Cordylanthus. SCROPHULARIACE^E. 581 



Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ( Torre'?/, &e.) ; probably reaching the adjacent borders of Cali- 

 fornia : not rare through the interior region to the borders of Wyonung. 



3. C. filifolius, Nutt. Paniculately branched, a foot or two liigh, puberuliiiit 

 and somewhat viscid, or sometimes nearly glabrous, sometimes sparsely hispid : 

 leaves tiliform or linear-hliform ; the lower entire, the upper 3 - 5-parted, the lloral 

 with cuneate base and bristly-ciliate margins ; the divisions with dilated and retuse 

 or notched gland-bearing tip : flowers rather numerous in terminal heads : corolla 

 purplish, 6 to 9 lines long. — Nutt. ex Benth. in DC. 1. c. Adetwste<jia rigida, 

 Benth. in Lindl. Syst. Nat. & DC. 1. c. 537. 



San Diego Co. to San Francisco, &c., and east to Mariposa Co. 



4. C. pilosus, Gray. Paniculately branched, 2 to 4 feet high, soft-villous and 

 more or less hoary : leaves very narrowly linear, entire ; the upper and floral ones 

 usually broader and notclied or 3-toothed at the tij) : flowers crowded two or three 

 together at the summit of the branches or becoming scattered or paniculate : corolla 

 yellowish with some purple, less than an inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 383. 



Var. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Little or not at all villous, glandular-pubescent : 

 flowers more panicled or scattered. 



Open grounds, Santa Clara Co., to the Sacramento and to ilendocino Co., Brewer, Bolandcr, 

 Kellogg, &c. 



5. C. tenuis, Gray, 1. c. Diffusely branched from the base, a foot or two high, 

 from very minutely pubescent to nearly glabrous : branches filiform : leaves entire, 

 filiform or very narrowly linear ; the upper sometimes dilated or tridenticulate at 

 the tip ; the floral sometimes 3-parted : flowers more or less scattered : corolla 

 purplish and yellowish, 6 or 7 lines long. 



Dry sandy soil, in tlie Sierra Nevada from Mariposa to Plumas Co., and adjacent frontiers of 

 Nevada : also Red Mountain; Mendocino Co., Kellogg or Bolandcr. 



§ 2. Calyx one-leaved {the anterior division wanting) : flowers destitute of hractlets, 

 each one sessile in the axil of a clasping bract : herbage not glandular but 

 sometimes viscid-pubescent : no callous gland at the tijis of the leaves. — 

 Hemistegia, Gray. 



* Stamens 4, all loith villous filaments and 2-celled anthers ; their cells bearded at 



base and apex : leaves mostly 2>-cleft. 



6. C. Kingii, Watson. A span to a foot high, much branched, \dscidly pubes- 

 cent : divisions of the leaves linear-filiform : bracts 3 - 5-cleft : flowers crowded at 

 the summit of the branchlets : corolla pubescent above, mostly purple, less than an 

 inch long. — Bot. King Exp. 1. c. t. 22. 



Monitor Valley, Nevada ( Watson), and Southern Utah : not yet known in California. 



* * Stamens 4, tvith glabrous filaments : anthers of the longer stamens 1-celled, of the 

 shorter ivith a small loiver cell only ; merely the base of tlie anther-cells ciliolate or 

 bearded: leaves all entire. 



7. C. canescens, Gray, 1. c. About a foot high, corymbosely branched, rather 



stout, hoary-pubescent : leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, rather erect : bracts lanceo- 

 late : flowers few in a close capitate cluster : corolla purplisli. 



_ Washoe Co., Nevada {Anderson, Torrey, &c.), near the California line, and doubtless also 

 within it. 



8. C. maritimus, ISTutt. 1. c. A foot or less higli, corymbosely branched from 

 the base, pale, less hoary-pubescent than the preceding, which it resembles : the 

 leaves and bracts similar ; inflorescence similar or more spicate : corolla dull pur- 

 plish : filaments in very unequal pairs. 



Sandy salt-marshes along the coast, from San Francisco I5uy to San Diego. 



