776 SCROPHULARIACEAE 



4. Collinsia multicolor Lindl. & Paxt. Franciscan Blue-eyed Mary. Fig. 4737. 



Collinsia multicolor Lindl. & Paxt. Flow. Card. 2: 89. pi. 55. 1851. 



Collinsia franciscana Bioletti, Erythea 1: 17. 1893. 



Collinsia sparsiflora var. franciscana Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 399. 1901. 



Plant 1.5-3 dm. tall, the stem distally canescent-puberulent and the inflorescence with long 

 gland-tipped hairs. Leaf-blades lanceolate or triangularly ovate-lanceolate, acutish to obtuse, 

 dentate glabrous, reaching 2-3 cm. long, rounded to nearly sessile bases ; mflorescence of 

 slender-pedicel led flowers, the bracts all foliose but the upper smaller, the pedicels solitary and 

 10-27 mm. long; calyx-tube puberulent, 3 mm. long, the ovate-lanceolate ciliolate lobes 5 mm. 

 long- corolla 18-20 mm. long, basal pouch rounded; upper lip whitish, much shorter than the 

 lower lip, of which the obovate lateral lobes are violet-blue but the slightly shorter lowermost 

 lobe is di'stally purple and glabrous; filaments all simple; capsule 5 mm. long; seeds 1.5 mm. 

 long, with incurved margins. 



Barren soil, Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; near the coast from San Francisco to Monterey Counties; 

 middle California. Type locality: California. April-May. 



5. Collinsia bartsiaefolia Benth. White Chinese Houses. Fig. 4738. 



Collinsia bartsiaefolia Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 318. 1846. 

 Collinsia stricta Greene, Pittonia 2:23. 1889. 



Collinsia tinctoria var. stricta Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 903. 1925. 

 Collinsia bartsiaefolia var. stricta Newsom, Bot. Gaz. 87 : 273. 1929. 



Plant 2-4 dm. tall, the stem canescent-puberulent or distally minutely glandular-pubescent. 

 Leaf-blades oblong, obtuse, dentate with rounded or acutish teeth, glabrous, 2-4 cm. long, 

 rounded to short ciliate petioles ; inflorescence of clusters of short-pedicelled flowers, the bracts 

 reduced and linear-oblong, each exceeded by its fascicle of 1 or 2 flowers ; calyx-tube yillose to 

 glabrous, 2 mm. long, the oblong obtuse pubescent or glabrous lobes 3 mm. long; corolla 10-14 

 mm long, basal pouch rounded, scarcely raised ; upper lip white, much shorter than the lower 

 lip, of which the obovate lateral lobes are white or purple, with the lowermost lobe shorter 

 and glabrous, all the lobes venose-lined; filaments all simple; capsule 3.5 mm. long. 



Presumably sandy soil, Lower and Upper Sonoran Zones; from Shasta and Lake Counties to Kern County, 

 California. Type locality: Mokelumne River, Calaveras County, California. April-May. 



Collinsia bartsiaefolia var. Davidsdnii (Parish) Newsom, Bot. Gaz. 87:272. 1929 (.Collinsia David- 

 sonii Parish Zoe 4: 147. 1893.) Leaf-blades relatively wider, oblong-ovate, crenate-dentate; stem only 0.5-2 

 dm. tall! not glandular. Lower Sonoran Zone; Mojave Desert of southern California. Type locality: Lancaster, 

 Los Angeles County, California. April-May. 



Collinsia bartsiaefolia var. hirsuta (Kell.) Pennell. (Collinsia hirsuta Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2:110. 

 fia 34 1863 ) Leaf-blades widely oblong, dentate with rounded lobes; inflorescence usually not glandular and 

 of "fewer (3 to 5. instead of 4 to 9) fascicles, the corolla 16-19 mnu long. Sandy soil. Lower and Upper 

 Sonoran Zones; San Francisco and Madera Counties to Monterey and Kern Counties, central California. Type 

 locality: San Francisco, California. March-May. 



6. Collinsia cor5mib6sa Herder. Round-headed Chinese Houses. Fig. 4739. 



Collinsia corymbosa Herder, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 32. 1857. 



Plant 1-1.5 dm. tall, usually with diffusely spreading branches, the stem canescent-puberulent 

 throughout. Leaf-blades oblong, rounded at apex, crenate-dentate, finely pilose, 2-3 cm. long, 

 rounded or cuneate to short petioles or the upper nearly sessile ; inflorescence of single head- 

 like clusters of flowers, the foliose bracts much exceeded by their fascicles of 3 or 4 flowers, 

 which are borne on pedicels 3-7 mm. long; calyx-tube pubescent to somewhat villose, 5 mm. 

 long the ovate rounded glabrescent lobes 5 mm. long; corolla 15-18 mm. long, basal pouch 

 low-rounded and scarcely evident; upper lip purple-violet (its free lobes brownish) less than 

 half length of lower lip, of which the white lateral lobes about equal the violet-purple glabrous 

 lowermost lobe; filaments all simple; capsule 7 mm. long; seeds 2 mm. long, turgid, with 

 incurved margins. 



Sand dunes Humid Transition Zone; coast from Mendocino County to San Francisco County. California. 

 Type locality: accredited to "Mexico," but presumably from Russian colony on coast of present Sonoma County, 

 California. May-June. 



7. Collinsia tinctoria Hartw. Sticky Chinese Houses. Fig. 4740. 



Collinsia tinctoria Hartw. ex Benth. PI. Hartw. 328. 1849. 



Collinsia barbata Bosse, Verb. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. II. 1: 399. 1853. 



Collinsia septemnervia Kell. Proc. Calif. Acad. 2: 224. 1863. 



Plant 3-6 dm. tall, the stem proximally glabrous, distally pubescent with spreading glandless 

 hairs but through the inflorescence pubescent with short hairs bearing large dark glands. Leaf- 

 blades lanceolate, obtuse, serrate-dentate, beneath finely pubescent, reaching 5-9 cm. long, 

 mostly rounded to sessile bases (upper somewhat clasping and lowest smaller and petioled) ; 

 inflorescence of clusters of short-pedicelled flowers, the reduced bracts glandular-pubescent, 

 each exceeded by its fascicle of 3 to 5 flowers; calyx 5-6 mm. long, glandular-pubescent, its 

 oblong-lanceolate acutish sepals united less than 1 mm.; corolla 13-17 mm. long, basal pouch 

 strongly raised and sharply rounded; upper lip white, proximally with pansy-violet cross-band 

 and at base with white knob-like protuberance over orifice; lower lip over twice ength of upper, 

 its lateral lobes white and villose-pubescent, proximally violet-lined and distally violet-dotted. 



