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OrThocarpus dkNvSiki.orus Bcntli, vScropli. Ind. 13. 1835. 



No. 8492, collected May i, on the sand hills beyond Ca5,- 

 troville, Monterey county, elevation perhaps 200 feet, on the 

 Monterey branch of the railroad. This sanrl hill form, which is 

 also found about San Francisco, has o;reen bracts tipped with 

 white, and seems to be confined to the immediate vicinity of tl^e 

 sea. 



OrThocarpus faucibarbatus Gray, Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 121. 



^ 1857- 

 No. 8491, collected May i, at Castroville, Monterey county, 



elevation less than 100 feet, where it is plentiful in meadows. 



This is a white flowered form fading pinkish. The calyx lobes 



seem to be shorter than the typical yellow flowered form first 



collected at Corte Madera, Marin county, where it is common in 



grassy places. 



OrThocarpus uthospermoidrs Benth. vScroph. Ind. 12. 1835. 

 No. 8579, collected May 28, above Crystal Spring.s, San 

 Mateo county, on the Half Moon Bay road, elevation 450 feet, 

 in damp grassy places in a field. These plants are more strict 

 and slender with smaller more greenish-yellow flowers than are 

 specimens collected north of the Bay. In habit this species is 

 not a Triphysaria, neither are the flowers of the proper shape. 



OrThocarpus purpurascens Benth. 



No. 8515, collected May 7, in level fields between LosGatos 

 and Campbell, Santa Clara county, elevation 390 feet. This is 

 the ordinary purple bracted form. The species has an interest- 

 ing distribution in Santa Clara county. It is rather common in 

 the valley, almost absent from the foothills of the Santa Cruz 

 mountains, at least about Los Gatos and Saratoga, but appears 

 at considerable elevations in the mountains east of the valley 

 on the Mt. Hamilton road, occurring up to at least 2000 feet. 



