304 SCROPHULARIACEiE. Cordylanthus. 



Var. brevibracteatus, Gray, is glabrous up to the floral leaves, these hispid-cili- 

 ate with short bristles, also shorter and fewer, as are the flowers in the head. — Bot. Calif. 

 1. 622. — Soda spring, Kern Co., Rotliruck. 



C. pilosus, Gray. Paniculately branched, 2 to 4 feet high, soft-villous throughout, 

 soniewliat viscid, no rigid hairs: leaves linear, all but the floral entire; these commonly 

 3-parted and with eniarginate or callous-o-toothed tip : flowers few in the irregular termi- 

 nal clusters, or some lateral and solitary ; corolla yellowish or purplish, half inch or more 

 long. — I'roc. Am. Acad. vii. 383, & Bot. Calif, i. 581.— W. California, in open dry ground 

 from Santa Clara Co. northward. 



Var. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Lower, less pilose, more viscid or glandular : flowers 

 all scattered. — Mendocino Co., Z)o/aHc/er. Also from Plumas Co. to Tuolumne Co. in the 

 foothills of the Sierra. 



C. tenuis. Gray, 1. c. Effusely paniculate, a foot or two high, minutely cinercous-puber- 

 ulent, at suuunit sometimes more pubescent and glandular : leaves very narrowly linear, 

 entire: flowers scattered along the almost filiform branches, or some loosely clustered at 

 their suuunit: flowers as of the preceding or smaller and the upper sepal narrower. — Dry 

 ground, California from the mountains of Mendocino Co. to Lake Tahoe, and adjacent 

 borders of Nevada. 



•i— -1— Stamens 2: anthers 1-celled: filaments nearly glabrous : posterior division of calyx only 

 2-iicrved, '2-clett at apex: seeds tew, minutely favo.se. 



C. capitatus, Nutt. A -foot or two high, paniculately much branched, soft-pubescent 

 and cinereous : leaves very narrowly linear, or those subtending the several-flowered ter- 

 minal head broader and 3-5-cleft : corolla purplish, half inch long : capsule 8-seeded. — 

 Benth. 1. c. 507; Wat.son, Bot. King, 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. L c — S. Idaho and N. 

 Nevada, Nuttull, Waltton. 



§3. Hemistegia, Gray, I.e. Calyx monophyllous ; the anterior division 

 wanting : flowers strictly sessile in the axil of a clasping bract or leaf, ebracteolate : 

 corolla ptiri)lish or yellowish: no callous gland at the tip of leaves: herbage not 

 glandular : seeds (those of C. maritimus not seen mature) rather numerous, 

 scarious-appendaged ; the coat cellular-favose. 



* Stamens 2: anthers 2-ceiled: filaments glabrous : seeds somewliat reniform. 

 C. mollis. Gray. Barely a foot high, rather stout, much branched, villous-hirsute : 

 leaves and bracts oblong-linear, obtuse, entire or the upper laciniate-toothed or pinnatifid : 

 flowers in a thickish short spike : corolla three-fourtiis inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 384, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California, around Vallejo, 

 Wrif/lit, Greene. 



* * Stamens 4: anthers of Innijer stamens 2-eened, of tlie shorter witli oidy tlic small lower cell: 

 filaments Ljlabrons or nearlv so: leaves and even bracts all entire, pale or eanescent: lower one.s 

 linear; upiier, and especiallv the loosely imbricated bracts, lanceolate or broader and concave or 

 somewhat condnplicate : intlorescenee at first capitate, becoming siiort-spicate. 



C. maritimus, Nutt. 1- c. A span or two high, corymbosely branched, cinereous pubes- 

 cent: leaves glabrate, slightly fleshy: pairs of filaments very unequal. —Gray, 1. c. — 

 California, in sandy salt marshes, from San Diego to San Francisco Bay. 



C. Canescens, Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, corymbosely much branched, eanescent 

 with soft and short villous pubescence: uppermost leaves and bracts from oblong- to 

 ovate-lanceolate : smaller filaments sometimes obscurely hairy. — Saline soil, Sierra Nevada, 

 on the eastern border of California to Salt Lake, Utah. 



Var. Parryi. A slender form, with narrower bracts and sparser flowers : smaller 

 filaments with some scattered hairs. — C. Parri/i, Watstm in Am. Naturalist, ix. 346. — 

 S. W. Utah, Parn/, Palmer. 



* * * Stamens 4: anthers all 2-pelled: filaments villous: leaves and bracts mostly 3-o-parted 

 into hnear-filiform divisions : habit and inflorescence of § Adenostefjin. 



C. Kingii, "Watson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid-pubescent or villous : 

 leaves 1 or 2 inches long: flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the sunmiit 

 of the slender branchlets: calyx 4-6-nerved : corolla less than an inch long, purplish. — 

 Bot. King, 233, t. 22. — W. Nevada, Watson. S. Utah, Parrij, Siler. S. W. Colorado, 

 Brande(jee, 



