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slender falcate upper lip dark purple: tube very slender, but sacs large 

 and deep, their folds villous within. — Very common, and on higher 

 ground than the last. 



9. 0. versicolor (F. & M.). Slender as the last, and the herbage 

 slightly reddish, seldom branching, or more than 6 in. high: leaves at 

 apex filiform-cleft (as in all the group): corollas with shorter tube, and 

 the broadly obovate sacs almost twice as large as in the last; color of the 

 fl. pure white, fading pinkish; folds of the throat densely bearded. Var. 

 roseus (Gray). Corolla deep rose-color from the first (not white, then 

 changing, as has been assumed). — Dry sandy hills, about San Francisco, 

 and in Marin Co.; the flowers fragrant, as in no other species. 



10. 0. lithospermoides, Benth. Stout, commonly simple, or with 2 or 

 3 branches, 1 — 1% ft. high, pubescent, very leafy: lower leaves lanceo- 

 late, entire; upper with a few slender lobes; floral with dilated base, 

 and palm atifid tips nearly equalling the densely spicate flowers: calyx- 

 lobes linear: corolla 1 in. long or more, strongly 3-saccate, the sacs J^ 

 in. wide, the whole of a deeper than sulphur yellow, fading whitish. — 

 Moist plains and hillsides; later in flowering than the other species. 

 May, June. 



19. ADENOSTEGIA, Benth. iEstival and autumnal branching annuals, 

 with alternate narrow leaves either entire or 3— 5-parted. Flowers 

 bracted, scattered, or spicate-crowded. Calyx spathaceous, of an anterior 

 and a posterior leaf-like division, or the anterior one wanting. Corolla 

 tubular, bilabiate; lips short and nearly equal; lower obtusely 3-toothed; 

 upper compressed, its apex more or less uncinate-incurved. Stamens 

 with ciliate or bearded anther-cells. Capsule compressed. Seeds with 

 a loose testa, pointed at one end. 



* Calyx 2-leaved; bracts and foliage gland-tipped. 



1. A. rigida, Benth. Puberulent and somewhat hispid, 1 — 2 ft. high, 

 paniculately branched: leaves linear-filiform; lower entire; upper 3 — 5- 

 parted, the floral with cuneate base and bristly-ciliate margins; divisions 

 with dilated and retuse or notched gland-bearing tip: fl. crowded in 

 terminal lieads: corolla yellowish and purplish, %—% in. long.— Mt. 

 Hamilton, and perhaps San Mateo Co. and southward. July— Sept. 



2. A. pilosa (Gray), Greene. Soft-villous and somewhat hoary, 2 — 4 

 ft. high and loosely paniculate: leaves narrowly linear, entire; upper 

 and floral often broader and 3-toothed: fl. only 2 or S together at the ends 

 of the branchlels: corolla less than 1 in. long, white and purplish.— In 

 the mountain districts generally. Aug.— Oct. 



*'* Calyx 1-leaved; leaves and bracts not callous-tipped. 



3. A. maritima (Nutt), Greene. Pale, glaucous and hoary-pubes- 

 cent, corymbosely branched from the base, 1 ft. high or less: leaves and 



