Orthocarpus. SCROPHULARIACEJE. 577 



two high, somewhat pubescent or in the mostly dense short spikes sometimes vil- 

 lous-hirsute : leaves from narrowly lanceolate to oblong, entire or laciniate-incised 

 into rather short and blunt lubes; the upper and the bracts more cuueate-dilated, 

 equalling the (lowers, herbaceous, the blunt tips whitish or yellowish : corolla near 

 an inch long, dull white, often purplish-tipped ; the lower lip considerably dilated. 



Pine woods ;md low grounds near the sea-shore, Monterey to Humboldt Co. , and along the 

 coast to Washington Territory. Seeds oblong, twice or thrice larger than those of the preceding, 

 to which the species is much more nearly related than to the next. 



+- -i- Filaments pubescent : upper Up of the corolla long and almost linear, obtuse 

 and hooked "t the apex, densely red-bearded; lower lip with three very small ami 

 somewfiat didymous little sacs at its broad apex, directly under and not larger than 

 the short and rounded recumbent teeth or lobes : stigma very large, depressed-capi- 

 tate : cajisule ovale. 



5. O. purpurascens, Benth. Erect, at length diffusely much branched at the 

 base, rather stunt, a span to a foot high, hirsute: leaves above the lanceolate or 

 linear base laciniatcly once or twice pinnately parted into narrow linear or filiform 

 divisions: spike dense and thick, oblong, at length cylindrical: bracts about the 

 length of the flowers ; their laciniate-lobed divisions or their tips and those of the 

 calyx-lobes crimson-purple and rose-color : corolla about an inch long, the tube 

 yellowish or whitish, the summit crimson or red. 



Common along the hills and mountains of the coast, from Monterey to Humboldt Co., so 

 abundant us to give the ground a purple hue for miles in some places : occasionally, with duller 

 or only pallid color, in sail marshes. The reddish soft and copious beard of the narrow an 1 

 hooked upper lip, which marks this species, is composed of many- and close-jointed hairs. Seeds 

 nval ; tin- loose arillit'omi coat deeply favose. 



§ 2. Lmrii- h'j, ,,/ the corolla singly saccate or nearly so, its 3 teeth cry sliort and 

 inconspicuous or obsolete; the u]i]>< r lip moderately smaller, short, ovate4ri- 

 angular ; the tube hardly if at all surpassing the calyx: stigma small and 

 entire: anthers all 2-celled : seeds with a very louse costate-reticulated coat: 

 bracts oil herbaceous. — True Ortiiocarpis. (Orthocarpus, Nutt.) 



G. O. luteus, Nutt. A span to a foot high, with strict simple or virgately 

 branched stem, minutely pubescent and more coarsely hirsute: flowers leafy-spicate : 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, entire or 3-cleft j the Moral ones similar or often broader: 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate, acute: corolla golden yellow (half an inch long), not ex- 

 ceeding the flora] leaves or bracts ; the lips of equal length and not very different 

 in si/e. — 0. strictus, Benth. ; Hook. Fl. ii. t. 172. 



Dry banks and plains, along the northeastern borders of the State (('arson and Lake Washoe, 

 Nevada, Anderson, Torrey); thence northward and eastward to I'.ritidi i ulumbia and to the 

 Upper Mississippi. 



7. O. tenuifolius, Benth. A span or move high, somewhat hairy or glabrate : 

 flowers in a dense thick spike : leave- or at least the upper ones bispid-ciliate ; the 

 lower linear and mostly 3 5 cleft, wit b the divisions linear-filiform ; the floral or 

 bracts broadly ovate, incisely 2-3-cleft or toothed, or often entire, becoming thin 

 and reticulated in age, usually imbricated over the flowers or fruit: calyx-teeth 

 subulate: corolla purplish; the upper lip becoming longer, slightly booked at 

 the tip.- Bartsia tenuifolia, Pursh. 0. imbricatus, Watson. Bot. King Exp. 158. 



Dry ridges, Sierra Nevada, near Summit (K. I.. Oreene), and Lassen's Peak (Lemmon); thence 



i" British Columbia and Montana. Spikes ft I to at length 3 or 4 inches long; tho broad 



imhrii tted bracts Btrikingh and abruptly different from the leaves below. The Califoniian 

 Bpeuimons are of the smoother form, very atari} thai described •< atus, 



8. O. bracteosus, Benth. In foliage and aspect resembling the preceding, but 

 the bracts deeply 3-clefl and with triangular lanceolate lobes (their pubescence rather 

 hirsute), shorter than the bright rose-purple corolla : low,!- lip of this ampler and 

 more saccate ; the upper with narrower and more decide lly I Iced tip. 



