Pentslemon. SCROPHULARIACE.E. 559 



11. P. Clevelandi, Cray. About 3 feet high, rather leafy: leaves oblong, irreg- 

 ularly and sharply toothed (2 inches long); the floral merely small ovate-subulate 

 bracts of the Loose and naked virgate panicle: few-flowered peduncles and pedicels 

 slender: calyx herbaceous; the lobes ovate: corolla crimson (three fourths of an 

 inch long), tubular-funnelform, distinctly bilabiate ; the lobes barely one quarter 

 of i\\a length of the tube including the throat : sterile filament moderately bearded 

 at and below the dilated tip. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 94. 



Caftan Tantillas, in Lower California, about 25 miles below the State boundary {Cleveland, 

 Palmer) ; east of San Bernardino, Parry. 



12. P. acuminatUS, DougL A foot or so high, leafy: leaves from ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate (an inch or two long), entire; the upper and the floral ones inclined 

 tube cordate-clasping : flowers numerous in a long ami mostly interrupted virgate 

 spike like panicle, the base of which is usually leafy, mostly several- in the floriferous 

 axils : pedicels and especially the peduncles short : lobes of the calyx narrow or 

 acuminate: corolla lilac-purple .or violet, with open throat and widely spreading 

 lobes: sterile filament strongly bearded at the dilated tip (rarely naked) : capsule 

 firm-coriaceous and acuminate. — Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1285. P. nitidus, Dougl. 

 P. Fendleri, Gray in Pacif. R Rep. ii. 168, t. 5. 



Near Huinlinl.lt Lake, Nevada, Watson. Therefore not improbably reaching the borders of 

 the State. A neat species, widely diffused northward and eastward through the interior region 

 to and beyond the Rocky Mountains. 



++ ++ ++ Corolla half an inch or less in length, blue, purplish, or whitish, moderately 

 enlarging above ; the roundish lobes spreading. 



= Leaves serrate or toothed. 



13. P. deustus, DougL A span to a foot high, in tufts from an almost woody 

 branching base, glabrous : leaves all sessile, from ovate to linear-oblong, seldom over 

 an inch long, sharply serrate with many or rarely few narrow teeth (occasionally 

 some of them entire) : narrow and virgate or spike-like panicle mostly leafy below : 

 the clusters several— many-flowered, close: peduncles and pedicels short: corolla 

 cream-color or buff, sometimes with a tinge of rose : sterile filament naked. — Lindl. 

 13ot. Reg. t. 1318. P. heteraniler, Ton-. & Cray, in Pacif. R, Rep. ii. 12:!. t. 8. 



Dry rocks and banks, eastern side of the Sierra Nevada (Sierra Valley, Lemmon, &c), to the 

 interior borders of liritish ( 'olunibia and Wyoming Ten*. Varies much in the foliage and more 



or less dense <>r interrupted inflorescence; also in the sepals, which are c monl] lancei 



and rather long, sometimes sin. iter, rarely almost ovate. /'. hettrandcr is a narrow-leaved and 

 strict form, from Beckwith's Pass, in which the sterile filamenl was found to bo anthoriferous ; 



but this asionally happens in cultivated plants of other species, and has not been found a 



second time in this. 



1'. ovatus, Dougl. Bot. Mag. t. 2903, a native of the woods of Oregon, may reach California : 

 it is a loot or two lii.^li, minutely pubescent, lias thiniiisb and bright green ovate or somewhat 

 cordate and acutely serrate leaves, ami a rather open naked panicle of blue flowers. 



= = Leaves quite <i<tire. 



II. P. G-airdneri, Hook. A span high, in tufts from a somewhai w ly base, 



minutely cinereous-puberulent throughout : leaves all linear or the radical linear 

 spatulate, seldom an bach long, the margins soon revolute: flowers few and almost 



simply racemose: calyx somewhat glandular: sterile filament bearded down one 

 side. Benth. in I M '. Prodr. x. 321. 



Virginia • lity, Nevada (Bloom r), doubtless also within the State line ; also in the dry interior 

 of i iregon. 



I". LA.MC1FOLIU8, Hook. .v. Am., a still dwarfer species, wholly glabrous, with simple stems 

 and loaves almost filiform, sparingly inhabits the same interior region, and maj roai h the north- 

 oastoi n bordet i "i the State. 



P, iMDlot i s, 'ron.. also «iih filiform leaves and racemose flowers, bat tall, rand branching, 

 i.l more south. in range through the interior, mid is Hot known farther wosl thin Southern 

 Utah. 



