852 SCROPHULARIACEAE 



and with decurved glabrous purple minute lobes; stamens 4, the upper pair with somewhat 

 smaller anthers, all the filaments bearded ; capsule 6-7 mm. long. 



Gravelly sagebrush, Upper Sonoran Zone; western Great Basin, eastern California and western Nevada. 

 Type locality: north of Reno, Nevada. July-Sept. 



8. Cordylanthus ramosus Nutt. Much-branched Bird's-beak. Fig. 4923. 



Cordylanthus ramosus Nutt. ex Benth. in A. DC. Prod. 10: 597. 1846. 

 Adenostegia ramosa Greene, Pittonia 2: 180. 1891. 



Plants mostly 2-3 dm. tall, erect, slenderly much-branched, the herbage grayish-puberulent 

 with fine recurved-spreading glandless hairs. Leaves filiform, involute, entire or with a pair of 

 filiform lobes; inflorescence shortly spicate or head-like, of 3-5 flowers, subtended by several 

 5-lobed outer bracts; flowering bracts 14-15 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, entire, obtuse or 

 rounded at apex; calyx 14-15 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, bidentate (0.5 mm.) at apex; 

 corolla 15-17 mm. long, brownish yellow, its galea dorsally minutely pubescent but distally 

 yellow and glabrous, with hardened decurved apex and with membranous margins, its lower 

 lip with horizontally widened, moderately inflated, finely pubescent yellowish pouch that is 

 internally medianly pubescent, and with very short rounded lobes of which the median is 

 widest and everted ; stamens 4, the anthers alike and the filaments all bearded ; capsule 8 mm. 

 long. 



Stony sagebrush. Upper Sonoran and Transition Zones; central Oregon and northeastern California to 

 Wyoming and Colorado. Type locality: Rocky Mountains. July-Aug. 



Cordylanthus ramosus subsp. setosus Pennell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 99: 193. 1947. Plants stiffly branched, 

 1-2 dm tall- heads 5-10-flowered, the outer bracts with plane linear lobes, these and the flowering bracts 

 strongly setose; corolla apparently brighter yellow, its yellow throat more strongly purple-spotted. Sagebrush, 

 Arid Transition Zone; western Great Basin, eastern California and western Nevada. Type locality: Sweetwater 

 Mountains, Mono County, California. July-Aug. 



9 Cordylanthus eremicus (Coville & Morton) Munz. Desert Bird's-beak. 



Fig. 4924. 



Adenostegia eremica Coville & Morton, Journ. Wash. Acad. 22: 161. 1932. 

 Cordylanthus eremicus Munz, Man. S. Calif. 483. 1935. 



Plant 2-3 dm. tall, with stiffly ascending branches, the herbage whitish, cinereous-pubescent 

 with fine recurved glandless hairs. Leaves filiform, involute, entire or with a pair of long 

 filiform lobes ; inflorescence a short head-like spike of 3-5 flowers, subtended by several 5- or 

 7-lobed outer bracts; bracts and calyces with purplish callose apices; flowering bracts 13-16 

 mm. long, strongly purple, oblong, entire, acutish to usually rounded at apex ; calyx 13-16 mrn. 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, purple, obscurely bidentate at apex ; corolla 16-18 mm. long, purplish, 

 its galea dorsally finclv pubescent but only minutely so to glabrescent at the scarcely hardened 

 apex, with membranous margins, its lower lip with horizontally widened, moderately inflated, 

 pubescent (especially laterally) pouch that is internally loosely pubescent at orifice, and with 

 very short wide lobes that are all everted; stamens 4, the anthers alike and the filaments all 

 bearded; capsule 8 mm. long. 



Presumably rocky soil, Upper Sonoran Zone; Panamint Mountains, southeastern California. Type locality: 

 Panamint Mountains, at head of Death Valley Canyon, California. Sept. 



10. Cordylanthus bernardinus Munz. San Bernardino Bird's-beak. Fig. 4925. 



Cordylanthus bernardinus Munz, Leaflets West. Bot. 4: 239. 1946. 



Plants 2-4 dm. tall, with stiffly ascending branches, the herbage yellowish, cinereous-pubes- 

 cent with fine recurved glandless hairs. Leaves filiform, involute, entire; inflorescence a short 

 head-like spike of 3-5 flowers, subtended by several 3- or 5-lobed outer bracts; bracts and 

 calyces with purplish callose apices ; flowering bracts 15-16 mm. long, yellowish, oblong, rounded 

 to bluntly acuminate at apex; calyx 15-16 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate, entire or obscurely 

 bidentate at apex; corolla 14-16 mm. long, yellowish, its galea dorsally minutely pubescent, 

 glabrous at the slightly hardened apex, the wide margins white, its lower lip with horizontally 

 widened, moderately inflated, pubescent (especially laterally) pouch that is internally pubescent 

 below orifice, and with very short wide lobes that are all slightly everted; stamens 4, the 

 anthers alike and the filaments all bearded ; capsule 8 mm. long. 



Alkaline soil, Lower Sonoran Zone; southern Mojave Desert, southern California. Type locality : west of 

 Cushenberry Springs, north base of San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, bept.- 

 Oct. 



11. Cordylanthus Ferrisianus Pennell. Ciliate Bird's-beak. Fig. 4926. 



Cordylanthus Ferrisianus Pennell, Proc. Acad. Phila. 99: 193. 1947. 



Plants 4-6 dm. tall, diffusely much-branched, the stem and leaves finely pubescent with 

 recurving glandless hairs, the bracts glabrescent on surfaces but more or less ciliate on margins. 

 Leaves linear, with a pair of linear lobes, the segments obtuse or acutish ; inflorescence a short 

 head-like cluster of 3-5 flowers, subtended by several 3-lobed outer bracts (the lobes lanceo- 

 late or oblong) ; flowering bracts 13-15 mm. long, lance-oblong, rounded at apex, distally 

 green and setose-pilose; calyx 14-16 mm. long, lanceolate, distally entire; corolla 13-16 mrn. 

 long, white (not seen fresh), its galea dorsally minutely pubescent, glabrous at apex, with wide 

 white membranous margins, its lower lip slightly shorter, with horizontally widened, moderately 



