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Eefs. — SCUTELLAKIA BOLANDERi Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:387 (1868), type loc. Clarkg Mdws. 

 (Wawona), Mariposa Co., Bolander; Jepson, FI. W. Mid. Cal. 454 (1901), ed. 2, 355 (1911), Man. 

 864 (1925). Var. atjstromontana Jepson. S. bolanderi subsp. austromontana Epling, Madroiio, 

 5:58 (1939), type loc. Lake Henshaw, San Diego Co., Gander 2739. 



3. S. califomica Gray. California Skullcap. Stems clustered, commonly 

 simple, 5 to 8 (or 15) inches high; herbage puberulent; leaf -blades oval-ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, 8 to 16 lines long, the lower disposed to be crenate and purplish 

 beneath, the upper narrower and entire, the uppermost much reduced and shorter 

 than the flowers ; petioles 1 to 3 lines long ; corolla nearly white or slightly yellowi.sh, 

 minutely short-hairy with spreading hairs, 8 to 12 lines long, the throat ampliate- 

 inflated and pilose within, the lips both erect and equal or nearly so ; nutlets rugu- 

 lose or papillate. 



Borders of brush or in open woods on hillsides or in caiions, (150 or) 2500 to 

 6000 feet: Coast Ranges from Alameda and Marin Cos. to Trinity Co.; Sierra 

 Nevada from Calaveras Co. to Shasta Co. June-July. 



Tax. note. — Scutellaria californiea has been in recent years reduced to a variety of Scutellaria 

 bolanderi but the two do not seem closely related as understood here. Asa Gray made it a species 

 although he originally published it as a variety of Scutellaria antirrhinoides. In the Botany of 

 California he attributes his Scutellaria antirrhinoides var. californiea first of all to the coastal 

 region, "Alameda [Co.] to Mendocino Co." In this region grows a plant which has been tradi- 

 tionally regarded as Scutellaria californiea Gray by California botanists. It inhabits low dry 

 foothills, while Scutellaria bolanderi, on the other hand, is found in Sierra Nevada meadows or 

 on borders of surface streamlets. The upper leaves, especially those subtending the flowers, are 

 conspicuously reduced in Scutellaria californiea, whOe in Scutellaria bolanderi the stem is equably 

 leafy to the top. In Scutellaria californiea the leaves are spreading or divergent, shortly petioled 

 and shorter than the internodes. In Scutellaria bolanderi the erect sessile leaves cordately or sub- 

 cordately clasp the stem and are longer than the internodes. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Berkeley Hills, Jepson 9792; Mt. Tamalpais, Eastirood 1530; Sonoma 

 Caiion, Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Jepson 10,002 ; upper Suisun Valley, Jepson 14,932 ; Santa Eosa, 

 M. S. Balcer 591; Bartlett Sprs., n. Lake Co., Jepson 18,943; Potter Valley, Mendocino Co., Pur- 

 pus: betw. Mud Flat and Bennett Spr., w. Glenn Co., Heller 11,551a; South Fork sta., lower Eel 

 River, Constance 936; Buck Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 15,453; Three Forks of Mad River, Trinity 

 Co., Tracy 10,201. Sierra Nevada: Dorrington, Calaveras Co., Ivan Branson; Sly Park, Eldorado 

 Co., Ball 11,382; French Mdw., Middle Fork American River, L. S. Smith 1670; Donner Lake, 

 Seller 7020; Bear Valley, Nevada Co., Jepson 14,934; Smartsville, Yuba Co., Cramsie ; Quincy, 

 Clemens; Payne Creek sta. (4 mi. w.), Tehama Co., Eastwood 4" Howell 1877; Burney Spr., Shasta 

 Co., Feirson 10,283. 



Refs.— Scutellaria califoenica Gray, Syn. Fl. 2:381 (1878) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 454 

 (1901), ed. 2, 355 (1911), Man. 864 (1925). S. antirrhinoides var. californiea Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 8:396 (1872), type collected by Fremont, presumably (without reasonable doubt) in Cal.; 

 the label of the type (Gray Herb.) bears the printed heading, "Fremont's Expedition to California, 

 1845-7," with the date 1846 written in. S. bolanderi var. californiea Penland, Ehod. 26:68 (1924). 



4. S. angustifolia Pursh. Stems erect, simple or somewhat branched, 4 to 13 

 (or 21) inches high; herbage subglabrous to finely puberulent; leaf-blades oblong 

 to linear, varying to ovate, entire or very sparsely toothed, % to lYo (or 1%) inches 

 long, subsessile or the lower distinctly petioled (the petioles 1 to 3 lines long) ; basal 

 leaves orbicular to ovate or cordate, 5 to 7 lines long, the petioles usually longer ; 

 flowers 9 to 14 lines long, the pedicels equaling the calyx ; corolla blue, the tube dis- 

 tinctly curving above calj'x, the lips at maturity markedly unequal, the lower one 

 villous inside, its middle lobe with upturned edge ; nutlets thinly papillate. 



Moist soil of stream bottoms, springy spots on hillsides, dry slopes, rocliy ledges 

 or pine flats : mountains of Southern California, 5000 to 7000 feet; Sierra Nevada, 

 1000 to 5000 feet, from Tulare Co. to eastern Siskivou Co. ; upper Sacramento Val- 

 ley, 250 to 1000 feet; North Coast Ranges, 600 to 2000 feet, from Santa Clara Co. to 

 Trinity Co. North to Wa.shington and Idaho. May-Aug. 



Field note. — The corolla in Scutellaria angustifolia is markedly gaping; the erect galea is 

 incurved above, its apex standing well above and somewhat over the horizontal floor of the lower 

 lip ; the middle lobe of lower lip is concave on the under side, convex-rounded above, and spreading 

 horizontally; the lateral lobes are very short and coiled-recurved. The upper pair of filaments is 

 adnate to corolla higher than the lower pair. All the filaments are flattened at the middle of free 



