Tondla. SCROPIIULAlirACE.E. 55.3 



7. C. sparsiflora, Fisclif^r <^ Meyer. Slender, diU'iisc or erect, a span to a foot 

 hif:;li : upper li^ives linear-obloii^' or linear-lanceolate, seldom taperiii*,' at base, 

 merely opposite, or the minute upper floral ones in threes : pedicels solitary, in 

 pairs, or some ot" the upper in whorls of three, longer or shorter than the liower : 

 calyx-lobes from ovate to deltoid-lanceolate : corolla (mostly violet) strongly de- 

 clined ; the inllated saccate throat very oblique on the tube, about the length of the 

 upper lip : lilaments hairy below: gland sessile and projecting forwards, cylindricjil- 

 subulato. — Jnd. Som. Petcrsb. (18;{r)) ii. 33. C. jmrvijiom, var. sjimsijiura, iJcnth. 

 in ])U. C. solifnria, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 10. 



Sliaded l\illsi(les, kc, from near San Francisco noithwnid. Corolla 4 to lines long: the upper 

 lip and the middle lobe of the lower commonly yellowish and pnriilo-dotted, or paler than the 

 ample and violet lateral lol)e3. Calyx-tnljc conuiioiily tinged with pnrple. 



8. C. parviflora, Dongl. Low, at length diil'use, a span high : leaves mostly 

 oblong or lanceolate ; the upper narrowed at base and entire ; the floral often in 

 threes or fours or even fives : pedicels 1 to 5, mostly longer than the small flowers : 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, a little shorter than the blue moderately obli(}ue corolla, the 

 oblong gibbous-saccate throat of which is longer than the lips : filaments all gla- 

 brous : gland small and cai)itato, short-stipitato : stigma 2-clel't. — Lindl. Dot. Reg. 

 t. 1802; Hook. Fl. ii. 94, by misprint as C. jmncijfora. C. minima, Nutt. in Jour. 

 Acad. Philad. vii. 47. 



Shady moist gronnds, from the coast north of San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada ; thence 

 northward to Washiti^ton Territory and Lake Snperior. Corolla 2 to 4 lines long, rather narrow. 

 Nuttall's C. minima is a depauperate form, early flowering from the seed, with corolla (3 or 4 

 lines long) fully twice the length of the shortish calyx. 



4- -♦- Glandular: leaves entire, narrow: hhru nf the aihjx ohdinr, slmrtcr than the 



capsule. 



9. C. Tonreyi, Oray. Slender, erect, a span or so high, divergently branched : 

 leaves thickish ; the lowest narrowly spatulate ; the others linear with a tapering 

 base, maiidy opposite, or the floral in threes or fours ; all the uppermost of these 

 reduced to minute bracts: pedicels 2 to 7 iji a whorl, rather longer than the flowers: 

 corolla deep violet-blue, almost thrico the lengtli of the calyx, moderately declined, 

 the gibbous throat with the tu])o about the length of the lower lip : filaments gla- 

 brous : gland sessile, subulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 378. 



Common in tho higher parts of the Sierra Nevada, from Mariposa Co. to Nevada Co., Tnrrry, 

 Bohuukr, WaLwn, &c. Somewhat viscid, heset with minute dark glands. Corolla 3 or 4 lines 

 lonw ; the plaits forming the margins of the sac of the lower lip terminating below in a spur-like 

 projection. Seeds oblong, more terete than usual, and large lor the size of the capsule, a line 

 long. 



7. TONELLA, Nutt. 



Corolla obscurely bilabiate ; the 5 more or less unequal lobes somewhat rotately 



spreading, the lower not complicate nor enclosing the soon ascending stamens and 



stylo ; tho tube slightly gibbous posteriorly. Ovules and seeds from one to four 



in each coll. Caulino leaves mainly tornately divided or 3-parted. Otherwise as 



in Collinsia. — Nutt. ex r>enth. in DC. Prodr. x, 593 ; Oray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 



378, & xi. 92. 



1. T. COllinsioides, Nutt, 1. c Slender annual, diHTusoly branched from the 

 base, nearly glabrous : branches filiform, a span to a foot long : radical and lowest 

 caulino leaves ovato or rotmdish, somewhat lobed, erenatn or ontiro (a (pmrter to 

 half an inch long), on slender petioles; the others shorter-pctioled or sessile, 3-]iarted 

 or divided into oblong or lanceolate divisions or leaflets ; tho floml ones sometimes 

 in whorls of three, and the uppermost simple, and shorter than the slender filiform 

 pedicels ; these solitary, or in pairs, or .sometimes 3 in a whorl : flowers minute, at 



