Conobea. SCROPHULARIACE^. 279 



-1— -) 1^ Scapose, i.e. peduncles scape-like: leaves 3-5-ncrvecl, sessile. 



M. primuloides, Benth. Perennial by filiform stolons : leaves all radical in a rosulate 

 tuft, or crowded on an upright stem of 1 to 3 inches in height, soft-villous when young, 

 glabrate with age, from obovate to oblanceolatc, sparsely and sharply serrate or nearly 

 entire, from 5 to 16 lines long: filiform and often solitary pedicels (1 to 4 inches long) and 

 cylindraceous calyx glabrous : corolla golden-yellow, funnelform, a quarter to three-fourths 

 inch long. — Scroph^ Ind. 1. c, & DC. 1. c. ; Kegel, Gartenfl. 1872. t. 739 ; Gray, 1. c. — 

 "Wet soil, through the Sierra Nevada, California, at 6-10,000 feet, extending to the Blue 

 Mountains of Oregon. Like the other species varies greatly in size of flower as well as in 

 stature. 



§ 4. MiMUi.OiDES, Gray. Annual, with corolla of Enmimnlus, capsule with 

 the divided placentae of Eananus, but the calyx canipanulate and 5-cleft ; its tube 

 not prismatic nor even carinate-angled, but almost nerveless ; its lobes plane : 

 stigma bilamcllar. — Herpestis § Mimidoides, Benth. 



M. pilosus, Watson. A span to a foot high, at length much branched, leafy, soft-vil- 

 lous and slightly viscid, rarely glabrate, tlowering from near the base : leaves lanceolate or 

 narrowly oblong, sessile, entire, obscurely 3-ncrved at base; the lower surpassing and the 

 upper hardly equalling the pedicels : calyx oblique at orifice ; the tube somewhat G-suIcate 

 below the sinuses ; the posterior tooth equalling and the others shorter than the tube ; all 

 oblong or ovate, rather shorter tlian the bright yellow (3 or 4 lines long) rather obscurely 

 bilabiate corolla: lobes of the latter nearly equal, usually a pair of brown-purple spots on 

 the lower: capsule oblong-ovate, acute. — Bot. King, 22-5; Gray, I.e. ^T. <°.r///s, Durand 

 in Pacif. R. Rep. v. 12, t. 12. Herpestis (Miimdoides) pilosa, Benth. in Comp. Bot. Mag. 

 ii. 57, & DC. 1. c. 394. — Gravelly soil along streams, nearly throughout California, and 

 along the borders of Nevada to Arizona. 



14. STEMODIA, L. (Name shortened by Linnajus from P. Browne's 

 Sfemodiacra^ meaning stamens with two tips, in reference to the disjoined stipi- 

 tate anther-cells.) — Chiefly tropical species, herbaceous or slightly shrubby, one 

 reaching our borders. 



S. durantifolia, S"Wartz. Annual with indurated base, or sometimes perennial, viscid- 

 pubescent : leaves either opposite or 3-4-nate, from oblong- to linear-lanceolate, serrate or 

 denticulate, narrowed below and with somewhat dilated partly clasping base: inflorescence 

 spiciform, leafy below: calyx 2-bracteolate : corolla purplish, quarter inch long. — Obs. 

 p. 240; Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 383. Capruria clitmiilifolia, L. Sleinodia verticillaris, Link; 

 Keichenb. Ic. E.xot. ii. t. 149. — Wet gromids, S. Arizona. (Trop. Am.) 



15. CONOBEA, Aublet. (Unexplained name.) — Low or spreading an- 

 nuals, all American ; with opposite leaves, and small flowers on axillary pedicels, 

 2-bracteolate under the calyx. — Our species belong to 



§ 1. LicucosPORA. Leaves pinnately 3-7 -parted into cuneate-linear divisions : 

 anther-cells completely disjoined but contiguous: seeds striate-costate. — Leuco- 

 spora, Nutt., with Schisfophrarpna, Benth. in Endl. Gen. & DC. Prodr. x. 392. 



C. multifida, Benth. 1- c. A span high, diffusely branched, minutely viscid-pubescent: 

 pedicels as long as the greenish-white and purplish corolla: sepals very slender : capsule 

 ovate: seeds small, white, longitudinally costate. — Caprarin mnltljula, Michx. Fl. ii. 22, 

 t. 35. Stemodia multifidd, Sj)reng. Syst. ii. 811. Leucospora multijidn, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. 

 Philad. vii. 87. Sutcra multifida, Walp. Rep. iii. 271. — Along streams and shores, Oliio to 

 Illinois, Arkansas, and Texas : also adventive below Philadelphia. 



C. intermedia, Gray. More viscid-pubescent : pedicels shorter than the calyx : sepals 

 narrowly linear-lanceolate; the posterior one rather longer: corolla larger (3 lines long): 

 capsule ovoid-lanceolate: seeds larger, spirally costate. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 117. — New 

 Mexico and Arizona, Wri^jht, Rothrock. 



