304 SCROPHULARIACE^. 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 liead. — Bot. Calif, 

 i. 622. — Soda spring, Kern Co., Rothrock. 

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

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

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

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

 long. — Proc. 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. — Mendocmo Co., fio/anc?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 cinereous-puber- 

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

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

 their summit : 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. 



•t— -)— Stamens 2 : anthers 1-ceIled : filaments nearlv glabrous : posterior division of calyx only 

 2-nerved, 2-cleft at apex : seeds few, minuteh^ favosa. 



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-clef t : corolla purplish, half inch long: capsule 8-seeded. — 

 Benth. 1. c. 597; Watson, Bot. King, 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. L c — S. Idaho and N. 

 Nevada, Nuttall, Watson. 



§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 purplish 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-celIed: filaments glabrous : seeds somewhat 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-fourths inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 



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



Wrifjhf, Greene. 



* * Stamens 4: anthers of longer stamens 2-celled, of the shorter with only the small lower cell: 

 filaments c;l;ibvoiis or nearly so: leaves and even I)racts all entire, pale or canescent; lower ones 

 linear; upper, and especially the loosely imbricated bracts, lanceolate or broader and concave or 

 somewhat conduplicate : inflorescence 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, canescent 

 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. Parryi, Watson in Am. Naturalist, ix. 346. — 

 S. W. Utah, Parry, Palmer. 



* * * Stamens 4: anthers all 2-celled: filaments villous: leaves and bracts mostly 3-5-parted 

 into linear-filiform divisions : habit and inflorescence of § Adcnosteyin. 



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

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

 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, Parry, Slier. S. W. Colorado, 

 Braiideyee, 



