164 Flora of the Paloasc Region 



Flowers scarlet, rarely yellow. 



Leaves entire. C. miniata. 



Leaves cleft and lobed. C. angustifoija. 

 Flowers whitish. 



Soft-pubescent: leaves mostly lobed. C. lutea. 



Harshly pubescent: leaves mostly entire. C. i,i T TKSCF.xs. 



C. miniata Dougl. Glabrous below the inflorescence: stems erect, simple 

 or nearly so, 30-100 cm. high: leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute 

 or acuminate, entire, sessile, 3-5 cm. long: spikes dense, pubescent; bracts 

 broad, mostly 3-5-toothed or cleft, scarlet-tipped, shorter than the flowers: 

 calyx about equally cleft before and behind, the divisions 2-cleft: corolla 

 yellowish, 3 cm. long, the upper lip straight and slender, longer than the 

 tube; lower lip very short; pod ovoid, 10-12 mm. long, enclosed in the calyx. 

 Low ground, common. 



C. angUStifolia Don. Stems usually clustered from a woody base, erect, 

 20-50 cm. high, more or less pubescent throughout, somewhat pilose: leaves 

 pubescent, the lower linear or linear-lanceolate, mostly entire, the upper 

 broader, cleft to about the middle into 3-5 narrow lobes: inflorescence short 

 and dense, becoming elongate in fruit; bracts like the leaves, but broader 

 and more deeply cleft, pilose below, the tips scarlet, rarely yellow: calyx 

 2-3 cm. long, with lanceolate lobes: corolla 2 cm. long, the upper lip hardly 

 as long as the tube, much longer than the short 3-lobed lower lip. Thatuna 

 Hills, Kamiack Butte and Snake River bluffs: very variable. 



C. lutea Heller. ( C. pallida var. camponem Greenman.) Perennial, with 

 soft-pilose somewhat viscid pubescence, erect, 15-50 cm. high: leaves lanceo- 

 late, a few of the lower entire, the upper cleft into 3-7 narrow lobes: inflor- 

 escence pale, greenish-yellow, elongated in fruit: calyx 2-2.5 cm. long, equally 

 cleft before and behind, the lateral divisions 2-lobed or rarely entire, obtuse 

 at apex: corolla longer than the calyx; upper lip nearly twice as long as the 

 prominently 3-lobed lower lip. Low meadows, rare. 



C. lutescens Piper, n. comb. (C. pallida var. lutcscens Greenman.) Erect 

 from a woody base, 30~50cm. high, harshly short-pubescent throughout: stems 

 simple or branched above: leaves lanceolate-linear, attenuate, all but the 

 upper entire, 3-5 cm. long; upper leaves and bracts broader, 3-5-lobed, the 

 bracts yellowish: calyx equally cleft before and behind, the divisions 2-cleft: 

 corolla yellowish, exceeding the calyx; upper lip twice as long as the prom- 

 inently 3-lobed lower lip. Dry hillsides, common. 



275. ORTHOCARPUS. 



Low annuals, very similar to the preceding genus: calyx 4-cleft: 

 corolla tubular; the upper lip (galea) scarcely longer and usually 

 much narrower than the inflated 1-3-saccate lower ones: anthers 

 unequally 2-celled, or the smaller anther-cell rarely wanting. 



Bracts broad, purple-tipped. (). TENUIFOUUS. 



Bracts not colored, little different from the leaves. (). Hisi'inrs. 



0. tenuifolius Beilth. Annual, erect, branched above, 10-20 cm. high, 

 sparsely hairy: leaves narrow, 2-4 cm. long, entire or pinnatelv cleft into 3- 



