58 Sierra Club Publications. 



SCROPHULARIACE/E. 



Antirrhinum leptaleum Gray. Annual, stems erect, simple 

 or with few branches near the base, clothed with spreading gland- 

 ular hairs. Leaves lanceolate to linear, inch or two long, lowest 

 narrowed at base to short petioles, obtuse at apex. Flowers from 

 almost the lowest axils on very short pedicels almost perpendicu- 

 lar to the stem. Calj'x with linear-lanceolate sepals, acute, a lit- 

 tle longer than the capsule, about as long as the stout persistent 

 style. Corolla violet, with tube a little longer than the cah^x, 

 border 2-lipped, upper lip of 2 rounded lobes separated by an obtuse 

 sinus, lower of 3 spreading divisions broader than the upper, the 

 fold in the throat of 2 parts ; spur at base of tube short, blunt. 

 Stamens 4, the 2 longer with the filaments at apex broader than 

 the anthers, the shorter dilated but little, with a tuft of hairs 

 about the middle ; lower on the longer filaments. Capsule ob- 

 long, a little unequal sided ; style stout, curved, as long as the 

 capsule. Seeds deeply convoluted, numerous. Converse Basin, 

 Sequoia Mills. 



Collinsia tinctoria Hartweg. Annual, from less than a foot to 

 3 feet or more in height, smooth, erect. Leaves opposite, the 

 lowest oblong-elliptical on short petioles, united and clasping at 

 base ; upper leaves lanceolate to narrowly ovate, crenate-dentate, 

 acute, clasping at the sessile base. Flowers in whorls some dis- 

 tance apart on short pedicels. Calyx glandular, hairy, of 4 linear 

 divisions, the 2 lower almost twice as wide as the 2 upper. Co- 

 rolla creamy white, tinged or veined with reddish-purple, keel 

 shorter than the wings, throat broad, smooth throughout except 

 for some hairs on the inner surface of the wings, ear-like folds at 

 base of wings prominent, crest on throat of upper lip broadl)- V- 

 shaped, the tooth-like gland at base of tube as long as tube. Fila- 

 ments hairy on the lower half, anther cells becoming almost flat. 

 Ovarj- orbicular. This becomes very tall in the wet meadows, 

 the flowers are larger and the whole plant smoother than when it 

 grows in dryer places. The glands leave a purple stain on the 

 paper in which the plants are pressed. Kings River Canon, 

 Bubbs Creek. 



Collinsia Wrightii Wats. Annual, usually much branched, 

 low, slender and spreading, purple-glandular. Leaves in few 

 pairs, lowest oblong-spa tulate, entire on petioles of the same 

 length or longer, upper linear-lanceolate, entire or with a few 

 scattered teeth near the apex, 1-2 inches long, narrow, obtuse. 

 Flowers small, 4 or 5dn the whorls, on thread-like pedicels that 

 become spreading later and deflexed, half an inch long ; bracts 



