304 SCBOPHULAEIACE^. Cordylanfhus. 



Var. brevibracteatus, Gray, is glabrous up to the floral leaves, these hispid-cili- 

 ate with short bristles, also shorter and fewer, as are the flowers in the head. — Bot. Calif, 

 i. 622. — Soda spring, Kern Co., Eothrock. 

 C. pilosus, Gray. Panieulately branched, 2 to 4 feet high, soft-villous throughout, 

 somewhat viscid, no rigid hairs : leaves linear, all but the floral entire ; these commonly 

 3-parted and with emarginate or callous-3-toothed tip : flowers few in the irregular termi- 

 nal clusters, or some lateral and solitary ; corolla yellowish or purplish, half inch or more 

 long. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 383, & Bot. Calif, i. 681.— W. California, in open dry ground 

 from Santa Clara Co. northward. 



Var. Bolanderi, Gray, 1. c. Lower, less pilose, more viscid or glandular : flowers 



all scattered. — Mendocino Co., Bolander. Also from Plumas Co. to Tuolumne Co. in the 

 foothills of the Sierra. 



s C. tenuis, Gray, 1. c. Effiusely paniculate, a foot or two high, minutely cinereous-puber- 

 ulent, at summit sometimes more pubescent and glandular : leaves very narrowly linear, 

 entire : flowers scattered along the almost filiform branches, or some loosely clustered at 

 their summit: flowers as of the preceding or smaller and the upper sepal narrower. — Dry 

 ground, California from the mountains of Mendocino Co. to Lake Tahoe, and adjacent 

 borders of Nevada. 



M— -^ Stamens 2 : anthers 1-celled : filaments nearly glabrous ; posterior division of calyx only 

 2-nerved, 2-cle£t at apex : seeds few, minutely favose. 



C. capitatus, Nutt. A foot or two high, panieulately much branched, soft-pubescent 

 and cinereous : leaves very narrowly linear, or those subtending the several-flowered ter- 

 minal head broader and 3-5-cleft : corolla purplish, half inch long : capsule 8-seeded. — 

 Benth. 1. c. 597; Watson, Bot. King, 231, 459; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. c — S. Idaho and N. 

 Nevada, Nuttall, }Watson. 



§3. HBMisrfoiA, Gray, I.e. Calyx monophyllous ; the anterior division 

 wanting : flowers strictly sessile in the axil of a clasping bract or leaf, ebracteolate : 

 corolla purplish or yellowish : no callous gland at the tip of leaves : herbage not 

 glandular : seeds (those of O. maritimus not seen mature) rather numerous, 

 scarious-appendaged ; the coat cellular-favose. 



* Stamens 2 : anthers 2-celled : filaments glabrous : seeds somewhat reniform. 

 C. mollis. Gray. Barely a foot high, rather stout, much branched, villous-hirsute : 



leaves and bracts oblong-linear, obtuse, entire or the upper laciniate-toothed or pinnatifid : 



flowers in a thickish short spike : corolla three-fourths inch long. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 



384, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Salt marshes of San Francisco Bay, California, around Yallejo, 



Wright, Greene. 



* * Stamens 4 : anthers of longer stamens 2-celled, of the shorter with only the small lower cell : 

 filaments glabrous or nearly so : leaves and even bracts all entire, pale or canescent; lower ones 

 linear; upper, and especially the loosely imbricated bracts, lanceolate or broader and concave or 

 somewhat conduplicate : inflorescence at first capitate, becoming short-spicate. 



• C. maritimus, Nutt. 1. c. A span or two high, corymbosely branched, cinereous-pubes- 

 cent: leaves glabrate, slightly fleshy: pairs of filaments very unequal. — Gray, 1. c. — 

 California, in sandy salt marshes, from San Diego to San Francisco Bay. 

 C. canescens. Gray, 1. c. A foot or less high, corymbosely much branched, canescent 

 with soft and short villous pubescence : uppermost leaves and bracts from oblong- to 

 ovate-lanceolate : smaller filaments sometimes obscurely hairy. — Saline soil. Sierra Nevada, 

 on the eastern border of California to Salt Lake, Utah. 



Var. Parryi. A slender form, with narrower bracts and sparser flowers : smaller 

 filaments with some scattered hairs. — C. Parryi, Watson in Am. Naturalist, ix. 346. — 

 S. W. Utah, Parry, Palmer. 



* * * Stfimens 4 : anthers all 2-relled : filaments villous : leaves and bracts mostly 3-5-parted 

 into linear-filiform divisions : habit and inflorescence of § A<Ienostegia. 



C. Kingii, W^atson. A foot or less high, diffusely branched, viscid-pubescent or villous : 

 leaves 1 or 2 inches long : flowers loosely glomerate or somewhat scattered at the summit 

 of the slender branchlets : calyx 4-6-nerved ; corolla less than an inch long, purplish. — 

 Bot. King, 233, t. 22. — W. Nevada, Watson. S, Utah, Parry, Siler. S. W. Colorado, 

 Brandegee. 



