FIGWORT FAMILY 



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2. Cordylanthus canescens A. Gray. Alkali Bird's-beak. Fig. 4917. 



Cordylanthus canescens A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 383. 1868. 



Cordylanthus Parryi S. Wats, ex Parry, Amer. Nat. 9: 346. 1875. 



Adenostegia canescens Greene, Pittonia 2: 181. 1891. 



Adenostegia Parryi Greene, loc. cit. 



Chloropyron canescens Heller, Muhlenbergia 3: 134. 1907. 



Chloropyron Parryi Heller, loc. cit. 



Cordylanthus maritimtts var. canescens Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 947. 1925. 



Cordylanthus maritimus var. Parryi Jepson, loc. cit. 



Plant 2-3 dm. tall, corymbosely much branched, the young herbage pubescent with spreading 

 fine hairs that exude a powdery whitish secretion, becoming purplish and glabrescent. Leaves 

 and bracts glaucous-green, the former lanceolate and glabrescent, the latter ovate-lanceolate or 

 ovate, canescent-pubescent, foliaceous; calyx 13 mm. long, canescent, lanceolate, enclosmg the 

 proximal part of the corolla-throat, distally with sharp teeth about 0.5 mm. long; corolla 

 15-17 mm. long, its galea concave-rounded, minutely pubescent dorsally, pale yellow, and with 

 wide pale thin margins, its lower lip with pinard-yellow slightly inflated distally pubescent 

 pouch and with minute glabrous rounded lobes ; stamens 4, the slender upper filaments with 

 reduced or rudimentary anthers, the lower thicker and longer, with fused anthers; capsule 10 

 mm. long. 



Alkaline flats and marshes. Upper Sonoran Zone; interior plateaus, southern Oregon and eastern Cali- 

 fornia east to Utah. Type locality: Lake Washoe, Nevada. June-Sept. 



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4915 



4916 



4912. Castilleja franciscana 



4913. Castilleja stenantha 



4914. Caitilleja ezilis 



4915. Castilleja spiralis 



4916. Cordylanthus maritimus 



4917. Cordylanthus canescens 



