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Irife'her on tlio corolla timn tho otlior : anthers rnmidrciiironii, tlimr two cells con- 

 fluent at tho apex into one. A gland at tho haso of the corolla on the upper side 

 answers to tho fifth stamen. Stylo (iliform : stigma small, entire or minutely 

 2-cleft. Capsule ovate or globose, at first sopticidal, but the valves soon 2-clcft. 

 Sce<ls few or several in each coll, aniphitropous and peltate ; the face concave. — 

 Winter annuals (all North American and mainly western) ; with Himplo opposite 

 sessile leaves, or the lowest petiolcd and the upper whorled, and usually handsome 

 flowers in their upper axils : pedicels solitary or cymosely umbellate-clustered, or in 

 whorls ; the upper tiers commonly naked by the diminution of the later leaves into 

 small bracts. Corolla blue, purple, or white, sometimes yellowish, commoiily two- 

 colored. The plants mostly spring from seed in autumn and flower early the next 



season. In garden cultivation the Californian species flower directly as annuals. 



The stamens and style not rarely rise out of the sac of the corolla into a more erect 

 position boforo all tho pollen is shod. — Cray, Prnc. Am. Acad. xi. 91. 



Tho short haso of tho corolla holow tho Imlgiup wo will cull i]w tube, nnd tho whole in natod 

 am l.ulginf5 poitio.i up to tho clH't, tho IhronL The little organ which ataiids in place of tlio 

 fifth stamen, wo call sunply the gland. ^ 



* Flozversshort-pedicened or nearly sessile, mostly 6 or more in each dose and ichor l- 

 like or head-like cluster, only the lowest clusters subtended by leaves, the others bit 

 small brads. 



■k- Corolla strongly declined ; the much inflated and saccate gibbous throat fully as 

 broad.^ as long and forming an obtuse or right angle tvith the very short proper tube: 

 gland short and small, sessile: upper pair of filaments viore or less bearded toivards 

 the base. 



I.e. bicolor, Benth. A foot or so high, from nearly glabrous to hirsute and 

 above somewhat viscid-hairy : leaves more or less toothed and oblong or lanceolate • 

 the upper usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a broad often subcordate and 

 nervose-veuied base : pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calvx : corolla 

 party-colored the lower bp violet or rose-purple and the upper paler or nearly white), 

 occasionally allw'hite; tho saccate throat very oblique to tho tube; tho rccurve.l- 

 aproading upper lip a little shorter than tho lower. — Hot. Reg t 17:14 • ]hit Y\ 

 Gard. ser. 2, t. 307 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3488. C. hderophylla, Graham in licit. Mag. t." 

 3695, tt form with 3-cleft lower loaves, whicli is rare. 



fli'r^ ni'i'l^°''' «"=•; foV"'.''"g,^!i'-o"gJ> ill tho woatorn part of tho State. A puro white- 

 S^^IJrt&frttfoVL"!^^^^^^ '^' ^''^ '^-^ ^«^''-) -•^''' ^^'- --t «1-T specie:, 



2. C. tinctoria, Hartweg. Foliage, <^c., like the preceding, above generally 

 more visc.d-inibescent : flowers almost sessile : lobes of the calyx linear or oblon/- 

 l.near, mostly obtuso : corolla yellowish, cream-color, or white, usually with smno 

 purple <!<; 3 or hneg ; the axis of tho strongly snccate-ventricoso throat at right 

 'Ztw%fi ito ^'V^^';''''^,5 the upper lip ami its lobes very short. - Benth. Bl. 

 Hartw. 328 (1849). G. barbata, Bosse in Verhand. Gartenb. Preuss. 1853, & Bot. 

 Zeit. xii. 905. C. septemnervia, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 224, lig. G9. 



Moist grounds and hanks of streams, along tlio western slopes of tl,e Sierra Neva.la and 

 through Its foo -h.lls. The yellowish or brownish and visei<lglnndulnr Sseenr; som^^^ 

 ¥}Te nntff '"^T1'?'^V'^'■'^''^'"^ *''^ «"«'"•«' ^'^'^"'^'^ Vyoh^^M the specfic name 



-•--I- Corolla less declined or cni-ved ; the gibbous but not saccate throat much lovqer 

 than broad: loiv species, a span or so high : leaves crenate or obtusely toothed,' ob- 

 tuse, often thvhsh m texture, sddom over an inch long. 



