96 ERYTHEA. 



ized from abnormal specimens in which all but one of the nutlets had 

 aborted. 



MoNARDELLA LIN0IDE8 stricta. Stems herbaceous, slender, 

 branching only at the base, puberulent or glabrous, green ; leaves 

 linear to narrowly-oblong, 15-18 mm. long, or the basal ones ovate 

 and only 4-5 nun. long; floral bracts membranaceous, tinged with 

 purple or red. 



Dry hills, Bear Valley, July 30, 1884, 2077 Parish. Bluff Lake, 

 alt. 7,500 ft. in the same region, Aug. 1895, Miss Nora Pettihone. 



Calamintha mimuloides, Benth. PI. Hartw, 33. Head of 

 Cottonwood Canon, at 4,000 ft. alt., in the mountains near Acton, 

 Los Angeles Co., Aug. 23, 1893, Dr. Basse. 



Herbaceous, 50-60 cm. high, viscidly hirsute, fragrant; leaves 

 thin, ovate, 2-3 cm. long, coarsely toothed; flowers usually 3 in each 

 axil, on slender pedicels, leafy-bracted at base; calyx tubular, 7 mm. 

 flong, 13-uerved, obscurely bilabiate, the cuspidate teeth nearly equal; 

 corolla dull red, sparsely villous, tubular, enlarging in the throat but 

 not gibbous, 4 cm. long, bilabiate; lips straight, 5 ram. long, the 

 upper deeply 2-lobed, villous within, the lower more deeply 3-lobed; 

 filaments didynamous, the upper pair higher inserted, convergent, 

 included under the upper lip, all antheriferous; style exsert, its 

 branches unequal; ovary on a short columnar gynobase; nutlets all 

 4 usually maturing, globose, light colored, perpendicularly veined. 



Collinsia callosa. Plants 15-30 cm. high, dichotoraously 

 branched, glabrous except the slightly glandular pedicels and 

 calyces; leaves opposite or ternate, oblong to acutely ovate, 2 cm. 

 or less in length, the upper much reduced, sessile, entire, the mar- 

 gins somewhat revolute; flowers in verticils of 2 or 3, or solitary, on 

 slender pedicels about 1 cm. long; calyx lobes acute; corolla light 

 blue, 5-8 mm. long, the lips about equaling the moderately gibbous 

 throat, their lobes all entire and of equal length, the lower lip with 

 prominent internal callosities below the sinuses; filaments glabrous, 

 the abortive one filiform, 1 mm. high; style 4 mm. long, stigma 

 entire; mature capsule globose, shorter than the calyx lobes; seeds 

 3 in each cell, oblong-meniscoidal, 3 mm. long, reticulately rugose. 



Swarthout Canon, in the San Antonio Mountains, at 6,500 ft. alt., 

 June, 1899, 1267 H. M. Hall. 



