PenMcmon. RCROPIIULARIyVCE/K 559 



11. P. Cleveland!, Gray. About 3 foet liigh, ratlier leafy: leaves oblong, irreg- 

 nlarly and shar[)ly toothed (2 inches long); tlie floral merely small ovatc-siibulato 

 bracts of the loose and naked virgate panicle: few-flowered peduncles and pedicels 

 slender: calyx iK^rbaceous; the lobes ovate: corolla crimson (three fourths of an 

 inch long), tubular-fiinnelform, distinctly bilabiate ; the lobes barely one cpiarter 

 of the length of the tid)o including the throat : sterile filament moderately bearded 

 at and below the dilated tip. — Troc. Am. Acad. xi. 94. 



Cnfion Taiitillns, in Tiowcr Caliroviiin, about 25 miles below tlic State boundary {Cleveland, 

 Palmer) ; ca-st of Snii Heniaidino, Parry. 



12. P. acuminatUS, Dougl. A foot or so high, leafy: leaves from ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate (an inch or two long), entire; the upper and the floral ones inclined 

 to be cordate-clasping : flowers numerous in a long and mostly interrupted virgate 

 spike-like panicle, the base of which is usually leafy, mostly several in the floriferous 

 axils : i)edicels and especially the peduncles short : lobes of the calyx narrow or 

 acuminate : corolla lilac-pnri)le or violet, with open throat and widely 8i)reading 

 lobes : sterile filament strongly bearded at the dilated tip (rarely naked) : capsulo 

 lirm-coviacooufl and acuminato. — liindl. But. Ifng. t. 1285. J\ nidilnx, ]3ougl. 

 J\ FemUeri, Gray in I'acif. Ji. Rep. ii. 108, t. f). 



Near lIuinl>ol<lt I,akc, Nevada, IFatson. Tlieroforo not improliably roaeliinf^ the bovdei-s of 

 the State. A neat species, widely diffused northward and eastward through the interior region 

 to and beyond the Rooky Mountains. 



++ ++ ++ Corolla half an inch or leas in length, blue, purplish, or whitish, moderaieh/ 



enlarging above ; the roundish lobes spreading. 



= Leaves serrate or toothed. 



13. P. deustus, Dougl. A s[)an to a foot high, in tufts from an almost woody 

 branching base, glabrous : leaves all sessile, from ovate to linear-oblong, sehkuu over 

 an inch long, sharply serrate Avith many or rarely few narrow teeth (occasionally 

 some of them entire) : narrow and virgate or spike-like panicle mostly leafy below ; 

 the clusters several — many-flowered, close : peduncles and pedicels short : corolla 

 cream-color or buff, sometimes with a tinge of rose : sterile filament naked. — Lindl. 

 Bot. Keg. t. 1318. P. heterander, Torr. Sc Gray, in Pacif. I?. Rep. ii. 123, t. 8. 



Diy rocks and banks, eastern side of the Sieira Nevada (Sierra Valley, Lemninn, kc), to the 

 Ulterior borderH of IhitiHli Colunibin and Wyoming Terr, VnrioH much \u (lie folinge and more 

 or IcHH deimo or interrn|>tnd iiilloroHcenuo ; also In tlia sepnU, which uni conuminiy InncoolaUt 

 luid rather long, sometimos shorter, rarely almost ovate. /'. lirlennitler is a narrow-leaved and 

 strict form, from Heckwith's Pass, in which tho Htorilo filamont was fftund to be antheril'erous ; 

 but this occasionally happens in cultivated plants of other simcics, and has not been found a 

 second time in this. 



V. ovATUS, Dougl. Bot. Mag. t. 290.1, a native of the woods of Oregon, may reach Talifornia : 

 it is a foot or two high, minutely pubescent, has thiniiish and bright green ov.^te or somewhat 

 cordate and acutely serrate leaves, and a rather open naked iianicle of blue flowers. 



= = Leaves quite entire. 



14. P. Gairdneri, Hook. A span high, in tufts from a somewhat woody base, 

 minutely cinereous-puherulent throughout : leaves all linear or the radical linear- 

 spatulato, seldom an inch long, the margins sodii rovolute : flowers few and almo.<5t 

 simply racemose : calyx somewhat glandular : sterile fdament bearded down one 

 side. — Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 321. 



Virginia City, Nevada (Bloomrr), doubtless also within the State line : nl«o in tho dry interior 

 of Oregon. 



I'. I.AIMOIFOUI'S, Tlook. k Am., a still dwnrfer species, wliolly glubrons, with simple .stems 

 and leaves almost filiform, sparingly inhabits the same interior region, and may reach tlie north- 

 eastern borders of the State. 



I'. AMniouiis, Torr., also with liliforni leaves ami riieemose (lowers, but tidier nnd brniudiing, 

 is of more southern range through (he interior, and is not known Curt her west tintn Southein 

 Utah. 



