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Orthocarpus plsillus Benth. Scropli. Ind, 12. 1835. 



No. 8440, collected April 20, in San Mateo county in grassy 

 places along the Ocean Shore tracks not far from Lake Merced, 

 elevation 300 feet. Why this species is included in Triphysaria 

 is not clear to me. It has the habit of those species, and that is 

 all. The flower is far from being similar, as one may easily see 

 even from dried specimens. The type was collected by Douglas 

 somewhere in the middle coast region of California. 



No. 8490, collected May i, at Castroville, Monterey county, 

 elevation less than 100 feet, in meadows. Jepson makes no 

 mention in his Flora of having seen this species from south of 

 San Francisco. It is plentiful on the hills west of Los Gatos in 

 gravelly ground. 



Orthocarpus versicolor (F. M.) Greene, Manual 283. 189^1. 



Triphysaria versicolor F. & M. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3: 

 52- 1835. 



No. 8453, collected April 20, in San Mateo county in-sandy 

 ground near Ocean View, where it is plentiful, coloring great 

 areas in early spring. The flowers here are mostly white or 

 pink tinged, occasionally a plant with the flowers all pale rose, 

 and this latter is no more than a mere color variation. But at 

 Fort Ross, in Sonoma county, where it is also abundant the 

 flower is two-colored from the beginning. In whatever form it 

 occurs, it is quite distinct from O. eriantJms^ a yellow flowered 

 species inhabiting interior regions more remote from the sea. 



Pentstemon heterophyllus Lindl. Bot. Reg. 33: pi. 1899. 

 1836. 

 No. 8516, collected May 10, near the summit of the grade 

 between Hall's valley and Smith creek, Santa Clara county, ele- 

 vation 2000 feet, on steep gravelly banks. The plant is some- 

 what shrubby at base, nearly two feet high, freely branched. 

 "A. native of California, where the seeds were collected by Mr. 

 Douglas." The seeds collected in California were sent from 

 Monterey, and are supposed to have been collected in that neigh- 

 borhood, but some of them were undoubtedlv obtained elsewhere. 



