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ascending, longitudinally striate, and narrowly margined on the ventral side.— 

 Collected only by Tolmie in Southern Idaho, but not rare in the Wahsatch 

 Mountains, Utah ; 6-9,000 feet altitude ; June-August. The radicle is 

 described by Bentham in his generic character as inferior ; in this species as 

 in the following it is, at least sometimes, superior. (814.) 



Oethocaepus luteos, Nutt. DC. Prodr. 10. 536. Somewhat resem- 

 bling the last, but hispid, with the branches erect and strict ; spikes elon- 

 gated and rather dense ; bracts oblong or ovate, entire or 3-lobed or very 

 rarely 5-lobed, the segments acute or obtusish ; calyx 3-4" long, the lance- 

 olate or ovate acute teeth a little shorter than the tube ; corolla pubescent 

 and the margins of the galea more hairy, little exceeding the bracts ; cap- 

 sule 3" long, oblong, obtuse, many-seeded ; seeds small. — Ovary about 36- 

 ovuled, the ovules more or less pendulous, and orthotropous, campylotropous-. 

 reniform or anatropous even in the same ovary. From the Saskatchewan 

 and Red River of the North to Washington Territory and southward in the 

 Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. Washoe and Ruby Valleys, Nevada ; 

 4,500-6,000 feet altitude; July-September. (815.) 



Oethocaepus pilosus. Perennial (?), pilose-pubescent ; stems rather 

 stout, ascending, branched, 10' high ; leaves 2-3' long, lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 divaricately few-lobed, the middle lobe broad, dilated and rounded at the 

 apex ; calyx cleft nearly to the base anteriorly, 4-lobed to the middle, nearly 

 equaling the (9" long) puberulent yellowish corolla ; lip 3-plicate, mode- 

 rately dilated, the narrow oblong teeth nearly half shorter than the straight 

 acute galea ; capsule 4" long, oblong, acute ; seeds small, pitted. — Collected 

 only by Stretch in Washoe Valley, Nevada ; a single specimen in Herb. 

 Torrey. 



CoEDYLANTHUS ^ CAPiTATUS, Nutt. DC. Prodr. 10. 597. Gray, I. c, 

 382. Erect, 1-2° high, branched, pilose-pubescent ; leaves pinnatifid, 3- 

 cleft or mostly entire, floral ones 3-cleft or subpinnatifid ; flowers capitate 



' COEDYLANTHUS, Nutt. Calyx l-S-leaved, spathe-like, the leaves nerved, entire, or the upper 

 one emarginate or rarely 2-cleft. Corolla tubular, slightly dilated upward ; lips short, rarely unequal 

 in length, the lower hroad and with three very obtuse and short crenations. Stamens (4 or sometimes 2) 

 as in Orthocarpm, Anther-cells either pUose-ciliate or with the base and apex minutely bearded. Style 

 Usually with an uncinately inflexed apex, thickened beneath the entire terminal stigma. Ovules several, 

 ascending, almost orthotropous with a minute beak that becomes reflexed, or campylotropus-reuiform. 

 Capsule compressed, loculicidal. Seeds few or rather numerous, the nucleus small in comparison with 

 the testa, narrow, nearly straight, apioulate ; radicle superior. — Annual branching herbs with narrow 

 leaves, the yellow or dull-purple flowers capitate, spicate or in panicles at the extremities of the branches. 

 Gray, Proc. Amer. AeaH. 7. 381. 



