130 SNAPDRAGON ORDER 



COLLINSIA Nuttall 1817 COLLINSIA 



(Named for Collins, a botanist) 



PI. 22, fig. 8. 



Sepals 5, united into a bell-shaped calyx, petals 5, blue, pink, white 

 or variegated, united into a 2-lipped corolla with short tube, upper lip 

 2-cleft, lobes erect or curved backwards, lower lip larger, 3-lobed, the lat- 

 eral lobes spreading or drooping, flat, the middle one folded, keel-like, 

 enclosing the 4 stamens and thread-like style, stamens in pairs, united to 

 the corolla tube, which bears a gland on the upper side near the base, 

 ovary with 2 cavities, stigma small, head-like, or 2-lobed, capsule ovoid 

 or globose, 2-valved, the valves 2-cleft ; flowers in whorls or solitary in the 

 axils ; leaves opposite or whorled ; winter-annual. 

 Stems spreading, 2-6 in. high ; flowers 5-7 mm. long C. parviflora 



CORDYLANTHUS Nuttall 1846 

 (Gr. kordyle, club, anthos, flower) 



Sepals united into a spathe, green, as are also the bracts, petals 5, 

 dull yellow or purplish, united into a tubular, 2-lipped corolla, stamens 4, 

 ovary with 2 cavities, style hooked at tip ; flowers in small terminal clusters 

 or sometimes scattered ; leaves alternate, narrow, entire or parted ; annual. 



1. Calyx of 2 parts 



a. Corolla yellow or yellowish , 10-12 mm. long C. ramosus 



b. Corolla purplish, 20-25 mm. long C. Wrightii 



2. Calyx of 1 part; corolla purplish, 2 cm. long C. Kingii 



ELEPHANTELLA Rydberg 1900 LITTLE ELEPHANT 



(Gr. elephasj elephant, from the shape of the upper lip) 



PI. 22, fig. 11. 



Sepals 5, united into a tubular calyx, petals 5, purplish, united into a 

 2-lipped corolla, upper lip hooded with a curved beak, lower lip, 3-lobed, 

 lobes spreading, the middle one smallest, stamens 4 in pairs, within the 

 hood of the corolla, ovary with 2 cavities, capsule compressed, oblique or 

 curved, beaked ; flowers in terminal spikes ; leaves pinnately cut ; perennial. 

 Stems 4 in.-2 ft. high; leaves lanceolate, 2-6 in. long, 



often red-brown E. groenlandica 



GERARDIA Linne 1753 GERARD: A 

 (Named for the English herbalist, Gerard) 

 Sepals 5, united into a bell-shaped calyx, petals 5, purple, violet, 



