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SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



[Vol. III. 



4. Castilleja acuminata (Pursh) Spreng. L,ance-leaved Painted-cup 



(Fig. 3321.) 



Bartsia acuminata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 429. 1814. 

 Castilleja acuminata Spreng. Syst. 2: 775. 1825. 



Castilleja septenlrionalis Lindl. Bot. Reg. pi. 925. 



1825. 

 Castilleja pallida var. septenlrionalis A. Gray, in 



Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. 1: 575. 1876. 



Perennial, glabrous, or loosely tornentose 

 above; stems slender, commonly clustered, 6 / -2 

 high, usually simple. Leaves sessile, 3-5-nerved, 

 mostly quite entire, the lower linear, the upper 

 lanceolate, acuminate or acute at the apex, some- 

 what narrowed at the base, 2'-4' long; bracts 

 oblong, oval, or obovate, obtuse, dentate, or en- 

 tire, yellowish, greenish-white or purple, as long 

 as the sessile flowers; calyx cleft on both sides to 

 about the middle, the lobes lanceolate, usually 

 again 2-cleft; corolla 6 // -8 // long, its upper lip 

 2-4 times as long as the lower; capsule oblong, 

 6"-8" high. 



In moist soil, Labrador to Alaska, the mountains 

 of New England, Ontario, Minnesota, the Black 

 Hills, in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and to 

 British Columbia. June-Aug. 



5. Castilleja sessilifldra Pursh. 

 Downy Painted-cup. (Fig. 3322.) 



Castilleja sessilijlora Pursh, Am. Sept. 738. 1814. 



Perennial, cinerous-puberulent all over; 

 stems stout, simple, or branched from near 

 the base, 6 / -i5 / high, densely leafy. Leaves 

 sessile, i / -2 / long, the lowest commonly 

 linear, obtuse and entire, the others laciniate 

 into narrow, entire or cleft segments; bracts 

 green, similar to the upper leaves, shorter 

 than the sessile flowers; calyx deeper cleft 

 on the lower side than on the upper, its lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, acute; corolla yellowish, 

 \y z f long, the upper lip about twice as long 

 as the lower, the lobes of the latter linear; 

 capsule oblong-lanceolate, acute, 6 // -8 // long. 



On dry prairies, Manitoba to the Northwest 

 Territory, south to Illinois, Nebraska, Wyoming 

 and Texas. May-July. 



27. ORTHOCARPUS Nutt. Gen. 2: 56. 1818. 



Annual or rarely perennial herbs, mostly with alternate leaves, and yellow white or pur- 

 plish flowers, in bracted usually dense spikes, the bracts sometimes brightly colored. Calyx 

 tubular or tubular-campanulate, 4-clcft, or sometimes split down both sides. Corolla very 

 irregular, the tube slender, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip little if .any longer than the 3-lobed 

 1-3-saccate lower one. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip; anther-sacs 

 dissimilar, the outer one affixed by its middle, the inner pendulous from its upper end, com- 

 monly smaller. Style filiform; stigma entire. Capsule oblong, loculicidally dehiscent, 

 many-seeded. Seeds reticulated. [Greek, erect-fruit.] 



About 30 species, natives of America, mostly of the western United States, 1 or 2 Andean. 



