230 BOTAinr. 



East Humboldt and Clover Mountains, Nevada; 5 9,000 feet altitude ; July 

 September. (812.) 



Castilleia flava. Perennial; stems numerous, 10-15' high, villous- 

 pubescent at base, canescently puberulent above, simple or branched ; leaves 

 with a short woolly pubescence, linear, entire, or the uppermost with a few 

 linear lobes, the floral ones somewhat dilated and colored, (yellow,) deeply 

 3-cleft, the lanceolate lobes equaling the calyx ; spikes dense, elongated, 

 3-6' long ; calyx 2-cleft, the anterior fissure reaching to below the middle, 

 twice deeper than the posterior one, the lobes 2-toothed ; the yellowish- 

 green galea 4" long, exserted its whole length, the lip very short.— Ap- 

 proaching C. purpurea and Integra. Bear River Valley, near the Uintas ; 

 7,000 feet altitude ; July. (813.) 



Orthocaepus^ hispidus, Benth. DC. Prodr. 10. 535. Pilose-pubes- 

 cent ; stems 4-12' high, strict, rather slender, simple or branched ; leaves 

 linear to ovate-lanceolate and few-lobed, or linear and entire ; spike dense, 

 interrupted below ; bracts dilated, about equahng the flowers, coarsely and 

 acutely 5-lobed ; calyx 3-4" long, the lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube ; 

 corolla 5-9" long, yellow, puberulent or glabrous, the galea subulate, very 

 acute, straight, exceeding the somewhat saccate lip ; teeth very short ; capsule 

 3" long, ovate. — Collected on the Columbia River by Douglas and Lyall, in 

 the Klamath Valley by Cronkhite, and near Carson City, Nevada, by Dr. 

 Anderson. 



Oethocaepus Tolmiei, H. & a. DG. Prodr. 10. 536. Erect, pu- 

 berulent, 4-18' high, the branches virgate, spreading; leaves linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, 1-2' long, entire or rarely incised, the bracts divaricately 3- 

 cleft, the lobes acuminate ; spikes short, (1-2',) rather dense ; calyx 2-3" 

 long, the tube twice exceeding the ovate-lanceolate teeth ; corolla 4-6" long, 

 bright yellow, glabrous, the galea uncinate, little exceeding the narrowly 

 saccate 3-phcate lip, slightly hairy on the margins, the teeth very short ; 

 capsule oblong, 2" long, retuse, compressed ; seeds 4-6, oblong, 1" long, 



1 OETHOCAEPUS, Nott. Calyx tubular-oampanulate, membranous at base, usually subequaUy 

 4-cleft or 4-tootlied. CoToUa-tube slender ; galea erect, entire, channeled, the margin inflexed ; lower 

 lip shorter, 3-plicate or 3-saccate, subentire at the apex or with three erect teeth. Stamens with one 

 anther-cell fixed by the middle, the other pendulous, smaller, or wanting. Capsule looulicidal. Seeds 

 usually numerous and small, with a loose reticulated or pitted testa, the radicle usually pointing toward 

 the hilum.— Annual herbs, (perennial in 0. pallescens,) with alternate leaves mostly incised toward the 

 apex, the flowers sessile or short-pediceled in rather close terminal leafy spikes, the bracts mostly 5-7- 

 lobed. From the Eocky Mountains westward to the Pacific. Benth., in DG. Prodr. 



