6O BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION. 



WILD VERBENA. 



Abronia umbellata. Lam. 



Perennial, prostrate, slender, viscidly puberulent, the stems often elongated, one to 

 three feet high ; leaves nearly glabrous, ovate to narrowly oblong, one to one and one- 

 half inches long, attenuate into a slender petiole, obtuse, the margin often somewhat 

 sinuate ; peduncles two to six inches long; involucral bracts, small, narrowly lanceolate, 

 two to three lines long, ten to fifteen-flowered ; perianth rose-colored, six to eight lines 

 long, with emarginate lobes ; fruit four to five lines long, nearly glabrous, the body 

 oblong, attenuate at each end ; the thin wings nearly as long, rounded, broadest above 

 and often truncate, narrowing downward to the base of the fruit ; akene one and one-half 

 lines long (Brewer & Watson). 



BLUE-BELLS. 

 Pliacelia Wkitlavia. Gray. 



About a foot high, loosely branching, hirsute and glandular, .eaves ovate or deltoid, 

 obtusely and incisely toothed, longer than the petiole ; raceme loose and elongating ; 

 tube of the violet (or rarely white) corolla an inch or so long, twice or thrice the length 

 of the rounded lobes and of the narrow calyx lobes ; stamens conspicuously exserted 

 (Brewer & Watson). 



SNAP-DRAGON. 



Mimulus lutens. Linn. 



Erect or diffuse, from a fibrous annual root, and commonly perennial by short stolons, 

 glabrous or merely puberulent ; the ordinary erect form a foot or two or even three or four 

 feet high ; leaves ovate, oval or roundish, sometimes cordate, several-nerved from base 

 or near it, sharply and irregularly dentate, or the lower occasionally lyrate-laciniate ; the 

 upper sessile ; the floral becoming small and bract-like, often connate ; peduncles 

 becoming racemose, equaling or shorter than the flower; calyx becoming ovate inflated 

 in fruit and the upper tooth conspicuously largest ; corolla from one and one-fourth to 

 one and three-fourths of an inch long, yellow, often dotted within and sometimes blotched 

 with brown-red or purple (Brewer & Watson). 



