Flora of Sotcth Fork of Kings River. 6r 



shaped at the sessile base. Peduncles spreading forming an open 

 thyrse. Calyx divisions linear-lanceolate tipped with a sharp re- 

 curving point. Corolla violet blue, inch long, the throat expand- 

 ing above the short calyx, moderately 2-lipped, the border more 

 than half inch across. Anthers shaped like a horse-shoe, ciliate 

 across the slit at the top, with a tuft of hairs above the insertion of 

 the filament on one side, sterile filament smooth. Millwood. 



Pentstemon Jaffrayanus Hook. With many erect branches 

 from an ascending or creeping, woody stem, glaucous and smooth 

 throughout. Leaves oblong, oblanceolate, spatulate, an inch or 

 less long, entire or slightly serrate, lower petioled, upper sessile. 

 Peduncles 1-5, flowered, in a close panicle. Calyx divisions short, 

 ovate, tipped with a recurved point, membranous on the margins. 

 Corolla violet, Y^ inch long, dilating above the short tube to a 

 broad throat, the two lips somewhat equal. Anthers shaped as 

 the preceding, ciliate along the edges, opening by a slit at the 

 top ; sterile filament smooth. Kings River Canon, 



Pentstemon Bridgesii Gray. Stems many, from a woody 

 base, slender, wand-like, 2 feet or more high, generally blooming 

 from about the middle. Leaves lanceolate, inch or more long, 

 acute, lowest tapering to a short, clasping petiole, upper sessile. 

 Flowers scarlet or rarely yellow, panicled, with slender spreading 

 peduncles 2-5 flowered, with the pedicels and calyx glandular, 

 the latter with divisions triangular-ovate. Corolla inch long with 

 narrow, cylindrical tube curving outwards near the base ; upper 

 lip erect, 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, recurved. Filaments smooth, 

 anthers obtuse at apex, arrow-shaped at base, opening by a slit 

 along the ciliate top ; sterile filament with smooth, clavate tip. 

 Kings River Canon, Bubbs Creek. 



Castilleia montana Congdon. Perennials, with tall and slen- 

 der stems, simple or with few slender branches, smooth or 

 pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, long-pointed, sessile, 1-3 in. long. 

 Flowers in short and dense spikes which lengthen in fruit, sessile 

 or on very short pedicels, red, showy. Calyx cleft deeper before 

 than behind, with two oblong divisions, each deeply parted into 

 long, linear, pointed lobes. Bracts of lower flowers similar to 

 the leaves, upper lobed. Corolla very slender, slightly curving, 

 1-1% in. long, the upper lip as long as the tube, lower very short. 

 This is the most showy Castilleia of the region. It was collected 

 in General Grant Grove and along the trail up Bubbs Creek. 



Castilleia Brooicsii Eastwood. Perennial, branching from 

 the base and with some short branches above, glandular, viscid 

 throughout and pubescent with white, silvery hairs. Spikes 



