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base. Ovary ovoid; style slender, deciduous; stigma 

 peltate or slightly 2-lobed. 



1. T. fasciculata (Nutt.) Britton. Stem erect, 5-10 cm. high, 

 densely glandular-pubescent, bearing several scales and 3-15 naked 

 1-flowered peduncles, 2.5-10 cm. long; calyx broadly campanulate, 

 6-10 mm. long, its lobes triangular-lanceolate or triangular-ovate, 

 acute, equaling or shorter than the tube; corolla about 2 cm. long, 

 purplish-yellow, puberulent within; the curved tube 3 times as 

 long as the limb; the lobes oblong, obtuse. {Aphyllon fasciculatum 

 Gray.) 



Occasional in rather dry ground in the San Gabriel and Santa 

 Ana Mountains; growing on the roots of various shrubs. May- 

 July. 



2. OROBANCHE L. 



Glandular-pubescent, erect, simple or branched herbs, 

 parasitic on the roots of various plants, with scattered 

 scales, and spicate or racemose perfect bracted and some- 

 times bracteolate flowers. Calyx split both above and 

 below, nearly or quite to the base, the divisions 2-cleft 

 or rarely entire, or more or less unequally 2-5-toothed. 

 Corolla oblique, strongly 2-lipped; upper lip erect, emar- 

 ginate or 2-lobed; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 

 included; anther-sacs mostly mucronate at the base. 

 Ovary ovoid; style slender, commonly persistent; stigma 

 peltate to funnelform, entire or slightly 2-lobed. 



1. O. calif omicimi C. & S. Viscid-pubescent; stems stout, 

 usually simple, 5-15 cm. high; flowers crowded in a dense raceme; 

 pedicels 2-4 or the lower sometimes 10 cm. long; bractlets close to 

 the calyx; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, about equaling the 

 yellowish or purplish corolla, this 2-2.5 cm. long; anthers glabrous 

 or slightly hairy. 



Elysian Park, Davidson, 



2. O. tuberosa (Gray) Heller. Pruinose-puberulent; stems 

 stout, with a thickened tuber-like base, 15 cm, high or less; spikes 

 dense, corymbose-glomerate at the summit of the thickened stem; 

 flowers subsessile or on short pedicels; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 equaling the corolla-tube; corolla yellowish, about 10-15 mm. long; 

 anthers glabrous. 



Echo Mountain among shrubs, Mc Clatchie. 



Family 96. PLANTAGINACEAE. 



Plantain Fajmily. 



Annual or perennial mostly acaulescent rarely stolon- 

 iferous herbs, with basal, in the caulescent species oppo- 



