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232 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
broadly rounded ; capsule ovate, acute, as long as the calyx-tube, 
placentae adherent to the apex; seeds oval, favose-areolate. 
Distribution: known only from the type locality. 
Specimens examined: 
California: in wet soil along creek on Mt. Pleasant of the Spanish 
Peak Range, 6500 ft. alt., 16 July, 1900, Leiberg 5171 (U. 8, 
TYPE). 
48. M. alsinoides Dougl. in Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29. 1835; 
Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 100. 1840; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 
372. 1846; Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 98. 1876; Syn. Fl. 
N. Am. 2!: 277. 1878, ed. 2, and Suppl. 449. 1886; Greene in 
Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 115. 1885; Howell, Fl. Northwest Am. 
521. 1901; Piper, Fl. Northwest Coast, 324. 1915; Henry, 
Fl. Brit. Columbia, 269. 1915. | 
М. alsinoides 8 paniculatus Benth. Scroph. Ind. 29. 1840. 
Stems nearly glabrous, erect, simple or more often diffusely 
branched, 4-30 em. long; leaves broadly ovate or rhomboid- 
ovate, 2-6 em. long, 1-3 mm. wide, thin, glabrous, yellowish- 
green, irregularly dentate, 3-5-nerved, the base sometimes trun- 
eate but more often narrowed abruptly to the long-margined 
petiole, the latter at least as long as the blade; internodes and 
the erect or spreading filiform pedicels usually longer than the 
leaves; calyx 4-6 mm. long, narrow, oblong, minutely puberulent, 
plicate-angled, fruiting calyx 7-9 mm. long, not inflated, teeth 
unequal, the 2 lower ones truncate and longer than the 3 short 
triangular-acute or mucronate upper ones; corolla bilabiate, 
funnelform, 1-1.3 em. long, yellow, tube slightly exserted, lobes 
erose or emarginate, the middle lobe of the lower lip SP 
and nearly twice as long as the lateral lobes or the 2 erect upper 
ones and with a large reddish spot near its base; stamens glabrous 
the upper pair slightly exserted; style glabrous, exserted, stigma" 
lips unequal, oblong; capsule oblong-acuminate, usually slightly 
exserted, placentae adherent to the apex; seeds oblong, smooth. 
Distribution: in wet places from British Columbia to поёт 
California. 
Specimens ined: 
British Columbia: Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, 12 June, 1901, 
