t^ebruary 20, 1906. i^tf 



Gratiola ebracteaTA Benth. DC. Prodr. 10: 595. 1846. 



No. 7907, collected May 30, in wet muddy places along a 

 small stream about two miles east of Redding, vShasta county. 

 The type from "in planitiebus terrae Oregon," collected by Nut- 

 tall. 



CAST11.1.EJA CANDENS Dur. & Hilg. Pac. R. R. Rep. 5: 12. 



1855- 

 No. 781 1, collected May i, near Keene Station in the Te- 

 hachapi mountains, Kern county. The type was collected on 

 Pose creek, Kern county, probably a fragment of a plant. Our 

 plant does not agree in some particulars with the original. 



CasTILLEJA Douglasii Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 530. 1846. 



Castilleia parviflora var. Douglasii Jepson, Fl. W. M. Cal. 

 412. 1901. 



No. 7878, collected May 27, near Redding, Shasta county, 

 on banks under shrubs, the leaves and their divisions narrow, 

 the long scarlet floral bracts mostly acute. The type was from 

 "Nova California," collected by Douglas. 



No. 8033, collected June 15, near the summit of the first 

 ridge west of Sisson, Siskiyou county, in open grassy places in 

 pine woods. This form has rather broad leaves. 



Castilleja pratensis 



Perennial, somewhat tufted, hispid throught with short 

 chaffy wavy hairs which are softer in the inflorescence, the stems 

 and leaves greyish ; stems 2-2.5 dm. high, simple or with several 

 erect branches above: leaves narrow, about 3 cm. long, the low- 

 ermost linear, entire, i or 2 mm. wide, those on the middle part 

 of the stem 3 mm. wide, cut above into about three linear as- 

 cending lobes: inflorescence occupying the upper half of the 

 stem, the bracts and flowers pale yellow: bracts 2.5 cm. long, 

 the lower half oblong, 5 mm. wide, above that widened to 8 or 

 10 mm. by the spreading of the five lobes, the two lateral pairs 



