304 SCROPHULARIACE^. Cordylanthus. 



Var. brevibracteatus, Gray, is glabrous up to the floral leaves, these hispid-cili- 

 ate with short bristles, also shorter and fewer, as are the flowers in the head. — Bot. Calif, 

 i. 622. — Soda spring, Kern Co., Rothnck. 



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

 somewhat viscid, no rigid hairs : leaves linear, all but the floral entire ; these commonly 

 3-parted and with emarginate or callous-3-toothed tip : flowers few in the irregular termi- 

 nal clusters, or some lateral and solitary ; corolla yellowish or purplish, half inch or more 

 long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 383, & Bot. Calif, i. 581.— W. California, in open dry ground 

 from Santa Clara Co. northward. 



Var. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Lower, less pilose, more viscid or glandular : flowers 

 all scattered. — Mendocino Co., Bolander. Also from Plumas Co. to Tuolumu^ Co. in the 

 foothills of the Sierra. 



C. tenuis, Gray, 1. c. Effusely paniculate, a foot or two high, minutely cinereous-puber- 

 ulent, at summit sometimes more pubescent and glandular ; leaves very narrowly linear, 

 entire : flowers scattered along the almost filiform branches, or some loosely clustered at 

 their summit: flowers as of the preceding or smaller and the upper sepal narrower. — Dry 

 ground, Cahfornia from the mountains of Mendocino Co. to Lake Tahoe, and adjacent 

 borders of Nevada. 



^_ ^_ Stamens 2: anthers 1-celled : filaments nearly glabrous : posterior division of calyx only 

 2-nevved, 2-cleft at apex: seeds few, minutely favose. 



C. capitatus, Nutt. A foot or two high, paniculately much branched, soft-pubescent 

 and cinereous : leaves very narrowly linear, or those subtending the several-flowered ter- 

 minal head broader and 3-5-clef t : corolla purplish, half inch long : capsule 8-seeded. — 

 Benth. 1. c. 597; Watson, Bot. King, 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c — S. Idaho and N. 

 Nevada, Nuttall, Watson. 



§ 3. Hemist^gia, Gray, 1. c. Calyx monophyllous ; the anterior division 

 wanting : flowers strictly sessile in the axil of a clasping bract or leaf, ebracteolate : 

 corolla purplish or yellowish : no callous gland at the tip of leaves : herbage not 

 glandular : seeds (those of C. maritimus not seen mature) rather numerous, 

 scarious-appendaged ; the coat cellular-favose. 



* Stamens 2 : anthers 2-ceIled : filaments glabrous : seeds somewhat reniform. 

 C. ni611is. Gray. Barely a foot high, rather stout, much branched, villous-hirsute : 



leaves and bracts oblong-linear, obtuse, entire or the upper laciniate-toothed or pinnatifid : 



flowers in a thickish short spike : corolla three-fourths inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 



384, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California, around Vallejo, 



Wright, Greene. 



* * Stamens 4 • anthers of longer stamens 2-celled, of the shorter with only the small lower cell : 

 filaments c;labroiis or nearlv so: leaves and even bracts all entire, pale or canescent; lower ones 

 linear- upper and especially the looselv imbricated bracts, lanceolate or broader and concave or 

 somewhat conduplicate: inflorescence at first capitate, becoming short-spicate. 



C. maritimus, Nutt. 1- c. A span or two high, corymbosely branched, cinereous-pubes- 

 cent: leaves giabrate, slightly fleshy: pairs of filaments very unequal. — Gray, 1. c — 

 California, in sandy salt marshes, from San Diego to San Francisco Bay. 



C. canescens. Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, corymbosely much branched, canescent 

 with soft and short villous pubescence : uppermost leaves and bracts from oblong- to 

 ovate-lanceolate : smaller filaments sometimes obscurely hairy. — Saline soil. Sierra Nevada, 

 on the eastern border of California to Salt Lake, Utah. 



Var. Parryi. A slender form, with narrower bracts and sparser flowers : smaller 

 filaments with some scattered hairs.— C. Parryi, Watson in Am. Naturalist, ix. 346.— 

 S. W. Utah, Parry, Palmer. 



* * * Stamens 4: anthers all 2-celled: filaments villous: leaves and bracts mostly 3-5-parted 

 into linear-filiform divisions : habit and inflorescence of § Adenosteyia. 



C. Kingii, Watson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid-pubescent or villous : 

 leaves 1 or 2 inches long: flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the summit 

 of the slender branchlets : calyx 4-6-nerved : corolla less than an inch long, purplish. — 

 Bot. King, 2.33, t. 22. — W. Nevada, Watson. S. Utah, Parry, Siler. S. W. Colorado, 

 Brandegee, 



