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COLWNSIA BARTSIAEFOLIA Benth. DC. Prodr. 10 : 318. 1846. 



No. 8157, collected April 12, in Madera county, on grassy 

 slopes near the San Joaquin river about four miles above Pol- 

 lasky, plentiful at one place. These plants are not glandular, 

 merely puberulent with no trace of pubescence except a faint 

 ciliation on the calyx lobes. 



Scrophularia floribunda (Greene) 



Scrophularia Californica var. floribunda Greene, Manual, 

 273. 1894. 



No. 8143, collected April 11, in Madera county in grassy 

 uplands near the San Joaquin river about three miles above Pol- 

 lasky, growing about granite boulders. I have recognized this ' 

 as distinct for several years, and in 1904 distributed it as a spe- 

 cies. The range is given as "hills of the interior," in the San 

 Francisco bay region. 



Scrophularia occidentalis (Rydb.) Bicknell, Bull. Torr. 

 Club, 23: 315. 1896. 



Scrophularia nodosa occidentalis Rydb. Cont. U. S. Nat, 

 ;^ Herb. 3: 517. 1896. 



No. 8222, collected May 10, along the base of the Sierra 

 foothills about three miles south of Bishop, Inyo county, grow- 

 ing about granite boulders. Perhaps not this species, but re- 

 ferred here rather than to either of the named forms from the 

 western part of the State, The type was collected near "Rapid 

 City," South IDakota. 



P'eiitjstenion moiioeiisis 



Perennial, stems several from a' tough woody root, 3 or 4 

 dm. high or less, glaucous appearing but densely puberulent 

 below the inflorescence, then densely glandular pubescent: leaves 

 coriaceous^! rather hroadly lanceolate, the lowermost with blade 

 about 6 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide, tapering into a petiole 2 cm, 

 lohgj the apex sub-acute, the one or two pairs of stem lea;ves 

 sessile, somewhat shorter and more acute, all appearing smooth 



