TWO NEW CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. 17 
scarious; inner ones with ovate-oblong scarious limb narrowed 
to a broadly linear, green-herbaceous base. 
Common-in low thickets among the-coast hills about San 
Diego, according to Prof/Greene., Distinguished readily from 
G. leucocephalum by its suffrutéscent character, its very dif- 
ferent leaves, and dense glandular indument. Its green- 
herbaceous inner bracts and peculiar spicy odor are also very 
characteristic. The description is drawn up from dried 
specimens from San Diego and from a plant growing in the 
Garden of Native Plants at the University of California. 
Collinsia Franciscana. From 4 to 2$ ft. high; low and 
erect or tall and reclining on neighboring plants: glabrous 
below, minutely viscid pubescent above: leaves ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, the upper sessile, the lower shortly petioled: 
flowers from 1 to 3 in the axils of the leaves and bracts, or 
5 to 6 in the axils of the uppermost bracts: pedicels from 
slightly shorter to two or three times as long as the calyx 
lobes, much elongated in fruit: corolla 8 to 12 lines long; 
upper lip white, purple spotted at base; throat a fourth 
longer than wide, closed at the mouth and almost glabrous 
within or scantily hispidulous; upper filaments slightly 
bearded; gland subulate, the abortive anther yellowish and 
glabrous, the filamentous portion thicker, about a third as 
long, white and hispidulous: calyx lobes but slightly exceed- 
ing the ovary: seeds 8 to 12 in each cell, rugulose. 
Abundant in several localities in the San Francisco penin- 
sula; hitherto passed over as C. bicolor which it resembles 
in its large size and showy flowers. In character, however, 
it approaches more nearly to C. sparsitflora. It is in a way 
intermediate between the long-pedicelled, few-flowered group 
and that with many and sessile flowers. From C. bicolor it is 
readily distinguished by its accrescent pedicels, closed throat 
and bluish color, while its large and sometimes numerous 
flowers, its succulent texture and numerous seeds, make it 
impossible to confase it with any species in the long-pedi- 
celled group. 
