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out, only the flowers evidently viscid. Leaves 1-2 cm. long, 2-7 mm. wide, linear-elliptic to 

 elliptic-ovate, mostly entire, firm, crowded ; panicle broad, leafy ; calyx 3-6 mm. high, the 

 lobes ovate to rotund, obtuse or cuspidate-acute; corolla yellow tinged with brownish red, 

 16-20 mm. long, about 8-10 mm. broad at throat, the throat abruptly much dilated, the broad 

 upper lip arching, the lower reflexed ; staminode densely bearded with long yellow hairs, exserted. 

 Chaparral slopes. Upper Sonoran Zone; interior coastal drainat^e, San Bernardino County to San Diego 

 County, California, south to Lower California. Type locality: California. April-May. 



Penstemon antirrhinoides subsp. microphi^llus (A. Gray) Keck. {Penstemon microphyllus A. Gray, 

 Pacif. R. Rep. 4: 119. 1857; P. Plummerae Abranis, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 445. 1906; P. antirrhinoides var. 

 microphyllus Munz & ]tn. Bull. Torrey Club 49 : 43. 1922.) Herbage yellowish gray-green, canescent through- 

 out, the twigs cinereous; calyx 5.5-8 or 10 mm. high, canescent and viscid, the lobes lance-oblong, acuminate. 

 Desert ranges, Lower Sonoran Zone; Colorado Desert and southern and eastern Mojave Desert, California, to 

 Arizona and northern Lower California. Type locality: "On Williams' Fork of the Colorado." April-June. 



89. Penstemon cordifolius Benth. Heart-leaved Penstemon. Fig. 4726. 



Penstemon cordifolius Benth. Scroph. Indicae 7. 1835. 



Scandent shrub 1-3 m. high, the dark green herbage glabrous to puberulent, more densely 

 hairy and moderately glandular within the inflorescence. Leaves 2-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, 

 lance-ovate to cordate, remotely serrulate to sharply dentate, shiny, strongly veined ; panicle 

 pyramidal, compact, subsecund, drooping, hence the flowers resupinate and the peduncles often 

 reflexed, leafy; calyx 7-10 mm. high; corolla dull scarlet, 30-40 mm. long, 5-7 mm. wide pressed, 

 tubular, the upper lip galeate and the lower widely spreading; staminode densely bearded with 

 long yellow-brown hairs, well included. » = 8. 



Chaparral slopes, Upper Sonoran Zone; coastal mountains of southern California from San Luis Obispo 

 County to the Mexican border. Type locality: "New California." May-July. 



90. Penstemon corymbosus Benth. Redwood Penstemon. Fig. 4727. 



Penstemon corymbosus Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 593. 1846. 



Penstemon intonsus Heller, Muhlenbergia 1 : 44. 1904. 



Penstemon corymbosus var. pubcrulentus Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 909. 1925. 



Shrub 3-5 or more dm. high, the dark green herbage glabrous to canescent, the inflorescence 

 densely glandular-pubescent. Leaves 1.5-4 cm. long, 6-17 mm. wide, narrowly to broadly 

 elliptic, entire to remotely serrate, coriaceous, the margin narrowly revolute; corymb terminal, 

 often many-flowered ; calyx 6-10 mm. high, the lobes linear-lanceolate to lance-ovate ; corolla 

 brick red, 25-35 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide pressed, narrowly tubular, the upper lip galeate, the 

 lower spreading ; staminode densely yellow-bearded, well included, n = 8. 



Rocky slopes and cliffs, Transition Zones; Coast Ranges of California from Del Norte County to Monterey 

 County, and Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta County to Sutter County. Type locality: probably in the 

 Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County. June-Oct. 



91. Penstemon ternatus Torr. Blue-stemmed Penstemon. Fig. 4728. 



Penstemon ternatus Torr. ex A. Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. US. 1859. 



Straggly shrub 5-15 dm. high, the wand-like glaucous stems erect or sometimes scandent, 

 the herbage glabrous throughout. Leaves in whorls of 3, or the lowermost opposite, 2-5 cm. 

 long, 2-9 mm. wide, linear-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, tapering to base and apex, remotely 

 serrate-dentate, thickish, often folded along the midrib ; panicle elongated, many-flowered ; calyx 

 3-5 mm. high, the lobes lance-ovate, acuminate ; corolla scarlet, 23-30 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide 

 pressed, narrowly tubular, glandular-puberulent, the upper lip galeate, the lower spreading; 

 staminode densely yellow-bearded, well included, n = 8. 



Chaparral slopes, LIpper Sonoran and Transition Zones; San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, 

 southern California, to San Diego County and Lower California. Type locality: mountains east of San Diego. 

 June-April. 



Penstemon ternatus subsp. septentrionalis (Munz & Jtn.) Keck, Madroiio 3:216. 1936. (Penstemon 

 ternatus var. septentrionalis Munz & Jtn. Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 23: 28. 1924.) Calyces and pedicels glandular- 

 pubescent. Inland drainages in adjacent portions of Kern, Ventura, and Los Angeles Counties, California. Type 

 locality: Oakgrove Canyon, Liebre Mountains. 



10. SCROPHULArIA [Bauhin] L. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 



Erect, strong--scented perennial herbs, with 4-ang-led stems bearing- panicles of flowers. 

 Leaves opposite, the blades toothed, petioled. Sepals 5, nearly distinct. Corolla greenish 

 purple to dark maroon, its tube cylindric to semi-globose, its upper lip horizontally pro- 

 jecting and flat, its lower lip with the lateral lobes vertical and the middle deflexed or 

 recurved. Stamens 4, slightly didynamous, included, the anther-cells divergent. Rudiment 

 of uppermost filament scale-like or lacking. Capsule septicidal. Seeds numerous, plump, 

 furrowed. [Named for its repute in curing- scrofula.] 



A genus of about 120 species, natives of the northern hemisphere. Type species: Scrophularia nodosa L. 



Inflorescence villose, the hairs tipped with small glands; sepals acute to acuminate; corolla 8-10 mm. long; 



sterile filament lacking or a minute rudiment; capsule very acute. 1. S. villosa. 



Inflorescence puberulent or short-pubescent, the hairs tipped with relatively large glands; sepals usually rounded 

 (varying to acuminate in S. californica) ; sterile filament developed. 

 Corolla dark maroon, 9-11 mm. long, its upper half blackish, the tube globular-urceolate with constricted 

 orifice, the lowermost lobe deflexed-spreading; sterile filament lance-oblong, blackish maroon; capsule 

 obtuse or merely acute. 2. S. atrata. 



