226 BOTANY. 



Var. LATiFLORA. The form with larger corolla, 5-6" in length, the limb 

 dilated and throat conspicuously dotted with purple.-A pretty dwarf flower 

 of earliest spring, forming bright patches of color among the sage-brush in the 

 lower valleys, the delicate inch-long stem seeming scarce able to sustain the 

 absurdly disproportionate flowers that terminate it. Carson Valley, Nevada ; 



April. (798.) 



EuNANUS^ Feemonti, DC. Prodr. 10. 374. Viscidly pubescent or 

 villous; stems 1-10' high, simple or branching from the base ; leaves 6-18" 

 long, obovate, oblong or lanceolate, attenuate to the base, entire or obscurely 

 denticulate, rather acute ; peduncles 1-4" long, shorter than the leaves ; calyx 

 3-4" long, oblong, membranous, becoming much inflated, the teetb triangular- 

 ovate, acute, subequal or the upper a little longer than the lower; corolla l-V 

 long, yellow or deep purple, with subequal retuse lobes, the throat usually 

 bearded ; style funnelform at top ; ovary oblong-linear, membranous, a little 

 exceeding the calyx.— Varying greatly in size ; early specimens have a single 

 flower, the length of which often exceeds that of the stem, while later in the 

 season they become 6' or more in height, more or less branched and with nu- 

 merous flowers. Throughout California. Frequent on the foot-hills of the 

 Washoe, Trinity, Pah-Ute and Toyabe Mountains, Nevada; 5-6,000 feet 

 altitude; April-July. (799.) 



EuNANUS BiGELOVii, Gray. Pac. R. R. Surv. 4. 121. More or less 

 viscid-pubescent, 1-6' high; cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate or broadly 

 ovate, sessile, numerous and embracing the nearly sessile flowers ; calyx 4-5" 

 long, subcampanulate, strongly plicate-angled, mouth scarcely oblique, teeth 

 unequal, triangular-subulate, pungent, rather more than half the length of the 

 tube ; corolla-tube twice longer than the calyx, limb broadly spreading, lobes 

 of equal length ; stigma entire. — Southern California and Western Arizona, 

 (Ives.) Found near Virginia City by Bloomer, and by Dr. Torrey (372) at 

 Steamboat Springs in Washoe Valley, Nevada. Judging from the descrip- 

 tion E. Tolmiei may be the same. E. Coulteri has narrow radical leaves and, 

 as well as E. Douglasii, an elongated narrow-throated herbaceous calyx and 



' EUNANUS, A. DC. Calyx tubular, 5-angled, 5-tootlied. Corolla-tube long-funnelform ; limb 

 subequally 5-cleft or bilabiate, the upper lip large, erect, deeply bifid, tie lower nearly equal or shorter ; 

 throat naked. Stamens 4, fertile ; anther-cells distinct. Style dilated and petaloid at apex, varying in 

 form. Cax>sule oblong, dehiscing looulicidally, the valves entire, bearing attached to the middle the 

 septum with the separated placentae. Seeds small, ovoid-compressed. — Dwarf annual herbs, with oppo- 

 site leaves and axillary solitary flowers, the ooroUa disproportionately large and the anthers often cruci- 

 ately approximate in pairs. 



