(Vor. 11 
260 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | 
66. M. deflexus Wats. in Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 84. 1889; 
Coville, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 171. 1893. 
M. barbatus Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sei. 1: 9. 1884. 
Dwarf, sparsely puberulent annuals; stem 3-8 cm. high, erect, 
simple or sometimes closely branched; leaves few, sessile, ob- 
lanceolate or linear, 4-17 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, obtuse, more 
or less glandular-pubescent, the basal leaves spatulate and short- 
petioled; pedicels filiform, at least twice as long as the leaves, 
often enlarged at the base and spreading horizontally in mature 
specimens; calyx minutely glandular-puberulent, 4 mm. long, 
oblong-campanulate, reddish, the ribs more or less thickened and 
sometimes colored red or yellow, 5 mm. long in fruit, slightly 
distended by the mature capsule, teeth ovate, rounded, one-fourth 
as long as the calyx, obtuse, mucronate, or sometimes longer 
and acute; corolla bilabiate, 1-1.5 cm. long, slender, tubular- 
funnelform, tube yellow, twice as long as the calyx, throat short 
and broad, with long hairs scattered over the inner surface, 
lobes unequal, narrow, bifid or deeply emarginate, the upper 1р 
deep reddish-purple, erect, usually longer than the spreading 
lower lip, the latter yellow and more or less spotted or streaked 
with red or the corolla occasionally yellow streaked with red; 
stamens flattened, the longer pair slightly exserted, sometimes 
with pubescent filaments, anthers glabrous; style glabrous, yel- 
low, exserted, stigma-lips unequal, rounded, fimbriate; capsule 
oblong, included, placentae separating nearly to the middle; 
seeds favose-areolate, about as long as broad. А 
Distribution: in granite sand around meadows in the high 
Sierra Nevada Mts., Tulare Co., California. 
Specimens examined: 
California: drier edges of low wet places in Long Meadow, Tulare 
Co., June, 1886, Edw. Palmer 176 (G, түре, and M); in sandy 
soil around meadow, Long Meadow, Tulare Co., 14 June, p 
Hall & Babcock 5107 (С, М, В. Mt., Ore., Stanford, 81 
Pomona); near Brown Meadow, Tulare Co., 7000 ft. alt., 
18 June, 1904, Hall & Babcock 5155 (G, Calif., and Stanford): 
Templeton Mt., near Kern Peak, 8700 ft. alt., 5 July, 191% 
Jepson 4968 (Cornell and Calif.) ; Rock Creek near Mt. 
ney, 9600 ft. alt., 20 July, 1912, Jepson 5038 (Calif.); Cotton" 
