Or:hocarpus. SCROPHULARIACEiE. 299 



C. breviflora, Gray. Barely span high, more pubescent : lower leaves often entire and 

 upper only 3-5-i)artcd, an inch or so long : bracts of the dense spike more dilated, not sur- 

 passing the flowers : calj'x ovoid-oblong ; its lobes lanceolate : corolla little exserted, less 

 than inch long: lip with somewhat callous oblong pliccC or saccate keels about the length 

 of the oblong obtuse lobes. — Am. Jour. Sci. 1. c. 338. — Rocky Mountains of Coloi'ado and 

 Wyoming, in the alpine region, Nutkill, Parr;/, &c. 



^ = Very glabrous up to tiie merely pubescent naked dense spike: cauline leaves all entire: 

 bracts shorter than the tlowers, dilated and ;5-ck'ft; the lobes with petaloid yellowish tips. 



C. linoides. Stems strict, a foot high, rigid, branching at summit, very smooth, as also 

 the rigid leaves (these 1 or 2 inches long, a line or less wide) : calyx and corolla nearly of 

 C. brerijiora, the former with narrower lobes and the latter only half inch long. — Clover 

 Mountains, Nevada, Watson. In Bot. King, included under " C. pallida, var." 



++ ++ Li|) of corolla very short, globular-saccate and callous, and widi very short o\'ate lobes: 

 anterior cleft of ealyx deeper. 



C. flava, ^AT'atson. A foot high, with numerous slender stems, cinereous-puberulent, at 

 least above, and the elongated spike more pubescent : leaves entire or the uj)per with one 

 or two lobes: bracts 3-cleft and with dilated base; the upper and calyx yellowish : corolla 

 liardly an inch long; narrow galea little shorter than the tube. — Bot. King, 230. — 

 Mountains of E. Utah and Wyoming, in and near the Uintas, Watson, Porter. 



31. ORTHOCARPUS, Nutt. C0i>6(K, upright, and y.uQm)^', fruit; the 

 capsule not oblique as in MeJampyrum.) — Low herbs, almost all annual (W. 

 North American and one Chilian) ; with mainly alternate entire or o-o-parted 

 and laciniate leaves ; the tipper passing into bracts of the dense spike and not 

 rarely colored, as also the calyx-lobes ; the corolla yellow, or white with purple 

 or rose-color, often much surpassing the calyx. Seeds numerotis or rather few. 

 FI. spring and summer. — Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 535 ; Watson, Bot. King, 

 230, 457 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 575. 



§ 1. Castilleioides, Gray. Corolla with lip (i.e. lower lip) simply or some- 

 what triply saccate, and with conspicuous mostly erect lobes ; the galea (i. e. 

 upper lip) either broadish or narrow : anthers all 2-celled : bracts with more or 

 less colored tips : seeds with very loose and arilliform cellular-favose coat. — 

 Bot. Calif. 1. c. 



* Root percnnidl: lips of the short and yellowish corolla more equal and less dissimilar than in 

 any of the following ; lower one rather obscurely saccate ; galea broadish, obtuse : filaments gla- 

 brous. Transition to Custilleia. 



O. pallescens, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent, not hairy: leaves .3-5-parted into linear 

 lobes, or the lower entire : bracts similar with dilated l)ase, or upper with shorter obscurely 

 whitish or yellowish lobes: calyx deeply 2-cleft, with broad loljes merely 2-cleft at apex: 

 corolla over half inch long. —Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, xxxiv. 339, & Broc. Am. Acad. vii. 

 384, in part, but only as to Nuttall's Euc/troma pallescens in herb. 0. Parri/i, Gray in Am. 

 Naturalist, viii. 214. — Rocky Mountains of N. W. Wyoming to E. Oregon, Nuttall, Parry, 

 Cusick. 



O. pilosus, "Watson. From soft-vlllous to hirsute-pubescent, a span or two high, very 

 leafy : leaves of the preceding or more divided : bracts usually more dilated and colored, 

 from yellow or whitish to dull crimson : calyx-segments deeply cleft or parted ; the lobes 

 linear. — Bot. King, 231 ; Gray, Bot. Calif.' i. 570. 0. pallescens, Gray, 1. c, except as to 

 Nuttall's plant. — Sierra Nevada, California, at 5-10,000 feet, to Oregon. Varies with lax 

 and with rather rigid leaves, with soft-villous and with hirsute pubescence. &c. 



* * Koot annual : fdaments glabrous : fjalea narrow and nearly straiccht, laneoolate-trianijular or 

 broadly subulate, naked: lip moderately ventricose pnd somewhat plicate-trisaceate for its whole 

 length; the teeth or lobes conspicuous, erect, oblong-linear: capsule oblong or oval. 



O. attenuatus, Gray. Erect, slender, a span or two high, hirsute-pubescent above : 

 leaves linear and attenuate, often with a pair of filiform lobes: spike virgate : lower 

 flowers scattered : bracts with slender lobes barely white-tipped : corolla narrow throughout, 



