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characteristic. Tliis and the preceding species belong to the subgenus 

 Adenostegia proper, characterized by a diphyllous calyx; it is to be 

 noted, however, that the lower sepal in A. Pringlei and A. pilosa is 

 deciduous, and that only the upper sepal persists in extreme age! 

 The next two species are of the section Hemistegia, tlie calyx of which 

 is monophyllous, only the upper sepal being present! 



i. A. maritima (Nutt.) Greene. Corymbosely branched, 5 to 12 in. 

 high; herbage glaucous and more or less hoary-pubescent; leaves 

 linear to oblong, 1 in. long, entire; flowers in short rather thick 

 spikes, about as long as the loosely imbricated bracts; corolla purplish; 

 stamens 4, in very unequal pairs; anthers of the longer pair 2-celled, 

 of the shorter pair with only the lower smaller cell; filaments gla- 

 brous. — (Cordylanthus maritimus Nutt.) 



Salt marshes near the coast from Sim Francisco Bay southward to 

 Southern California. July. 



5. A. mollis (Gray) Greene. Simple or brauchtd, J to 1 ft. high, 

 villous-pubescent, the bracts densely rillous-hirsute; leaves linear or 

 oblong, entire, or the upper saliently few-toothed or pinnatifid; 

 flowers spicate; corolla f in. loiig; stamens 2; anthers 2-celled; fila- 

 ments glabrous. — (Cordylanthus mollis Gray.) 



Interior salt marahes: Vallejo; Snisun Marshes. Aug. 



20. PEDICULARIS L. Lousewort. 

 Perennial herbs with alternate pinnatifid leaves. Flowers in a 

 bracteate spike. Calyx 2 to 5-cleft. Corolla tubular, strongly bilab- 

 iate; upper lip galeate, arched and compressed; lower lip of 3 small 

 rounded lobes or teeth. Stamens 4, under the galea; anthers trans- 

 verse, with equal cells. Capsule flattened, oblique at apex, loculi- 

 cidally 2-valved. (From Latin pediculus, a louse; of uncertain 

 application.) 



1- P. denslflora Benth. Isdiax Wakrior. Stems simple and 

 erect, 9 to 12 in. high, commonly several from the scaly caudex; 

 herbage soft-pubescent or nearly glabrous; leaves pinnately divided ov 

 parted, the segments oblong and doubly serrate-toothed or incised; 

 flowers in a terminal dense (or in age loose) spike; bracts linear, 

 ciliate or serrulate towards the apex, mostlj' shorter than the flowers; 

 calyx 5-angled, the anterior and lateral angles soft-pubescent, equally 

 or unequally 5-toothed, 3 to 4 lines long; corolla crimson, 1 in. long 

 or more; galea large, slightly broader upwards, strongly arched; 

 lower lip small, of -S rounded teeth; anther-cells acute at base; 

 seeds few. 



Wooded hills throughout western California. Feb.-JIar. 



Bellakdia Teixaqo (L.) is an escape near JIartinez, ace. to 

 Greene, Man., 284. It is an annual with crenate-serrate lanceolate 

 leaves, red and white flowers in a dense terminal spike, 4-lobed calyx, 

 and the lip of the corolla equaling or exceeding the galea. 



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