SCROPHULARIACER. (FIGWORT FAMILY.) 91 
* Flowers short-pediceled or nearly sessile, verticillate. 
1, C. bicolor, Benth. A foot or more high; leaves oblong-lanceolate, the upper 
usually ovate-lanceolate and sessile by a nervose veined base; pedicels shorter than the 
acute lobes of the calyx; the lower lip or the corolla violet or rose-purple and the upper 
paler to nearly white; the saccate throat very oblique to the true tube, fully as broad as 
long; gland short.—The most showy species, with flowers nearly an inch long. 
2. C. tinctoria, Hartw. Foliage, etc., like the preceding; generally more viscid- 
pubescent; flowers almost sessile; corolla yellowish, cream-color, or white, usually with 
purple dots or lines; upper lip very short.—East side of Sacramento Valley. 
3. C. bartsizfolia, Benth. Puberulent and somewhat glandular; leaves from ovate. 
oblong to linear; flower-whorls 2 to 5, rarely only one; the lateral lobes of the lower lip 
emarginate or obcordate; gland elongated. Flowers nearly as large as the preceding, 
purplish, pale violet, or whitish; upper lip with a transverse callosity at the origin of the 
limb. 
4, ©. Greenei, Gr. Upper lip of the violet purple corolla about half the length of 
the lower, crested below with a pair of callous teeth on each side connected by a ridge. 
Corolla & lines long.—Lake County. 
* * Flowers on slender pedicels, solitary or umbellate-whorled. 
6. C. sparsiflora, Fisch, & Mey. Slender; upper leaves linear-oblong or linear- 
lanceolate, merely opposite or the upper minute floral bracts in threes; pedicels solitary 
in the axils, longer or shorter than the flower which is 4 to 8 lines long; corolla mostly 
violet; the upper lip and the middle lobe of the lower commonly yellowish and purple- 
dotted; calyx usually purple-tinged. 
7. C. parviflora, Dougl. Low, at length diffuse about a span high; the blue, or 
partly white flowers solitary or 2 to 5 in a whorl, 2 to 4 lines long; stigma cleft, gland 
capitate, short-stipitate. 
5. PENTSTEMON, Mitch. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla with a conspicuous mostly elongated or ventricose tube; the 
limb more or less bilabiate; upper lip 2-lobed; the lower 3-cleft, recurved or spreading. — 
The conspicuous sterile filament strongly marks the genus, remarkable for its many bean- 
tiful species. (See ADDENDA.) 
1. P. Menziesii, Hook. Tufted at the woody base, a span to afoot high; leaves oval 
or ovate, a half to an inch long; corolla about an inch long, pink-red; anthers with the 
diverging cells long-woolly. Mt. St. Helena, Mrs. M. L. Swett. 
2. P. corymbosus, Benth. <A foot or two high, soft-pubescent or nearly smooth, 
leafy to the tip; corolla scarlet, an inch long; anthers smooth; steril filament, bearded 
down one side. 
3. BP. breviflorus, Lindl. 3 to 6 ft. high, with long, slender, flowering branches; 
torolla yellowish with flesh-color, striped within with pink, about half an inch long; the 
upper lip beset with long viscid hairs; sterile filament naked. 
