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atus, Gray, 1. c. Probably here, rather than under 3L gut- 

 tatus, belongs M. lyratus, Benth. 



Common on hillsides and near springs, California to 

 Washington Territory. A winter annual, flowering in April. 

 Distinguishable from the preceding by the different propor- 

 tions of the corolla, as well as by the always annual root. 

 Extremely variable in point of size, and also in the calyx 

 which is sometimes very gibbous, sometimes but slightly 

 so. Specimens from Lake County by Mrs. Curran have the 

 body very regularly campanulate and nearly truncate at the 

 wide orifice, the margin being nearer repand than toothed; 

 but this form will perhaps be a species. 



M, nasutus. 



Hirsute-puberulent or nearly glabrous: stem \ — 2 feet 

 high, stout, branching from the base, quadrangular and dis- 

 tinctly winged, flowering from the base: leaves mostly sub- 

 radical, ovate- to reniform -cordate, acute, feather-veined and 

 coarsely toothed or lobed, purple beueath, the lowest on 

 broad petioles an inch loug; the floral reduced to short 

 bracts: peduncles ascending, short, hardly exceeding the 

 mature calyx: calyx broadly campanulate, in fruit often | 

 inch long and I inch broad ; teeth acute, very unequal : the 

 upper one thrice the length of the others; the lower pair, in 

 maturity, bent upwards, lying at right angles across, and 

 closely enfolding the other three : corolla very small for the 

 size of the plant, h inch long, little surpassing the ample 

 calyx, deep yellow, with a large purple blotch on the lower 

 lip. 



Our earliest specimens were collected in 1877, in Sonoma 

 Counts, Cal. at Knight's Valley and Skaggs' Springs, by 

 Mr. Henry Edwards. 



Mrs. R. M. Austin sent it from Butte County in 1883; 

 while Mrs. Curran obtained fine specimens last year in lo- 

 calities as far apart as Lake and Kern counties. It is an 

 exceedingly well marked, apparently until now undescribed 

 species. Nevertheless a plant so far from rare will doubt- 



