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Cryptanthe flaccida Greene. Stems rather stout, branching 

 chiefly above, with slender, weak branches, 1-2 ft. high. Flowers 

 minute, sessile, appressed to the stem in fruit ; only one nutlet 

 maturing, this similar to the preceding but more pointed. 



Cryptanthe ambigua Greene. Annual, branching, 1-2 ft. 

 high. Flowers white, chiefly at the ends of the branchlets, these 

 usually 2-forked. Segments of the calyx long and linear, spread- 

 ing at top. Nutlets shining, covered sparsely with little warts as 

 well as minute papillae. Kings River Canon, Bubbs Creek, 

 Millwood. 



Cryptanthe vitrea Eastwood. Stems branching, less than a 

 foot high ; leaves and flowers dense. Corolla minute. Calyx 

 becoming orbicular in fruit. Nutlets 4, with 3 ridges on the back, 

 one central and one at each side, covered closely with glossy 

 warts. Bubbs Creek. 



Plagiobothrys Torreyi Gray. Branching from the base 

 with slender, weak stems, ascending or procumbent. Flowers 

 small, axillary, from almost all the axils. Nutlets keeled on the 

 back and marked with glossy transverse ridges, pale gray, the 

 apices coming together to form a Maltese cross. General Grant 

 Park. 



VERBENACE/E. Verbena Family. 



Verbena prostrata R. Br. Stems branching from the root, 

 1-2 ft. high, generally erect, clothed throughout with white, 

 spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, with petioles clasping at base ; 

 the blades toothed or lobed. Flowers in a terminal spike, slen- 

 der, elongating with age. Flowers blue, very small, about >^ in. 

 long. Near Bearskin Meadow. 



LABIAT/E. Mint Family. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Flowers in terminal heads, having conspicuous involucres ; 

 corolla with upper lip 2-cleft and lower 3-parted into linear 

 lobes ; stamens 4, projecting beyond the corolla, unequal ; 

 annuals or perennials. . Monardella, Pennyroyal. 



Flowers in spikes at the ends of the stems ; stamens 4, unequal ; 

 corolla with the upper lip 2-lobed at the top, lower 3-lobed with 

 the middle lobe crenate ; perennial herbs. 

 Lophanthus, Giant Hyssop. 



Flowers axillary ; stamens 4, the lower pair with anthers i-celled, 

 the upper with anthers 2-celled; calyx helmet-shaped; corolla 

 with an arched upper lip, lower lip entire ; perennial herbs. 



Scutellaria, Skull-cap. 



