OrthocarpuH. SCROPIIITLARIACE.1^. 577 



two liigli, soniewliiit piiboscent or in tlie mostly (louse short spikes sometimes vil- 

 lous-hirsute : leaves from narrowly lanceolate to oblong, entire or laciniate-incised 

 into rather short and blunt lobes ; the upper and the bracts more cuneate-dilated, 

 equalling the flowers, herbaceous, the blunt tips whitish or yellowish : corolla near 

 an inch long, dull white, often purplish-tipped ; the lower lip considerably dilated. 



Pine woods and low groiiiids near the sea-shore, Monterey to HumhoMt Co. , and along the 

 coast to Washington Territory. Seeds oblong, twice or thriee larger than tliose of the preceding, 

 to which the species is much more nearly related than to the next. 



+■ +- FilamenU pubescent : upper Up of the corolla long and almost linear, obtuse 

 and hooked at the apex, densely red-bearded; lower lip with three very small and 

 somewhat didymous little sacs at its broad apex, directly under and not larger than 

 the short and rounded recumbent teeth or lobes : stigma very large, dejn-essed-capi- 

 tate : capsule ovate. 



5, O. purpurascens, Benth. Erect, at length diffusely much branclied at the 

 base, rather stout, a span to a foot high, hirsute : leaves above tlio lanceolate or 

 linear base laciniately once or twice ])iiinatcly parted into narrow linour or filiform 

 divisions : spiko dense and thick, oblong, at length cylindrical : bracts about the 

 length of the flowers; their laciniate-lobed divisions or their tips and those of the 

 calyx-lobes crimson-purple and rose-color : corolla about an inch long, the tube 

 yellowish or whitish, the summit crimson or red. 



Common along the hills and moimtains of the coast, from Monterey to TInmholdt Co., so 

 abundant as to give the ground a purple hue for miles in some places : occasionnlly, with duller 

 or only pallid color, in salt marshes. The reddish soft and copious beard of the narrow and 

 liooked upper lip, which marks this species, is composed of many- ami close-jointed hairs. Seeds 

 oval ; the loose arilliform coat deeply favose. 



§ 2. Lower lip of the corolla simply saccate or nearly so, its 3 teeth very short and 

 inconspicuotis or obsolete; the upper lip moderately smaller, short, ovate-tri- 

 angular ; the tube hardly if at all sinyassing the calyx : stigma small and 

 entire : anthers cdl 2-celled : seeds with a very loose costate-reticulated coat : 

 bi-acfs all herbaceous. — True Orthocarpus. (Orthocarpits, Nutt.) 



G. O. luteus, Nutt. A span to a foot high, with strict simple or virgately 

 branclied stem, minutely pubescent and nioro coarsely hirsute: flowers leafy-spicate : 

 loavos linoar-lancoolato, ontiro or 3-cloft ; tlio floral onos Himilnr or often broader : 

 onlyx-tooth lunceolnto, acuto : corolla goldon yellow (half an inch long), iu)t ox- 

 cooding tliG iloral loaves or bracts ; the lips of equal length and not very diflbreiit 

 in size. — 0. strictus, Benth. ; Hook. Fl. ii. t. 172. 



Dry banks and plains, along the northeastern borders of the State (Carson and Lake Washoe, 

 Nevada, Anderson, Torrey) ; thenco northward and eastward to British Cohmibia and to the 

 Upper Mississippi. 



7. O. tenuifolius, Benth. A span or more high, somewhat hairy or glabrate : 

 flowers in a dense thick spike : leaves or at least the upper ones hispid-ciliate ; the 

 lower linear and mostly 3-5-cleft, with the divisions linear-filiform; the floral or 

 bracts broadly ovate, incisely 2 - 3-cleft or toothed, or often entire, becoming thin 

 and reticulated in age, usually imbricated over the flowers or fruit : calyx-teeth 

 subulate : corolla purplish ; the upper lip becoming longer, slightly hooked at 

 the tip. — Bartsia fenvifolia, Pursh. O. imbricatus, Watson, Bot. King Exp. 458. 



Dry ridges, Sierra Nevada, near Summit {E. L. Greene), and Lassen's Peak (Lemmon) ; thence 

 to British Columbia and Montana. Spikes from 1 to at length .1 or 4 inches long ; the broad 

 imbricated bracts strikingly and abruptly dilferont from the leaves below. The Califoniian 

 specimens arc of the sinootiier form, very nearly that described as 0, ixihricnlits. 



8. O. bracteoSUS, Benth. In foliage and as|ioct resondiling the jireceding, but 

 the bracts deeply 3-cleft and with triangular-lanceolate lobes (their pubescence rather 

 hirsute), shorter than the bright rose-purple corolla : lower li]> of this ampler and 

 more saccate ; the upper with narrower and more decidedly hooked tip. 



