblongis inciso 

 2 - 3-dentatis vel integris corolla luteo-alba pauUo bi'evioribus ; spicis 

 nunc raino.'^is. — Mare Island, Bay of San Francisco, Charles Wright, 

 in N. Pacif". Expl. Expedition, November, 1855. No one else seems 

 to have met with it. It is a rather coarse, hairy plant, with leaves 

 hardly more than half an inch, the thick and either dense or lax spikes 

 2 or 3 inches long : bracts sometimes nearly an inch long. Seeds 

 moderately reniform, with a loose and thick cellular-reticulated integu- 

 ment, and no obvious rostellum, but the nucleus is slender-pointed. 



Orthocarpus pallescens. Gray in Sill. Jour. 34 (ser. 2.) p. 

 339. JEuchroma pallescens, Nutt. herb. ; but in the flowers examined 

 the calyx not equally 4-cleft, only 2-cleft, with the segments 2-cleft at 

 the apex or to the middle. To this, however, I would refer a plant 

 of Dr. Lyall's Oregon Boundary collection, received from Kew as 

 " Gastilleia 'pallida var. ?" No. 291 of Geyer's Coll., mentioned in the 

 enumeration under C septentrionalis ; also Dr. Torrey's No. 363, from 

 Donner Lake in the Sierra Nevada, No. 186G ('' tips of bracts and 

 corolla white") and 2838 of Prof. Brewer's collection, from high 

 sierras, and in Klamath Valley, Southern Oregon, by Dr. Cronkhite. 

 It is not easy to decide whether it should be ranked under Orthocarpus 

 or Castilleia. The root is clearly perennial, as in no other Orthocar- 

 pus, and the lower lip is not as much triplicate as in some species of 

 Castilleia ; but in length it very nearly or quite equals the short 

 galea, and its oblong lobes are about as long as the undivided portion. 

 The coat of the seed appears to be cellular-favose, in the manner of 

 Castilleia, but at maturity it forms an arilliforra covering not much 

 larger than the nucleus, which lies loose within it. The .species of 

 Orthocarpus most like it is 0. attenuatus. Gray, which appears to be 

 distinct from 0. hispidus by its white corolla with less trisaccate lower 

 lip and proportionally longer lobes. 



Pedicularis attollens: Faucidentes I^ongirostres ; caulibus erec- 

 tisgracilibus (semi- ad bipedalibus) apice cum spica elongata angusta 

 primum lanatis ; foliis (caulinis superioribus parvis) pinnatipartitis, 

 segmentis linearibus serratis incisisve ; calycis dentibus tubo subajqui- 

 longis ; corollie rubro-purpure^e galea cassidiformi e calyce breviter 

 exserta labio lato dimidio breviore, rostro abrupto super galeam elevato 



