296 SCROPHULARIACE^i. Castilleia. 



Moist grounds, California from Monterey to San Diego, and through the southern part 

 of the Sierra Nevada. 



# # Perennials. 



+- Calyx deeper cleft before than behind, tubular-cylindraceous, mostly colored red, as are a part 

 of the bracts : corolla large, an inch or two long, well exserted from the lower side of the spatha- 

 ceous calyx and at length somewhat arcuate or falcate, exposing the protuberant and very short 

 callous lip; its galea about equalling the tube : lower flowers commonly pedicellate. 



C. affinis, Hook. & Am. A foot or two high, mostly strict, villous-pubescent or gla- 

 brate : leaves narrowly lanceolate, entire, or some of the upper laciniate-toothed at apex ; 

 lower floral or bracts similar ; upper shorter and broader, red : spike or raceme lax below : 

 calyx narrowly cylindrical, red, an inch long, its anterior fissure hardly twice the depth of 

 the posterior ; narrowly oblong lobes acutely 2-clef t at apex : corolla 1J to 1£ inches long. 

 — Bot. Beech. 154, 380; Benth. in DC. 1. c, & PI. Hartw. no. 1896 ; Meyer, Sert. Petrop. 

 ii. t. 15 f — California, in moist grounds about San Francisco Bay, on the Sacramento, 

 and south to Tejon, &c. 



C. laxa, Gray. A foot high, weak and slender, short-pubescent : leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 entire, barely 2 inches long, 3-nerved, spreading : bracts similar or broader, the upper red- 

 dish : flowers few and crowded : calyx broadly cylindraceous, inch long, its anterior fissure 

 not twice the depth of the posterior, both short ; the lobes broad and broadly 2-toothed : 

 corolla inch and a half long, nearly straight; its galea shorter than the tube. — Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. 119 & Am. Jour. Sci. 1. c. — Mountain side, southern border of Arizona 

 near Santa Cruz, Wright. 



C. oblongifolia. Two feet or more high, very leafy, densely villous or pubescent : 

 leaves widely spreading, 5-nerved, 1 or 2 inches long, narrowly elliptical and very obtuse, 

 or the uppermost oblong-ovate and acute : bracts similar, the upper reddish : spike many- 

 flowered : calyx-lobes narrowly lanceolate or linear : corolla 2 inches long ; somewhat 

 falcate narrow galea as long as the tube ; lip very protuberant and fleshy globular-saccate, 

 its minute lobes subulate. — Southern borders of San Diego Co., California, Palmer. Col- 

 lected along with C. miniata. 



C. linariaef olia, Benth. Mostly tall and strict, 2 to 5 feet high, glabrous below, the sev- 

 eral-many-flowered spike somewhat pubescent or villous : leaves linear, entire, or some of 

 the upper sparingly laciniate, and the uppermost and bracts 3-parted, 1-3-nerved ; divisions 

 not dilated : calyx narrowly cylindrical, over an inch long, mostly red or crimson, some- 

 times pale ; the anterior fissure very much deeper than the posterior ; the long upper lip 

 acutely 4-toothed or 2-clef t and the lobes 2-toothed : corolla 1 J or 2 inches long ; its nar- 

 row falcate and much exserted galea as long as the tube. — DC. 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c, & Bot. 

 Calif, i. 573. C. candens, Durand in Pacif. R. Rep. v. 12, a. pubescent form. — Through 

 the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming to New Mexico, Arizona, and Sierra Nevada 

 of California. 



-K- -t— Calyx about equally cleft before and behind : floral leaves or bracts more or less dilated and 

 petaloid-colored (red or crimson, varying to yellowish or whitish). 



++ Pubescence never tomentose nor cinereous-tomentulose. 

 = Galea equalling or longer than the tube of the corolla ; the lip very short. 



C. latifolia, Hook. & Arn. A foot or two high, diffusely branched from the base, 

 villous-hirsute and viscid: leaves short (half inch or more), dilated-obovate or oval, very 

 obtuse, some 3-5-lobed : spike leafy : calyx 2-clef t to the middle ; the oblong-obovate lobes 

 entire or emarginate, almost equalling the small (8 lines long) corolla. — Bot. Beech. 154. — 

 Coast of California. • 



C. parviflora, Bong.' A span to 2 -feet high, villous-hirsute, at least above: leaves 

 variously laciniately cleft into linear or lanceolate lobes, or sometimes the cauline mainly 

 entire and narrow (rarely oblong) : calyx-lobes oblong arid 2-cleft at apex or to below the 

 middle : corolla an inch or less long ; only the upper part of the narrow galea exserted ; the 

 small lip not protuberant. — Veg. Sitk. 157 ; Gray, 1. c. C. Toluccensis, Cham. & Schlecht. 

 in Linn. ii. 579? . C. coccinea, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t, 1136. C. hispida, Benth. in Hook. Fl. ii. 

 105, & DC. 1. c. 532. C. Douglasii, Benth. in DC. 1. c. 530 ; narrow-leaved and large-flow- 

 ered form of coast of California. Euchroma Bradburii, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 47. 

 E. angustifolia, Nutt. 1. c, a low and small-flowered subalpine form : same as C. desertorum, 

 Geyer, in Hook. Kew Jour. v. 258. — Dry or moist ground, Sitka to S. California and 



