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BOTANY. 
Territory, and in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. East Humboldt and 
Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in tlic Walisatcli and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet 
altitude; July-September. (805.) 
Veronica serpyllifolia, L. From Unalaska southward throughout 
the continent ;" reported, west of the Mississippi, from Colorado and Idaho. 
In the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet altitude ; July, August. Sub- 
alpine and rare. (806.) 
Veronica peregrina, L. From Canada to the Great Slave Lake, the 
Upper Missouri, and Northern California, and southward throughout the 
continent. Rather frequent through Nevada and Utah ; 4,500-6,500 feet 
altitude; May-September. (807.) 
Castilleia linari^folia, Benth. DC. Prodr. 10. 232. Grays Rev. 
Castil, Amer. Jour. Sci, n. s., 34. 335. Glabrous or loosely woolly-pubes- 
cent above ; leaves long and usually Hnear, entire or often 3-cleft or 3-parted, 
narrowed at base, the floral ones scarlet-colored and acute ; spike inter- 
rupted ; calyx incurved, deeply clefl anteriorly, subulately 4-toothed at the 
apex ; galea of the corolla elongated and usually much exserted, the lobes of 
the lower lip linear-subulate.— Stems 1^-2° high, (4-6°, Thurber,) from a 
woody base, simple or branched, somewhat glaucous, shining, rarely pubes- 
cent throughout ; leaves 1-3' long, occasionally 3-4" broad, 1-nerved or 
more or less 3-nerved at base ; flowers sessile or upon short peduncles, the 
calyx J-1' long, usually exceeding the bracts, colored ; corolla 1-2' long, 
nearly glabrous, bright scarlet, the yellow galea usually 1' or more in length 
or sometimes scarcely exsert. A showy and well-marked species, growing 
on dry rocky mountain sides. Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. 
Washoe, East and West Humboldt and Toyabe Mountains, Nevada, and in 
the Wahsatch ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (808.) 
Castilleia affinis, H. & A. Grmj, I. c, 336. Root annual or bien- 
nial ; hirsutely pubescent or sometimes nearly glabrous ; leaves linear or 
lanceolate-attenuate, the floral ones rarely 3-cleft ; flowers more or less 
pedicelled ; calyx cleft to the middle, both above and below, the segments 
narrow, usually 2-cleft or eniarginate ; galea elongated, falcate, the lip very 
short.— California; Arizona, (Ives.) Var. minor. Gray. The floral leaves 
colored only at the tips ; calyx green and herbaceous ; galea of the pale cor- 
olla but 3-4" long and little exceeding the calyi.— Northern Mexico and 
New Mexico. The numerous specimens of the collection show a slender 
