506 SCROPHULARIACEX COLUINSIA 
the lower lip purple, the others dark blue: gland very small, slightly stip- 
itate: seeds not wing-marg ned. On gravelly banks and open places along 
the Columbia and Willamette rivers in Oregon and Washington. 
C. parviflora Dougl. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1802. Glabrous or minutely 
puberulent: stem slender and weak 2-2U inches long, branching from near 
the base; the branches weak and straggling: leaves oblong to lanceolate, 
6-12 lines long the lower ones opposite and rather long petioled ; the upper 
ones in whorls of 3-5 and sessile or nearly so, all entire or sparsely toothed : 
peduncles solitary, or above 3-5 in the whorls, 6-18 lines long reflexed in 
fruit: calyx-lobes triangular-subulate, very acute, a line or more long: co- 
rolla blue and white, 3-4 lines long, the throat about as long as the lips, not 
very strongly saccate: gland small, capitate, short-stipitate : capsule globose, 
a little shorter than the calyx: seeds thickish, not margined. Common 
in moist places, Brit. Columbia to California, Arizona and Michigan. 
C. Torreyi Gray Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 378. Viscid-glandular: stem 
slender, 2-4 inches high, divergently branched: leaves thickish, the lower 
ones orbicular to oblong, the blade 4-6 lines long, on petioles as long as 
the blade: upper ones oblong to linear, 8-12 lines long, short-petioled; the 
sh ade ones reduced to subulate bracts: flowers numerous, on slender 
peduncles 6-8 lines long: calyx about 2 lines long, cleft to the middle, the 
lobes broadly subulate and acute: corolla blue and white; the lips as long 
as the tube and strongly saccate throat: peduncles reflexed in fruit: cap- 
sule ovoid, about equalling the calyx: seeds oblong, nearly terete. In . 
open places in the higher parts of the Siskiyou and Sierra Nevada Mountains. 
* * Peduncles erect in fruit: seeds meniscoidal, acute-inargined. 
C. multiflora. Scurfy-puberulent: stem erect, with rather numerous. 
ascending or spreading branches, 6-12 inches high: lower leaves obovate 
to spatulate, petioled; those of the middle of the stem and branches linear- 
oblong, sessile, 12-i8 lines long; the uppermost ones reduced to small 
linear-lanceolate or almost filiform bracts: flowers only in the upper axils, 
very numerous, in dense whorls: peduncles filiform, 4-10 lines long, erect 
in frnit: calyx-lobes triangular subulate, very acute, about 2 lines long, 
nearly thrice as long as the campanulate tube: corolla about 6 lines long, 
the throat saccate at base, light blue; the lips blueand white. In damp 
places, Willamette Valley, Oregon. 
C. pusilla. C. grandiflora var. pusilla Gray. Stem 2-6 inches high, 
sparingly branched below: lower leaves orbicular to obovate or spatulate, 
petioled, entire or coarsely toothed; upper ones oblong, 6-12 lines long, 
sessile : flowers numerous, in the upper axils only; peduncles 4-6 lines long : 
calyx-lobes acuminate-triangular, longer than the tube: corolla 3-4 lines 
long, blue and violet, the throat saccate and as broad as long. In open 
places, Brit. Columbia to California, west of the Cascade Mountains. 
C. sparsiflora F. & M. Ind. Sem. Petrop. ii, 33, 1835. Glabrous 
throughout: stem slender, simple or sparingly branched from the base, 4-10 
inches high : lower leaves orbicular to oblong. petioled; upper ones oblon 
to lanceolate, sessile, 4-8 lines long, all opposite and more or less toothe 
or entire: peduncles usually solitary, in the axils of the upper leaves, 6-12 
lines long, erect in fruit: calyx-lobes linear, acute, slightly unequal, longer 
than the capsule: corolla 4-6 lines long, violet, the saccate throat very 
oblique but not transverse; lower lip but little if any longer than the up- 
per: filaments hirsute below: gland sessile, elongated-subulate: seeds 
acute-margined or narrowly winged. In moist or wet rocky places, Ore- 
gon to California’ 
C. glandulosa. Glandular-puberulent above; somewhat cinereous be- 
low: stem stoutish, erect, sparingly branched above, 6-10 inches high: 
lowest pair of leaves spatulate, 6-8 lines long, short-petioled; upper ones 
