Orlhocarpus. SCROPHULARIACE-S;. 301 



cuneate-dilated, shorter than the flowers, the divergent lobes broadly lanceolate : corolla 

 rose-purple, half inch long ; tube moderately longer than the calyx : galea with minute 

 inrtexed tip. — Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Dry ground, Brit. Columbia to Oregon and northern 

 portion of Sierra Nevada, California. 



' O. lliteus, Nutt. Pubescent and hirsute, sometimes viscid : stem strict, a span to a foot 

 high : leaves from linear to lanceolate, occasionally 3-cleft : bracts of the dense spike 

 broader or with more dilated base, completely herbaceous, mostly 3-cleft, about equalling - 

 the flowers : corolla golden yellow, less than half inch long, twice or thrice the length of 

 the calyx ; tip of galea obtuse and straight. — Gen. ii. 57. 0. strictus, Benth. 1. c. ; Hook. 

 Fl. ii. 104, t. 172. — Plains, &c., X. Minnesota and Saskatchewan to Colorado, eastern 

 borders of California, and Brit. Columbia. 

 O. Tolmiei, Hook. & Arn. Puberulent, a span or two high, loosely branched: leaves 

 narrowly lanceolate-linear, chiefly entire : bracts of the small and short spikes little 

 dilated, often 3-cleft, the upper shorter than the flowers : corolla bright yellow, half inch 

 long, 3 or 4 times longer than the calyx ; minute tip of galea inflexed. — Bot. Beech. 379 ; 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 536; Watson, Bot. King, 230. — Utah, m the Wahsatch Mountains, 

 to S. Idaho. 



^— Spike looser, few-flow^ered : seeds with loose reticulated coat. 



~0. pvirpureo-albus, Gray. Minutely pubescent, somewliat viscid, simple or branched, 

 a span or two high : leaves entire or mostly 3-cleft, filiform ; bracts similar or somewhat 

 dilated at base : corolla three-fourths inch long, purple and often partly wliite, with tube 

 twice or thrice the length of the calyx ; tip of galea raucroniform, inflexed. — Watson, Bot. 

 King, 458; Bot. Calif. 1. c. — New Mexico and S. Utah, Woodhouse, Xeioberri/, Parry, 

 Mi'S. Thompson, 



§ 3. TRiPHYsiRiA, Benth. Corolla with conspicuously trisaccate lip very 

 much larger than the slender straight galea ; its teeth minute or small ; tube fili- 

 form or slender : stigma capitate, sometimes 2-lobed : bracts all herbaceous and 

 similar to the leaves (or with somewhat colored tips in two species) : root annual. 

 — Tnphysaria, Fisch. & Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petrop. ii. 52. 



* Anthers 1-celled : lip of corolla saccately 3-lobed from the end : seed-coat close, conformed to the 

 nucleus, apiculate at one or both ends. 



•i— Stamens early escaping from their enclosure in the less involute oblong-lanceolate galea. 

 O. pUsiUus, Benth. Small and weak or diffuse, branched from the base, a span or less 

 high, somewhat pubescent: leaves once or twice pinnatifld and bracts 3-5-parted into fili- 

 form or setaceous divisions : flowers scattered, small and inconspicuous, shorter than the 

 bracts : corolla purplish, 2 or 3 lines long ; tube not surpassing tlie calyx ; lip moderately 

 3-lobed, beardless : capsule globose. — Scroph. Ind. 12, &, DC. 1. c. ; Gray, Bot. Calif. 

 i. 578. — Low ground, San Francisco Bay to Oregon. 

 -O. floribundus, Benth. 1. c. Erect, a span or more high, branched above, almost 

 glabrous : upper part of leaves pinnately parted into linear-filiform divisions, some again 

 cleft : bracts of the mostly dense many-flowered spike 3-5-clef t and dilated at base ; upper 

 ones not surpassing the calyx : corolla white or cream-color, half inch long ; tube twice 

 the length of calyx ; lip with 3 divergent oval sacs, 2 hairy lines within ; the teeth lanceo- 

 late, erect, scarious. — Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. u. Chloropyron palustre, Behr in Proc. Calif. 

 Acad. i. 62, 66 ? — Hillsides, California, around San Francisco Bay, &e. 



^— -t— Stamens more strictlj' enclo?ed in the acute involute-subulate galea: lip of 3 obovate or 

 globular-inriated sacs, not more than a quarter of the length of the filiform and mostly densely 

 pubescent tube, the two folds separating the sacs within villous-bearded : flowers numerous in a 

 rather dense spike: upper bracts not exceeding the cahrx; lower and the leaves pinnately parted 

 above the broader entire base into setaceous or filiform divisions. 



O. erianthus, Benth. 1. c. Erect, a span or more high, fastigiately much branched, 

 pubescent : corolla sulphur-color, with slightly falcate galea brown-purple : tube 6 to 8 

 lines long, thrice the length of the calyx. — Low grounds, coast of California, from Mon- 

 terey northward. 



Var. roseus. Gray, 1. c. Corolla rose-colored, or probably cream-colored changing 



to rose-purple ; the tube sliorter. — Triphysaria versicolor, Fisch. & Meyer, 1. c. ? — Sandy 

 fields, Noyo, Mendocino Co., Bolander, &c. 



