FIGWORT FAMILY 855 



a short compact head-like spike of 5-15 flowers, subtended by several 3-lobed outer bracts 

 (the segments linear-oblong to mostly -oblanceolate) ; flowering bracts 13-15 mm. long, oblong, 

 rounded or mucronulate, pale yellowish green or distally dull olive-brown, setose-pilose and 

 ciliolate; calyx 13-15 mm. long, oblong-lanceolate or narrower, acute; corolla 12-13 mm. long, 

 light greenish yellow, its throat with maroon lines below (but not reaching) all the sinuses, 

 its galea dorsally finely pubescent, distally chalcedony-yellow, the apex slightly hooded by 

 the wide white membranous margins; its lower lip slightly wider, little inflated, the pouch 

 glabrescent, proximally dark brown, but mostly pale yellow, distally with incurved margins 

 but without evident lobes; stamens 4, the anthers alike and the filaments all bearded; capsule 

 8-9 mm. long. 



Sandy or gravelly granitic soil. Arid Transition Zone; western slope of southern Sierra Nevada from Mari- 

 posa County to Tulare County, California. Type locality: 3 miles east of Auberry, Fresno County, California. 

 July-Aug. 



16. Cordylanthus filifolius Nutt. Dark-tipped Bird's-beak. Fig. 4931. 



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



Adenostegia filifolia Abrams, Fl. Los Ang. 372. 1904. 



Cordylanthus rigidus var. filifolius J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49: 58. 1917. 



Plants 3-12 dm. tall, with many ascending-spreading branches, not glandular, the herbage 

 pubescent, with some interspersed longer hairs, the bracts setose-ciliate and -pilose. Leaves 

 filiform-linear, with a pair of slender lobes, the segments usually involute and obtuse; inflores- 

 cence a short head-like spike of mostly 5-15 flowers, subtended by several 3-lobed outer bracts 

 (the segments mostly filiform-oblanceolate, widening to callose blackish violet tips) ; flowering 

 bracts 16-17 mm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse or rounded, finely pubescent and somewhat setose- 

 pilose; calyx 15-16 mm. long, lanceolate, distally minutely bidentate and dark-callose ; corolla 

 14-16 mm. long, white, its throat horizontally flattened and widened, rounded diamond-shaped, 

 with 2 wide dull purple antero-lateral lines, its galea dorsally minutely pubescent, greenish 

 yellow, glabrescent at apex, and with wide dull purple membranous margins ; its lower lip 

 horizontally widened and inflated, the pouch proximally pubescent with reflexed hairs, but 

 internally glabrous, with apex obscurely lobed on the everted margin; stamens 4, the anthers 

 nearly alike and the filaments all bearded ; capsule 10 mm. long. 



Sandy openings in chaparral, Upper Sonoran Zone; lowland and mountains near coast from Los Angeles 

 County, southern California, to northern Lower California. Type locality: San Diego, California. April-Aug. 



17. Cordylanthus nidularius J. T. Howell. Birds-on-Nest. Fig. 4932. 



Cordylanthus nidularius J. T. Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 207. 1943. 



Plants 2-4 dm. long, diffusely spreading, pubescent with recurved-spreading hairs, the 

 inflorescence hirsute and evidently glandularly so. Leaves linear, entire, obtuse ; inflorescence 

 a single-flowered head-like cluster, subtended by several deeply 3-lobed outer bracts (the seg- 

 ments linear, abruptly spatulate-thickened, and blackish purple marginally) ; flowering bracts 

 15-16 mm. long, lance-oblong, obtuse or rounded; calyx 16-17 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute; corolla 14-15 mm. long, white or lilac-tinted, its throat horizontally expanded, ven- 

 trally with purple lines, its galea distally externally pubescent nearly to the rounded apex, 

 with glabrous membranous margins, its lower lip much widened and pouched, externally finely 

 reflexed-pubescent, internally glabrous, the margins of the shallow lobes incurved; stamens 4, 

 the anthers alike and the filaments all bearded. 



Serpentine, Upper Sonoran Zone; Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California. Type locality: north 

 side of Slount Diablo, California. July-Aug. 



18. Cordylanthus Hansenii (Ferris) J. F. Macbride. Hansen's Bird's-beak. 



Fig. 4933. 



Cordylanthus pilosus var. trifidus Rob. & Greenm. Bot. Gaz. 22: 168. 1896. 



Adenostegia Hansenii Ferris, Bull. Torrey Club 45: 408. 1918. 



Cordylanthus Hansenii J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 59: 36. 1919. 



Plants 4-8 dm. tall, with many ascending branches, pubescent with spreading hairs of 

 which some are short and gland-tipped while others are long and glandless. Leaves linear, 

 obtuse or obtusish; inflorescence a 1-3-flowered head-like cluster, subtended by several 3-lobed 

 (usually distally so) to entire outer bracts (the segments broadly linear or linear-oblanceolate), 

 the flowering bract and calyx dark violet-purple; flowering bract 18-19 mm. long, narrowly 

 oblong, rounded; calyx 18-20 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, acute and slightly bifid; corolla 

 15-18 mm. long, apparently dark (not seen fresh), its galea dorsally pubescent, with glabrous 

 membranous margins, its lower lip horizontally widened, externally minutely pubescent, inter- 

 nally glabrous, the margin of the shallow lobes incurved; stamens 4, the anthers alike and 

 the filaments all bearded; capsule 9 mm. long. 



Gravelly open places among oak and pine, Arid Transition Zone; southern Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada 

 from Shasta County to Tuolumne County, California. Type locality: Agricultural College, Amador County, 

 California. July-Aug. 



19. Cordylanthus viscidus (Howell) Pennell. Viscid Bird's-beak. Fig. 4934. 



Adenostegia viscida Howell, Fl. N.W. Amer. 537. 1901. 



Cordylanthus tenuis var. viscidus J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 59: 35. 1919. 



Cordylanthus viscidus Pennell ex Peck, Man. PI. Oregon 675. 1941. 



Plants 2-6 dm. tall, with many ascending-spreading branches, pubescent with spreading 

 hairs of which some or most are short and gland-tipped while others are long and glandless. 



