284 SCEOPHULARIACE^. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 



* * Perennials. 



*- Calyx deeper cleft before than behind, mosthj colored red, as are a part of the 



bracts: corolla large, an inch or two cong ; its galea about equalling the tube. 



2. C. linarisefolia, Benth. Mostly tall and strict, 2 to 5 feet high, 

 glabrous below, the spike somewhat pubescent or villous : leaves linear, entire, 

 or some of the upper sparingly laciniate, and the uppermost and bracts 

 .3-parted : calyx over an inch long, mostly red or crimson, sometimes pale ; 

 the anterior fissure very much deeper than the posterior ; the long upper lip 

 acutely 4-toothed : corolla 1^ or 2 inches long; its narrow falcate galea much 

 exserted. — In the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado, and southward and 

 westward. 



H- H- Calyx about equally cleft before and behind : floral leaves or bracts more 

 or less dilated and petaloid-colored (red or crimson, varying to yellowish or 

 whitish). 



•w Pubescence never tomentose nor cinereous-tomentulose. 

 =■ Galea equalling or longer than the tube of the corolla; the lip very short. 



3. C. parviflora, Bong. A span to 2 feet high, viUous-hirsute, at least 

 above : leaves variously laciniately cleft into linear or lanceolate lobes, or some- 

 times the cauline mainly entire and narrow : calyx-lobes oblong and 2-cleft at 

 apex or to below the middle : corolla an inch or less long ; only the upper part 

 of the narrow galea exserted ; the small lip not protuberant. — From the Dakotas 

 and Colorado westward and northward. 



4. C. miniata, Dougl. A foot or two high, mostly simple and strict, 

 glabrous or nearly so except the inflorescence : leaves lanceolate or linear, or 

 the upper ovate-lanceolate, entire : spike dense and short : bracts mostly bright 

 red, rarely whitish, seldom lobed : calyx-lobes lanceolate, acutely 2-cleft : 

 corolla over an inch long ; the galea exserted, linear, longer than the tube ; very short 

 lip protuberant and callous. — C. pallida, var. miniata, Gray. Extending south- 

 ward from Alaska and British Columbia along the higher mountains of 

 Colorado, Utah, and California. Exceedingly variable. 



= = Galea decidedly shorter than the tube of the corolla and not over twice or 

 thrice the length of the lip. 



5. C pallida, Kunth. A foot or so high, strict, commonly villous with 

 weak cobwebby hairs, at least the dense and short leafy-bracted spike, or 

 below glabrous: leaves mainly entire; the lower linear; upper lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate : bracts oval or obovate, partly white or yellowish, equal- 

 ling the corolla : calyx cleft to or below the middle and again more or less 

 2-cleft : galea 2 to 4 lines long, barely twice the length of the lip, its base 

 not exserted from the calyx. 



Var. septentriODalis, Gray. A span to 2 feet high, sometimes almost 

 glabrous : bracts greenish-white, varying to yellowish, purple, or red : lip 

 smaller, from half to hardly a third the length of the galea. — Bot. Calif, i. 

 575. Mountains of Colorado and Utah, also in the White and Green Moun- 

 tains, and far northward. 



Var. oceidentalis, Gray. Dwarf and narrow-leaved form, 2 to 6 inches 

 high : bracts comparatively broad, mostly incised or cleft, the tips and flowers 

 whitish : lip about half the length of the rather broad galea. — Bot. Calif. 



