SCKOPHULAKIACE^. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) 28o 



loc. cit. High alpine region of the Colorado inountains, also in the Sierra 

 Nevada. 



Var. Haydeni, Gray. More slender, 3 to 5 iiulios liigli : liru-ar leave« 

 sometimes with one or two slender-suhulate lobes: bracts merely ciliatc-nu ben- 

 cent, laciniately 3 to 5-cleft into linear lobes, bright crimson : lip not half the 

 length of the galea. — Syuopt. Fl. ii. 2'J7. Alpine region of the Sierra I'.lanca. 

 S. Colorado. 



■M- *+ Tomentulose or cinereoiis-puberulent, or the stem on!'/ hmntetuvtentoae: 

 bracts, etc. conspicuonsl i) petaloid : corolla more exsertid, an inch low i or over ; 

 galea shorter than the tube. 



6. C. Integra, Oray. A span to a foot high : stem rather stont, tomen- 

 tose: leaves ciiiereon.s-tomentnlose, linear, 1.^ to 3 inches lon^', 1 to 3 line.s 

 wide, entire: bracts of the short spike red or rose-color, entire or sometimes 

 incised: corolla 1^ inches long; galea rather broad; lip strongly tri callous, 

 its lobes very short. — Bot. Mex. Hound. 119. In dry ground, fronj Colorado 

 to Arizona and Texas. 



-t- ■«- -1- Calyx deeper cleft before than behind: corolla either slender or small, 

 with galea much shorter than its tube and lip comparati rel i/ long : brads and 

 calyx if colored at all yellowish: leaves or their divisions narrowly linear, 

 rather rigid. 



+* Lip of corolla half the length of the short galea, more or less trisaccnlate and 

 little ij at all callous below the narrow lobes: fowers yellowish or greenish 

 white: clefs oj the calyx moderately unequal: leaves mostly 3 to b-cleft and 

 the divisions sometimes again 2 to 3-clef: bracts similar, not even their tips 

 colored. 



7. C. sessiliflora, Pursh. A span or two high, very leafy, nnereous- 

 pubescent: leaves 2 or more inches long, with slender lobes, rarely entire: lobes of 

 the tubular calyx slender : corolla, exserted, about 2 inches long : lip with linear- 

 lanceolate lobes very much longer than the obscurely saccate base. — On the prairie.s 

 from Wisconsin and Illinois to the Dakotas, W. Texas, and New Mexico. 



8. C. breviflora, Gray. Barely a span high, inore jnibesceni : luir,r leaves 

 of en entire and upper only 3 to 5-parted, an inch or so long: bracts of the dense 

 spike more dilated : lobes of the ovoid-oblong calyx lanceolate: corolla little 

 exserted, less than an inch long ; lip with somewhat callous or i>ac<<ife keels al>oui 

 the length of the oblong obtuse lobes. — Am. Jour. Sei. ii. xxxiii. 338. 



■*■*■ ■*-*• Lip oJ corolla very short, globular-saccate and callous, and with very short 



ovate lobes. 



9. C. flava, Watson. A foot high, with numerous slender stem.s, cinorc 

 ous-puberulent, at least above, and the elongated spike more pubescent : leaves 

 entire or the upper with one or two lobes : bract.s 3-cleft and with dilated ba.se ; 

 the upper and calyx yellowish: corolla hardly an inch long; narrow galea 

 little shorter than the tube. — Bot. King Exped. 230. Mountains of Wyo- 

 ming and E. Utah. 



13. ORTHOCARPUS, Nutt. 



Low herbs, with mainly alternate entire or 3 to 5-parted and laciniato leaves ; 

 the upper passing into bracts of the dense spike and not rarely col,. red, a'* alno 



