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250 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
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Specimens examined: 
California: Hetch-Hetchy Valley, June, 1900, Bioletti (Calif. 
and Calif. Acad., TYPE) ; abundant in wet places along the road- 
side, Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 10 June, 1916, А. L. Grant 807 
(С, М, and Calif.); Hog Ranch, above Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 
4700 ft. alt., 14 June, 1917, A. L. Grant 967 (G, Cornell, U. $., 
M, СаШ., and Calif. Acad.); near the saw mill below Hog 
Ranch, Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 16 June, 1917, A. L. Grant 995 
(M); Hazel Green, Coulterville, Yosemite Road, 5 July, 
1896, Jepson 72m (Calif.); Malones, Mariposa Co., 30 May, 
1883, Congdon (С); Malones, 17 Мау, 1902, Congdon (U. 8.); 
Hoeltzel's, Mariposa Co., 3 May, 1893, Congdon (Stanford); 
Stockton Creek, Mariposa Co., 14 June, 1903, Congdon (М); 
Snow Creek, Mariposa Co., 1 June, 1890, Congdon (С). 
The corky ribs and more acute calyx-lobes immediately separ- 
ate this species from M. Palmeri with which it has been confused. 
A number of specimens of а white form havihg two yellow 
blotehes below the lower lip were collected near Hetch-Hetehy 
Valley by А. L. Grant, no. 995. These grew in two patches with 
the typical form along the roadside near the saw mill below Hog 
Ranch, Hetch-Hetchy Valley. 
57. M. Palmeri Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 82. 1876; Syn. 
ЕІ. №. Am. 2!:278. 1878, ей. 2, and Suppl. 451. 1886; Greenem 
Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 121. 1885; Hall in Univ. Calif. Publ. 
Bot. 1: 117. 1902; Eastwood, Fl. South Fork King’s River, 
Sierra Club Publ. 27: 67. 1902. 
À sparingly glandular-pubescent annual, stem erect, 8-15 cm. 
high, simple or branched; leaves linear or oblanceolate, 1.3-1.7 
cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, entire or occasionally denticulate, 
upper sessile, lower sometimes short-petioled; pedicels slender, 
much longer than the leaves, more or less spreading in maturity; 
calyx cylindrical, 7-8 mm. long, slightly angled, reddish, 8 
or minutely puberulent, slightly accrescent and not inflated, 
9-10 mm. long when mature, teeth 1-1.5 mm. long, b 
obtuse, mucronate, ciliate; corolla 1.5-2 cm. long, funnelform 
tube slightly exserted, throat deep reddish-purple, with a large 
yellow patch, streaked with red, below the lower lip or more 
