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or nearly so, with the lower lip erect and as long as the upper lip. In the prevailing form of 

 Scutellaria angustifolia the corolla-tube is markedly curved, with the lower lip spreading horizon- 

 tally, its floor standing under the tip of the galea. Between these species there are, however, 

 intermediate states as easily referable to one species as the other. Such states have been especially 

 noted in the inner North Coast Range from Lake Co. to Siskiyou Co. As to position of lips one 

 collection may exhibit both forms. The advantage in maintaining two species, where all emphasis 

 has been brought to bear on differences and 

 little consideration given to the heavily 

 weighted likenesses, is doubtful. 



Locs. — Northern Los Angeles Co. : 

 Licbre Mts. (Contrib. V. S. Nat. Herb. 22: 

 732). Coast Ranges: Oakland Hills, IF. W. 

 Carruth ; Indian Valley, nc. Lake Co., Jepson 

 8992 ; Sherwood Valley, cent. Mendocino Co., 

 Jepson 1829 ; Covelo, ne. Mendocino Co., 

 Cronemiller 623; Dobbyn Creek, s. Hum- 

 boldt Co., Tracy 8763 ; Three Forks of Mad 

 River, Trinity Co., Tracy 10,200; Berry's 

 ranch, Redwood Creek, n. Humboldt Co., 

 Jepson 1969 ; Trinity Summit, Tracy 14,207 ; 

 Klamath River, near Terwah Creek, Del 

 Norte Co., R. Van Devenler 247 ; Sissou, Sis- 

 kiyou Co., Jepson 14,929. Sierra Nevada: 

 Middle Tule River, Purpus 5605 ; Big Mdws., 

 Plumas Co., E. M. Austin; Goose Vallev, 

 Shasta Co., Peirson 10,327 ; Egg Lake, Mo- 

 doc Co., M. S. Baker, 



Refs. — Scutellaria antikrhinoides 

 Benth., Bot. Reg. t. 1493 (1832), type loc. 

 Columbia River near Ft. Vancouver, Wash., 

 Scouler; Jepson, Man. 864 (1925). S. ne- 

 vadensis Eastw., Bull. Torr. Club 30:492 

 (1903), type loc. Little Lakes Caiion, West- 

 ern Stampede, Elko Co., Nev., P. B. Kennedy 

 546. S. sanhedrensis Hel., Muhl. 1:31 

 (1904), type loc. Summit Lake, Mt. San- 

 hedrin, Lake Co., Ecllrr 5894. S. antirrhi- 

 noidcs var. sanhedrensis Leonard, Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 22:732 (1927). 



6. S. tuberosa Benth. Dannie's 

 Skull-cap. ( Pig. 424. ) Stem 2 to 5 

 (or 8) inches high, arising from tu- 

 berous rootstoeks, the tubers oblong, 



3 to 8 lines long; herbage (especially 

 stems and petioles) pilose to puberu- 

 lent; blades of the basal and lower Fig. 

 leaves oval, thin, entire or few-toothed, 



4 to 12 lines long, purplish beneath, 



on petioles as long as the blade, those of the upper eauline ovate, the petioles com- 

 monly short; calyx hirsute or pubescent; corolla violet-purple, 7 to 9 lines long; 

 middle lobe of lower lip somewhat spreading, much larger than the galeate upper 

 lip; nutlets muricate. 



Loamy soil of shady woods, under oi^en brush in the hills, on "burns," or on floors 

 of sandy valleys, 500 to 5000 feet : Sierra Nevada foothills from Shasta Co. to Tulare 

 Co.; upper Sacramento Valley; Coast Ranges (mostly near the coast, Humboldt 

 Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ) ; coastal Southern California. South to northern Lower 

 California, north to southern Oregon. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Sierra Nevada foothills: Ydalpom, Shasta Co., McAllister; Big Chico Creek, Butte 

 Co., Eeller 11,231 ; Rich Gulch, Plumas Co., Follett ; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant; Hodg- 

 don ranch, near Tuolumne Grove, Jepson. 10,538 ; Woody (2% nii. e.), Greenhorn Mts., C. N. Smith 

 341. Upper Sacramento Valley: Oak sta., 9 mi. s. of Redding, Blanhinship; College City, Alice 

 King (this seems an improbable station). Coast Riinges: Mt. Bally, Trinity Co., Kleeherger ; 



424. Scutellaria tuberosa Benth. a, habit ; 

 ft, tubers. X 1. 



