Collinsia. SCROPHULARIACE^. 553 



higher on the corolla than the other : anthers round-reniform, their two cells con- 

 fluent at the apex into one. A gland at the base of the corolla on the upper side 

 answers to the fifth stamen. Style filiform : stigma small, entire or ndnutely 

 2-cleft. Capsule ovate or globose, at first septicidal, but the valves soon 2-cleft. 

 Seeds few or several in each cell, amphitropous and peltate ; the face concave. — 

 Winter annuals (all N^orth American and mainly western) ; with simple opposite 

 sessile leaves, or the lowest petioled and the upper whorled, and usually handsome 

 flowers in their upper axils : pedicels solitary or cymosely umbellate-clustered, or in 

 whorls ; the upper tiers commonly naked by the diminution of the later leaves into 

 small bracts. Corolla blue, purple, or white, sometimes yellowish, commonly two- 

 colored. The plants mostly spring from seed in autumn and flower early the next 

 season. In garden cultivation the Californian species flower directly as annuals. — 

 The stamens and style not rarely rise out of the sac of the corolla into a more erect 

 position before all the pollen is shed. — Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 91. 



The short base of the corolla below the bulging we will call the tuhc, and the whole inflated 

 and bulging portion up to the cleft, the throat. The little organ which stands in place of the 

 fifth stamen, we call simply the gland. 



* Flowers short-pedicelled or nearly sessile, mostly 6 or more in each close and whorl- 

 like or head-like cluster, only the loicest clusters subtended by leaves, the others by 

 small bracts. 



+■ Corolla strongly declined ; the much inflated and. saccate gibbous throat fully as 

 broad as long and forming an obtuse or right angle with the very short proper tube: 

 gland short and small, sessile: upper pair of filaments more or less bearded towards 

 the base. 



1. C. bicolor, Benth. A foot or so high, from nearly glabrous to hirsute and 

 above somewhat viscid-hairy : leaves more or less toothed and oblong or lanceolate ; 

 the upper usually ovate-lauceolate and sessile by a broad often subcordate and 

 nervose-veined base : pedicels shorter than the acute lobes of the calyx : corolla 

 party-colored (the lower hp violet or rose-purple and the upper paler or nearly white), 

 occasionally all white ; the saccate throat very oblique to the tube ; the recurved- 

 spreading upper lip a little shorter than the lower. — Bot. Eeg. t. 1734; Brit. Fl. 

 Gard. ser. 2, t. 307 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3488. G. heterophylla, Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 

 3695, a form with 3-cleft lower leaves, which is rare. 



Moist hillsides, &c. ; abounding through all the western part of the State. A pure white- 

 flowered form (var. Candida) is in cultivation, and also (we believe) wild. The most showy species, 

 with corolla three fourths of an inch long. 



2. C. tinctoria, Hartweg. Foliage, &c., like the preceding, above generally 

 more viscid-pubescent : flowers almost sessile : lobes of the calyx linear or oblong- 

 linear, mostly obtuse : corolla yellowish, cream-color, or white, usually with some 

 purple dots or lines ; the axis of the strongly saccate-ventricose throat at right 

 angles with that of the tube ; the upper lip and its lobes very short. — Benth. PI. 

 Hartw. 328 (1849). C. barbata, Bosse in Verhand. Gartenb.'Preuss. 1853, & Bot. 

 Zeit. xii. 905. C septemnervia, Kellogg, Proc. Calif Acad. ii. 224, fig. 69. 



Moist grounds and banks of streams, along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and 

 through its foot-hills. The yellowish or brownish and viscid-glandular pubescence (some- 

 times short and sometimes villous) stains the fingers, whence probably the specific name. 

 The upper face of the lateral lobes of the lower lip of the corolla is sparsely bearded, and the 

 margins of the leaves are scabrous. 



-i- -t- Corolla less declined or curved ; the gihbous but not saccate throat much longer 

 than broad : low species, a span or so high : leaves crenate or obtusely toothed, ob- 

 tuse, often thickish in texture, seldom over an inch long. 



