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7. C. sparsiflora, Fischer & Meyer. Slender, diffuse or erect, a span to a foot 

 high : upper leaves Linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, seldom tapering at La.se, 

 merely opposite, or the minute upper floral ones in threes : pedicels solitary; in 

 pairs, or some of the upper in whorls of three, longer or shorter than the flower: 

 calyx-lobes from ovate to deltoid-lanceolate : corolla (rnustly violet) strongly de- 

 elinedj the inflated saccate throat very oblique on the tube, about the length of the 

 upper lip : filaments hairy below: gland sessile and projecting forwards, cylindrical- 

 subulate. — 1ml. Sum. Petersb. (1835) ii. 33. C. parvijlora, var. sparsiflora, Benth. 

 in DC. C. solitaria, Kellogg, 1. c. ii. 10. 



Shaded hillsides, &c., from near San Francisco northward. Corolla 4 to 6 lines long: the upper 

 lip and the middle lulu- of the lower commonly yellowish and purple-dotted, or paler than the 

 ample and violet lateral lobes. Calyx-tube commonly tinged with purple. 



8. C. parviflora, Dougl. Low, at length diffuse, a span high : leaves mostly 

 id dung or lanceolate ; the upper narrowed at base and entire; the floral often in 

 threes or fours or even fives : pedicels 1 to 5, mostly longer than the small flowers : 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, a little shorter than the blue moderately oblique corolla, the 

 oblong gibbous-saccate throat of which is longer than the lips: filaments all gla- 

 brous : gland small and capitate, short-stipitate : stigma 2-cleft. — Lindl. Bot. Beg. 

 t. 1802; Hook. Fl. ii. U4, by misprint as C. pauciflwa. C. minima, Nutt. in Jour. 

 Acad. Philad. vii. 47. 



Shady moist grounds, from the coast north of San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada ; thence 



northward to Washington Territory and Lake Superior. Corolla '2 to 4 lines long, rather narrow. 

 N'uttall 'a 0. minima is a depauperate form, early flowering from the seed, with corolla (:i or 4 

 lines long) fully twice the length of the shortish calyx. 



-t- +- Glandular: leaves entire, narrow: lobes of the calyx obtuse, shorter than the 



capsule. 



9. C. Torreyi, < tray. Slender, erect, a span or so high, divergently branched : 

 Leaves thickish; the lowest narrowly spatulate ; the others linear with a tapering 

 base, mainly opposite, or the floral in threes or fours; all the uppermost of these 

 reduced to minute bracts: pedicels 2 to 7 in a whorl, rather longer than the flowers: 

 corolla deep violet-blue, almost thrice the length of the calyx, moderately declined, 

 the gibbous throat with the tube about the length of the lower lip : filaments gla- 

 brous: gland sessile, subulate. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. .">7S. 



Common in the higher parts of the sierra Nevada, from Mariposa Co. to Nevada Co., '/' 

 Bolander, Watson, &c. Somewhat viscid, beset with minute dark glands. Corolla :'. or 4 lines 

 long : the plaits forming the margins of tie- sac of the lower lip terminating below in a spur-like 

 projection. Seeda oblong, more terete than usual, and lege for tin' size of the capsule, a line 

 long. 



, TONELLA, Nutt. 

 Corolla obscurely bilabiate; the 5 more or less unetpial lobes somewhat rotately 

 ling, the lower ind eomplieate nor enclosing the soon ascending stamens and 

 Btyle; the tube slightly gibbous posteriorly. Ovules and seeds from one to four 

 in each eell. Cauline leaves mainly ternately divided or 3-parted. Otherwise as 

 in Collinsia. — Nutt. ex Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 593 ; Gray, Proc Am. Acad. vii. 

 378, & xi. 92. 



I. T. collinsioides, Nutt, 1. r. Slender annual, diffusely branched from the 

 base, nearly glabrous: branches filiform, n span ton fool long: radical and lowest 

 cauline leaves ..vale or roundish, somewhat lobed, crenate or - quarter to 



half an inch long), on slender petioles; the others shorter petioled or sessile, •"> parted 



or divided into oblong or lam late divisions or leaflets ; the floral ones sometimes 



in whorls of three, and the uppermost simple, and shorter than the Blender filiform 

 pedicels ; these solitary, or in pairs, or sometimes 3 in a whorl : flowers minute, at 



