SCROPHULARIACE^. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) 279 



flowers large. — Bot. Calif, ii. 567. From the Wahsatch Mountains westward 

 to California. 



Viir. ambigUUS, Gray. A rather tall form, j.anieulately branched and 

 slender, witli lanceolate and linear leaves all narrowed at Uwe, pale and elau- 

 cescent, and the corolla violet-blue, an inch or less long: sepals remarkably 

 small. — Synopt. Fl. ii. 272. P. heterophjllus, Watson. Canons of the Wa- 

 satch ^Mountains and westward. 



* * Corolla scarlet-red, tubular-funnel/orm, conspicitonsl // bilahiute, an inch lonij. 

 27. P. Bridgesii, Gray. A foot or two high from a woody base, ghi- 

 brous up to tlie virgate secund thyrsus, or puberulont ; leaves from spatulale- 

 lanceolate to linear; the floral reduced to small subulate bnu-ts : peduncles, 

 pedicels, and sepals glandular-viscid : lips of the narrow corolla fully a third 

 the length of the tube; the upper erect and 2-lobed ; the luwer 3parted and 

 its lobes recurved. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 379. S. VV. Colorado, Urandegee, 

 and westward into S. California. 



5. CHIONOPHILA, Benth 



A high alpine dwarf perennial, with entire leaves mostly in a radical tuft 

 and a dense spike of cream-colored flowers. 



1. C. Jamesii, Benth. Glabrous or nearly so: leaves thickish, spatulato 

 or lanceolate, tapering into a scarious sheathing base; those on the j<cape-like 

 flowering stems one or two pairs, or occasionally alternate, linear: spike few 

 to many-flowered, mostly secund, bracteate : corolla over a half-inch long, ilull 

 cream-color. — Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. ii. xxxiii. 254. Alpine regions of the 

 Colorado mountains. 



Monkey-flower. 



Flowers usually showy and axillary, or becoming racemose by the reduction 

 of the upper leaves to bracts. 



* Viscid or glandular-pubescent. 

 •*- Leaves sessile or nearhj so, entire or feio-toothed : corolla rose-pirrpfe or t/eUow. 



1. M. nanus, Hook. & Am. From an inch to a span or more high : leai^ 

 from ohovate or oblong to lanceolate : cali/x-teeth broad!// lanceolate or triangular ^ a 

 quarter of the length of the tube : corolla ^ to J inch long, funnelform. with 

 Avidely spreading limb and throat gradually narr<nved downward into the in- 

 cluded or partly exserted tube : stigma peltate-funnel form : capsules with tajtor- 

 ing a])ex rather exceeding the calyx. — Ranging chiefly west of our limit, but 

 extending eastward into Wyoming. 



2. M. rubellus, Gray. From 2 to 10 inches high, brambcil from the 

 base : leaves from spatulate-oblong to linear, J to 5 inch long, commonly et|uallinjf 

 the pedicels; the lower sometimes ohovate or ovate : cal</.r-tr>t/i slmrt and ob- 

 tuse: corolla 3 or 4 lines long, from a third to twice the length of the calvx, 

 yellow or rose-color, sometimes yellow varying or changing to crimson-purple; 

 the throat broad and open: stigma bilamellar.^Vrom New Mexico and Ari 

 zona to Colorado and Washington. 



