SCR0PHULARIACEJ3. (FIG WORT FAMILY.) 279 



flowers large. — Bot. Calif, ii. 567. From the Wahsatch Mountains westward 

 to California. 



Var. ambigUUS, Gray. A rather tall form, paniculately branched- and 

 slender, with lanceolate and linear leaves all narrowed at base, pale and glau- 

 cescent, and the corolla violet-blue, an inch or less long : sepals remarkably 

 small. — Synopt. Fl. ii. 272. P. heterophyllus, Watson. Canons of the Wa- 

 satch Mountains and westward. 



* * Corolla scarlet-red, tubular-funnelform, conspicuously bilabiate, an inch long. 

 27. P. Bridgesii, Gray. A foot or two high from a woody base, gla- 

 brous up to the virgate secund thyrsus, or puberulent : leaves from spatulate- 

 lanceolate to linear ; the floral reduced to small subulate bracts : peduncles, 

 pedicels, and sepals glandular-viscid : lips of the narrow corolla fully a third 

 the length of the tube ; the upper erect and 2-lobed ; the lower 3-parted and 

 its lobes recurved. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 379. S. W. Colorado, Brandegee, 

 and westward into S. California. 



5. CHIONOPHILA, Benth. 



A high alpine dwarf perennial, with entire leaves mostly in a radical tuft 

 and a dense spike of cream-colored flowers. 



1. C. Jamesii, Benth. Glabrous or nearly so : leaves thickish, spatulate 

 or lanceolate, tapering into a scarious sheathing base ; those on the scape-like 

 flowering stems one or two pairs, or occasionally alternate, linear : spike few 

 to many-flowered, mostly secund, bracteate : corolla over a half-inch long, dull 

 cream-color. — Gray in Am. Jour. Sci. n. xxxiii. 254. - Alpine regions of the 

 Colorado mountains. 



6. MIMULITS, Ii. Monkey-flower. 



Flowers usually showy and axillary, or becoming racemose by the reduction 

 of the upper leaves to bracts. 



* Viscid or glandular-pubescent. 

 *- Leaves sessile or nearly so, entire or few-toothed : corolla rose-purple or yellaiv. 



1. M. nanus, Hook. & Am. From an inch to a span or more high : leaves 

 from obovate or oblong to lanceolate : calyx-teeth broadly lanceolate or triangular, a 

 quarter of the length of the tube : corolla $ to i inch long, funnelform, with 

 widely spreading limb and throat gradually narrowed downward into the in- 

 cluded or partly exserted tube : stigma peltate-funnetform : capsules with taper- 

 ing apex rather exceeding the calyx. — Ranging chiefly west of our limit, but 

 extending eastward into Wyoming. 



2. M. rubellus, Gray. From 2 to 10 inches high, branched from the 

 base : leaves from spatulate-oblong to linear, \ to f inch long, commonly equalling 

 the pedicels ; the lower sometimes obovate or ovate : calyx-teeth short and ob- 

 tuse: corolla 3 or 4 lines long, from a third to twice the length of the calyx, 

 yellow or rose-color, sometimes yellow varying or changing to crimson-purple ; 

 the throat broad and open: stigma bilamellar.-^om New Mexico and Ari- 

 zona to Colorado and Washington. 



