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throat ; lower lip much mflated, the 3 sacs as broad as long. 4 

 mm.: stigma included at first, later exserted, unequally 2-lobed : 

 ovary glabrous, ovate in outline : seeds numerous, irregularly 

 obovate, with white, cellular coats. 



Collected by H. E. Brown at Pitt River, Shasta County, Cali- 

 fornia, no, 220, The best specimens are those of Brown and Hel- 

 ler, 710. S459 (*yP^)» collected in Berry Cafion near Clear Creek, 

 Butte County, California. There are specimens in the herbarium 

 of the California Academy of Sciences from Mrs. C. C. Bruce, col- 

 lected at Little Chico, no. 2088 ; also from Big Meadows, collected 



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by Mrs. Austin in 1882. 



"* Orthocarpus noctuinus sp. nov. 



Annual, about 2 dm. high, slender and with slender, upwardly 

 spreading, somewhat cymose branches, cinereous-puberulent : 

 leaves narrow, attenuate to a filiform apex, simple or with two fili-^ 

 form divisions, longest leaves about 6 cm.: inflorescence of maim 

 stem an oblong spike with lowest flowers scattered, that of the 

 branches becoming subcapitate ; pedicels scarcely evident ; bracts 

 crimson-tipped, with 3-5 filiform divisions shorter than or equal- 

 ing the calyx, the broad lower part 3 -nerved : calyx with four 

 narrowly linear divisions, deeply cleft on the dorsal side, front about 

 half as long as the slender purplish tube : corolla with long tube, 

 12 mm. below the swell of the throat, woolly, tinged with rose- 

 color, throat white; galea broadly subulate, straight, rose-colored, 

 pubescent ; lower lip ventricose, trisaccate, each sac with 2 folds, 

 yellow banded with crimson, and with crimson dots in the inter- 

 vals between the folds, the 3 involute lobes colored like the galea 

 and surpassing it, the middle lobe longest, narrowly deltoid, mu- 

 cronate : filaments and style glabrous : stigma globose-capitate, 

 purplish-black : ovary linear-oblong. 



Collected by the author at Inverness, Marin County, California, 

 on the hills back of the settlement, May 6, 1901. It is near 0. 

 densiflonis Benth., but differs in its more loosely branched habit, 

 more slender stems, and longer flowers, and in the great length of 

 the lower lip. In 0. densiflorus the lower lip is shorter than the 

 galea and the spike Is more densely flowered. It is named be- 

 cause of the appearance of an owl produced by the markings on 



the corolla. 



densifli 



of the name owl's clover which has been applied to the latter 



species. 



