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none on upper whorls. Calyx with open-campanulate tube, acu- 

 minate divisions as long as the tube, as long as, or longer than, 

 the capsule. Corolla with lobes of upper lip yellow, lower pur- 

 plish-blue, wings slightly longer than the keel, throat shorter 

 than the divisions. Stamens 4, with smooth filaments ; one pair 

 with a tuft of hairs at base. Seeds 2 thick, brownish-black, 

 grooved on the face, the surface marked under a lens with minute 

 venation like a honey-comb. In C. Torreyi, a closely allied spe- 

 cies, the seeds are curved, these are straight. Sequoia Mills, 

 Kings River Canon. 



Collinsia Childii Gray. Stems erect, a foot high, generally 

 branching from the lower axils, puberulent and glandular. 

 Lowest leaves oblong, narrowed to a short petiole, crenate ; 

 upper oblanceolate to lanceolate, rather thin, revolute, entire or 

 toothed, on short petioles, midrib puberulent, blade otherwise 

 smooth, inch or more long. Flowers small on erect pedicels, not 

 deflexed in fruit, shorter than the leaf-like lower bracts, longer 

 than the small upper ones. Calyx urn- shaped in fruit, with the 

 triangular divisions longer than the tube, glandular, hairy, about 

 as long as the capsule. Corolla small, purple, tube longer than 

 the upper divisions, shorter than the lower, wings narrow, longer 

 than the keel. Stamens 4, with smooth filaments. Seeds light 

 brown ainiost yi inch long, boat-shaped, beautifully and finely 

 veined. Sequoia Mills. 



Scrophuiaria Californica Cham. Californian Bee- 

 Plant. Tall, stout, perennial herbs, 2-5 fc. high; nearly 

 smooth. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, usually cordate at base, 

 coarsely doubly- toothed or slashed. Flowers brownish- purple in 

 fascicled cymes. The honey glands produce a large quantity of 

 honey. This was not collected, but is to be expected in the 

 region. 



Pentstemon Newberryi Gray. Stems 6 inches to a foot 

 high, from creeping, woody rootstocks, smooth and glaucous ex- 

 cept the more or less glandular inflorescence. Leaves orbicular 

 or ovate-oblong, the lower on short, margined petioles ; upper 

 sessile, serrate ; blades % inch long, pedicels slender, bracts 

 minute. Division of calyx extending to the base, narrowly- 

 linear, long-pointed, becoming half inch or more in fruit. Corolla 

 carmine-red, narrowly tubular-funnel-form, the 2 lips almost 

 equal, upper 2-cleft, clothed internally with white hairs, lower 

 3-cleft. Anthers clothed with long, white, dense wool, exserted, 

 becoming shield-shaped when open, sterile filament bearded on 

 one side more than half its length. Bubbs Creek, Sequoia Mills, 

 trail to Bullfrog Lake. 



