228 BOTANY. 



Territory, and in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. East Humboldt and 

 Clover Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-9,000 feet 

 altitude; July-September. (805.) 



Veronica seepyllifolia, L. " From Unalaska southward throughout 

 the continent ;" reported, west of the Mississippi, from Colorado and Idaho. 

 In the Wahsatch and Uintas; 8-9,000 feet altitude; July, August. Sub- 

 alpine and rare. (806.) 



Veronica peeegrina, L. From Canada to the Great Slave Lake, the 

 Upper Missouri, and Northern California, and southward throughout the 

 continent. Rather frequent through Nevada and Utah; 4,500-6,500 feet 

 altitude; May-September. (807.) 



Castilleia LINARIJ5F0LIA, Beuth. DC. Pwdr. 10. 232. Graijs Rev. 

 Castil, Amer. Jour. 8ci., n. s., 34 335. Glabrous or loosely woolly-pubes- 

 cent above ; leaves long and usually linear, entire or often 3-cleftor 3-parted, 

 narrowed at base, the floral ones scarlet-colored and acute ; spike inter- 

 rupted ; calyx incurved, deeply cleft anteriorly, subulately 4-toothed at the 

 apex ; galea of the corolla elongated and usually much exserted, the lobes of 

 the lower lip linear-subulate.— Stems lJ-2° high, (4-6°, Thurber,) from a 

 woody base, simple or branched, somewhat glaucous, shining, rarely pubes- 

 cent throughout ; leaves 1-3' long, occasionally 3-4" broad, 1-nerved or 

 more or less 3-nerved at base ; flowers sessile or upon short peduncles, the 

 calyx J-1' long, usually exceeding the bracts, colored ; corolla 1-2' long, 

 nearly glabrous, bright scarlet, the yellow galea usually 1' or more in length 

 or sometimes scarcely exsert. A showy and well-marked species, growing 

 on dry rocky mountain sides. Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. 

 Washoe, East and West Humboldt and Toyabe Mountains, Nevada, and in 

 the Wahsatch ; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (808.) 



Castilleia afpinis, H. & A. Gray, I. c, 336. Root annual or bien- 

 nial ; hirsutely pubescent or sometimes nearly glabrous ; leaves linear or 

 lanceolate-attenuate, the floral ones rarely 3-cleft; flowers more or less 

 pedicelled ; calyx cleft to the middle, both above and below, the segments 

 narrow, usually 2-cleft or emarginate ; galea elongated, falcate, the lip very 

 short. — California ; Arizona, (Ives.) Var. minor. Gray. The floral leaves 

 colored only at the tips ; calyx green and herbaceous ; galea of the pale cor- 

 olla but 3-4" long and little exceeding the calyx. — Northern Mexico and 

 New Mexico. The numerous specimens of the collection show a slender 



