chned narrow throat which is a little saccate at base. Tli 

 hianifestly is closely, allied to C. caliosa Parish, which h 

 thick and fleshy leaves, elliplical-oblong in outline, which a 

 never reduced to filiform or linear bracts above, though tl 

 bracts are much reduced ; the pedicels and calyx are sparse 

 S:landular ; calyx lobes triangular-ovate, longer than the tub 

 but calyx in fruit only 3 lines long and hemispherical ; pedice 

 s^tont and 4-7 lines fong in fruit; flowers about 3 lines Ion 

 with nearly obovate lobes; calyx does not exceed the frui 

 growinrr plants do not look much alike. Tehachapi, Califo 

 nia, 1903. 



Collinsia parviflcra ■v'ar. minin?a (Nuttall Jour. Phil. Ac. 



the 

 thin, sparsely dentate, long-petioled. 

 the blade 6-9 lines long; upper stem leaves linear, I-l^^ inches 

 long, 2-3 lines wide, sessile, obtuse; the middle leaves are 

 3-6-toothed towards the tip ; the uppermost leaves reduced, but 

 T^ever bract-like; whole plant smooth; filiform pedicels 3-4 

 lines long in flower and 9-12 lines long in fruit; calyx cleft 

 nearly to the base with linear-subulate lobes 4 lines long ; 

 corolla white or yellowish white with speckled upper lobes, 

 saccate at the sessile base and outline obliquely ovate to the 

 ^^mb, the throat about two-thirds as long as the sepa s and 

 contracted at mouth, the corolla lobes 3 lines long, longer 

 than the throat, the lateral one oblanceolate and equaled by 

 the broader upper lobes and all 4 lobes fully a line longer than 

 the hairy keel; corolla 4-5 lines long, not greatly surpassing 

 the calvx lobes, declined; capsules spherical about 2 Imes- 

 long; some of the lowest leaves occasionally 3 lobed; pedice. r- 

 one to each axil. This would appear to be between C. arvensis 



