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ing into a margined petiole : pedicels shorter than the flowe 

 corolla rather paler blue. — Ait. Hort. Rev. II. 361; Lodd. 

 Bot. Cab. t. 410. 



Range about the same as that of the preceding. 



'i 2. Erythranthe. Stems terete, stout and erect: herbage 

 viscid or slimy: leaves parallel veined, sessile: coroVas red. 



Species of the Pacific Coast — Erythranthe, Spach, with species 

 added. 



* Perennials, with simple stems and large flowers. 



M. cardinalis, Dougl. 



Villous, viscid and strong-scented, 2 — i feet high : leaves 

 ovate and ovate-lanceolate, erose-dentate : corolla scarlet, 

 the limb very irregular; lower lip closely reflexed; upper 

 erect with reflexed lobes: stamens exserted. — Gray, Syn. 

 PI. 276. 



In springy places and along streams, from the sea-level to 

 middle elevations of the mountains throughout the State, 

 extending into Oregon and Arizona. 



M. Lewisii, Pursh. 



More slender and nearly scentless, viscidulous-pubescent: 

 leaves oblong-ovate to lanceolate, denticulate: corolla rose- 

 red, more regular, the lobes merely spreading: stamens not 

 exserted. — Gray, 1. c. 



In swampy places at about 7,000 feet, in the Sierra Neva-. 

 da : also in Oregon, and eastward to the Rocky Mountains. 



* * Paniculately branching annual: corolla small. 



M. Parishii. 



Stout, 2 feet high, villous and very slimy: leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, erose-dentate, 1 — 2 inches long, the uppermost 

 clasping: pedicels shorter than the leaves: calyx-teeth trian- 

 gular, acute, nearly equal: corolla pale rose-red, only the 

 small, nearly regular limb exserted from the calyx: seed 

 small, oblong, with a lodse, wrinkled coat.— On the Mohave 

 slope of the San Bernardino Mountains, at Cox's Ranch, 



