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5 mm. long, the tube 2 mm. long, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 

 short acuminate, in the fruiting stage appearing shorter than 

 the tube by the inflation of the latter: corollas bright yellow, 

 I cm. long, the very narrow tube 7 mm. long, barely i mm, 

 across, glabrate or somewhat pubescent with short hairs, lower 

 lip about 2 mm. broad and as deep, purple spotted at base, the 

 inner side standing a little away from the galea, woolly; galea 

 lance-linear, slightly curved, purple, 3 mm. long, extending imm. 

 above the lower lip: capsule oblong-ovoid, 4 mm. long, dull pale 

 brown: seeds numerous, their coats cellular. 



The type is no. 8169, collected April 12, 1906, in Madera 

 county, California, in an upland meadow near the San Joaquin 

 river about four miles above Pollasky. Professor Greene, to 

 whom specimens were submitted, identified it as his O. micran- 

 thus^ which was never described, and the original type he says 

 was no doubt destroyed in the great fire at San Francisco, since 

 it was in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 This type will also be deposited in the herbarium of the Acad- 

 emy. Whether this species is the same as the plant listed in 

 the Synoptical Flora, Supplement, page 453, as a variety "»«/<:- 

 ranthus''' of O. bidwelliae I do not know, but presumably it is. 

 The supposed "description" there is no better than a nome^t 

 nudum^ for it is impossible to identify this plant with it. Our 

 plant is not "depauperate and few flowered" compared with O. 

 bidwelliae^ neither is it with "corolla barely half the usual size." 

 The corolla tube is almost as long as that of O. bidwelliae^ hut 

 the lip is only about one-fourth the size, 



OROBANCHACEAE 



Thalesia fasciculata (Nutt.) Britton 



No. 8398, collected June 12, along the railroad near the 

 summit of Mt. Tamalpais, Marin county. A few plants were 

 picked up at intervals, but never many at any one place. 



