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striking annual, which grows on warm, gravelly slopes in 

 Yosemite Valley (Indian Canon), at Wawona, and elsewhere 

 at moderate altitudes. It is more common in the foothills. 



18. M. angustatus Gray. Leaves densely clustered at base, 

 linear, 1 in. or less long, entire, hairy, hiding the calyx of the 

 nearly sessile flowers. Corolla 1J4 to \ l / 2 in. long, with 

 slender tube and funnelform throat; upper lip purple, lower 

 lip golden yellow and purple-dotted. {Eunanus pulchellus 

 Drew.) 



The pygmy plants which represent this species are only 

 2 or 3 in. high, and most of this height is due to the slender 

 flowers, which grow even from the lowest leaf-axils. They 

 are found in meadows from Lake Eleanor and the Hog 

 Ranch Road to Yosemite. 



19. M. exilis Durand. Annual leafy plant with small 

 flowers on long pedicels from all but the lower leaf-axils, 

 softly villous throughout, 3 in. to 1 ft. high. Leaves oblong 

 or lanceolate, entire, sessile, the larger 1 to 1^2 in. long. 

 Calyx deeply cleft into 5 unequal lanceolate lobes. Corolla 

 small, its lobes nearly equal, yellow, each of the lower lobes 

 often with a brown spot. — Gravelly soil in Yosemite Valley 

 and below. 



5. ILYSANTHES. False Pimpernel. 

 1. I. anagallidea Rob. A smooth erect annual, 3 to 9 in. 

 high. Leaves sessile, ovate or oblong, % to Y^ in. long. Pedi- 

 cels spreading, longer than the leaves. Corolla pale blue or 

 "purplish," scarcely Y A in. long. — Wet places in Bridal Veil 

 Meadows; of wide distribution. 



6. VERONICA. Speedwell. 

 Annual and perennial herbs of meadows and moist places, 

 with white, pale-blue, or purplish small flowers. Leaves 

 mostly opposite, the upper sometimes alternate. Corolla 

 rotate, with very short tube and 4 lobes, one of them smaller 

 than the others. Stamens only 2. 



Flowers in loose racemes which spring from the axils of 

 opposite leaves; perennials. 

 Leaves short-petioled, ovate or oblong, obtuse at each end. 1. V . americana. 

 Leaves sessile, narrowly lanceolate, tapering to each end. 2. V. scutellata. 

 Flowers in simple terminal racemes, each flower from the 

 axil of a bract. 

 Stems several, from perennial rootstocks; leaves ovate 

 or roundish. 

 Capsule obscurely notched at summit 3. V. alpina. 



