532 SCROPHULARtACE^ CASfrLLtiiA 



C. lutescens Rydb. C. pallida var. lutescens Greenman Bot. Gaz. 

 XXV, ^65. Sterna several from a somewhat woody persistent base, 12-20 

 inches high, more or less pubescent, usually branched above : lower leaves 

 linear to oblong-lanceolate, entire, upper ones somewhat broader, 2-5- 

 lobed, all somewhat scabrous, espeoially on the upper surface : brapts ob- 

 long, about an inch long, laciniately cut into 3-5 lobes, the lateral ones 

 linear to subulate, the middle one broad and rounded at the summit, green 

 or yellowish with whitish tips : spikes dense and many-flowered : calyx 

 8-10 lines long, pubescent, its oblong lobes deeply 2-toothed: corolla but 

 little longer than the calyx, the galea about J^ as long as the tube, 3-4 

 times as long as the lower lip. On prairies, eastern Washington. 



C. rampornm. C. pallida var. camporum Greenman I. e. Stems 

 usually several, rising from a perennial base; 6-12 inches high, more or less 

 covered with a spreading pilose pubescence : leaves narrowly oblong-lance- 

 olate, the lower mostly entire, tlie upper irregularly laciniately 3-7-lobed 

 with narrow ascending lobes, pubescent both sides : inflorescence greenish- 

 yellow or tinged with red, at length becoming much elongated : calyx 6-15 

 lines long, the lobes again shortly 2-lobed and obtuse or even rounded at 

 the summit : lower lip }4~/'3 as long as the galea. On prairies eastern 

 Washington. 



C. pallescens Greenman 1. c. Orthocarpus pallescens Gray. Cinere- 

 ons-puberulent : stems 6-12 inched high, usually several from a woody 

 perennial base, simple or spariiigly branched above: leaves 3-parted into 

 linear lobes, or the lower entire : bracts similar to the leaves, with dilated 

 base or the upper with shorter obscurely whitish or yellowish lobes : calyx 

 deeply 2-cleft, its broad lobes merely 2-cleft at the summit : corolla over 6 

 lines long, galea broadish, obtuse, the lower lip nearly half as long as the 

 galea, obscurely saccate. Eastern Oregon and Washington to the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



C. pilosa Rydb. Orthocarpus pilosun, Watson. From soft villous to 

 hirsute-pubescent : stems tufted at the crown of a somewhat woody root- 

 stock, 2-10 inches high: leaves 2-3 inches long, lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 divaricately 3-lobed, the middle lobe broadest, dilated and rounded at the 

 apex, the lateral ones linear: bracts shorter and broader than the leaves, 

 usually 5-lobed, the lateral lobes linear, the middle one bro&d, rounded at 

 the summit, all tipped with pale yellow: calyx about an inch long, the ob- 

 long lobes about as long as the tube, emarginate to deeply 24obed, the lobes 

 rounded: corolla barely surpassing the calyx, the straight and broad galea 

 about half as long as the tube; the lower lip 3-lobed, obscurely saccate, 

 more than half as long as the galea. On high dry plains, eastern Oregon 

 to Nevada and Brit. Columbia. 



C. Cnsickii Greenman 1. c. 267. Stems several from a procumbent 

 base, 16-18 inches high, simple, or branched a,bove, covered with a short 

 spreading cinereous pubescence : lower leaves linear to linear lanceolate, 

 acute, 1-2 inches lonsc, upper ones somewhat larger, usually laciniately 

 lobed with 1 or 2 pairs of slender spreading lobes : bracts oblong, obtuse or 

 rounded at the summit, usually ejitire strongly ciliate toward the base, 

 distinctly 3-nerved and rather strongly reticulate-veined, 10-14 lines long: 

 racemes rather dense, 2-5 inches long : calvx 10-12 lines long, pubescent 

 outside equally cleft before and behind, its lobes linear-oblong, bidentate 

 or shallowly 2-lobed at the apex : corolla 12-16 lines long, the galea scarcely 

 twice as long as the 3-lobed lower lip: capsule oblong, about 6 lines long, 

 glabrous." In Sumpter valley, eastern Oregon. ■■ 



C. levisecta (-jreenman 1. c. Stems many from a perennial base, 6-12 

 inches high, usually simple, covered with a more or less spreading unequal 

 pilose pubescence : leaves oblong-lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, 3-^-nerved, 

 pubescent both sides, often bearing long pilose hairs on the veins beneath, 



