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Orthocarpus BIDWEI.LIAR Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 15; 51 

 1879. 

 No. 7566, collected March 21, in low and rather moist 

 clayey soil at Marysville, Sutter county. It is a pretty species 

 with bright yellow and purple flowers. The type was collected 

 "near Chico, Mrs. John Bidwell." 



Orthocarpus purpurascens Benth. Scroph. Ind. 13. 



No. 7601, collected April 6, on the plains back of Kern, 

 Kern county, the plants small. This plant is plentiful at inter- 

 vals about Bakersfield, becoming quite large under favorable 

 conditions. Known locally as "Indian pink." 



No. 7735, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern county, plen- 

 tiful on hillsides. 



Orthocarpus EXSERTUS Heller, Muhlenbergia, 1: 109. 1904. 

 Specimens from type locality, collected by Geo. B. Grant 

 at Lincoln Park near Pasadena, Los Angeles county, April, 

 1905. 



Orthocarpus venustus 



Annual, about 2 dm. high, the mostly purplish stems pu- 

 bescent with short spreading hairs, leaf}- and more or less 

 branched from near the base: leaves all sessile, the lowest some- 

 times approximate at the base, 6 cm. or less, narrow, 2-3 mm., 

 cut into several distant and divaricate lobes, these sometimes 

 very narrow, almost filiform: floral bracts 15 to 20 mm, long, 

 somewhat cuneiform, about 6 mm. wide at base, 10 to 15 mm. 

 across the top, usually but not always exceeding the flower, 

 greenish and hirsute at base, red-purple in the middle, the tips 

 pale purple, or sometimes all but the tips green, the two pairs 

 of lateral lobes linear, i mm. wide, slightly enlarged at the end, 

 the terminal one cuneate, 2 mm. wide at base, 3-lobed: calyx 

 equalling the bracts, the four linear lobes equal, marked like the 

 bracts: corolla deep crimson, pubescent on the lower part with 



