COULTER'S SNAPDRAGON (Antirrhinum Coulteridnum, 

 Benth). Flowers white, tinged with purple, the lower lip 

 with its large palate forming most of the corolla, borne in a 

 close spike 2 to 10 inches long. Leaves linear or oval, distant 

 from one another. A stout, erect annual, 2 to 4 feet high, 

 hairy above, and remarkable for producing from the leaf axils 

 and the lower part of the flower spikes, long, threadlike, twist- 

 ing branchlets which curl about adjacent shrubbery and by 

 which the plant is disposed to climb. Blooming from May to 

 July, on dry hillsides throughout Southern California. 



This interesting plant is another to commemorate in its 

 specific name that botanical pioneer of the Pacific Coast, 

 Dr. Thomas Coulter. A slender branched variety, with 

 purple flowers scattered along the stems, and the twisting 

 branchlets often springing from the base of the flowers, has 

 been considered worthy of specific distinction and is called 

 Antirrhinum vagans, Gray "the wandering" an allusion 

 to the branchlets twisting about for a support to grasp. It is 

 common throughout Western California. 



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