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length of the tube; flowers hirger (6 lines long). — Napa Valley, Los 

 Guiliocos Valley, and Knight's Valley. Apr. 



Var. Franciscana (C. Franciscana Bioletti). Stout, J to IJ ft. 

 high; leaves ovate-lanceolate, the upper sessile; flowers sometimes 3 

 to 5 in a whorl; corolla J in. long; glands subulate, bearing a rudi- 

 ment of an anther; seeds 2 to 12 in each cell. — Mission Hills (San 

 Francisco Co. ) to Millbrae (San Mateo Co.). Apr.-May. Verging 

 in habit and character towards C. bicolor. 



2. C. tinctoria Hartweg. Stoutish and often difi'usely branching; 

 herbage glandular-viscid above, at least on the branches, and impart- 

 ing a brownish stain; lower leaves oblong to lanceolate, with short 

 petioles, the upper ovate or triangular-lanceolate, sessile by a broad or 

 subcordate base, serrate or entire; corolla yellowish, or cream-color 

 varying to white, marked with purple lines and dots; throat very 

 strongly saccate-ventricose, forming a right angle with the tube; 

 upper lip and its lobes very short; seeds small, smoothish. 



Wooded hillsides; rare in the Coast Ranges (Howell Mountain, 

 Kenwood, Mt. Diablo); common in the Sierra Foothills (where first 

 collected by Hartweg in 1846). June. Examination of fresh mate- 

 lial may show in some cases as obvious a transverse ridge at base of 

 upper lip as in next. 



3. C. bicolor Benth. Chinese Houses. Simple or branching 

 from the middle, ^ to IJ ft. high, glabrous or finely pubescent and 

 often viscid above; leaves broadly oblong, or the upper narrowed 

 from the broad base to the apex, serrulate, 2 in. long or less; pedicels 

 shorter than the oblong-acute or lanceolate calyx-lobes; corolla rather 

 less than 1 in. long, with lower lip violet or rose-purple, the upper 

 lilac or white, a little shorter than the lower, the lobes recurved- 

 spreading and with low but distinct crests at the point of junctir'n 

 with the tube; saccate throat very oblique to the tube, bristly within, 

 usually with 3 longitudinal purple lines beneath each lobe of the 

 upper lip; whole corolla sometimes varying to white; gland conical; 

 seeds reticulate-rugose, about 6 in each cell. 



Very common in the edges of woods: Coast Eanges; Sierra Nevada; 

 Southern California. Also " alkaline plain, Tulare," Davy. Apr.- 

 June. 



i. C. bartsiaefolia Benth. Nine in. high or less, finely pubeiu- 

 lent and often glandular; leaves thickish or even fleshy, ovate or ovate- 

 oblong to linear, about 1 in. long; flower-clusters 2 to 5; calyx usually 

 white-villous, its lobes broad and obtuse; corolla whitish, the lower 

 lip tinged with lilac or purple, less declined than in no. 3, the 

 upper iip with few purple lines or dots above, about the length of 

 the curved gibbous throat, with a transverse callous crest or ridge at 

 its origin; lateral lobes of the lower lip often emarginate or obcordate; 

 upper portion of throat of corolla pubescent inside; upper pair of 

 filaments bearded on the upper side to the middle or above; anthers 

 with divergent lobes; gland sessile and elongated; seeds only 2 in 

 each cell. 



Sands near the seashore: Ft. Bragg, ace. to Davy; San Francisco 



