Cordylanthus. SCR0PHULARIACE2E. 303 



flowers in small terminal heads or clusters, or more scattered along the branches ; 

 the bracts and calyx not colored, and corolla seldom much surpassing the calyx. 

 Seeds comparatively few and large, often apiculate or appendiculate at one or 

 both ends. Fl. summer. — Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 597 ; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. viii. 381, & Bot. Calif, i. 580 ; Watson, Bot. King, 450. Adenostegia, 

 Benth. in Lindl. Nat. Syst. ed. 2, 445, & in DC. Prodr. x. 537, but the name 

 abandoned in the same volume for the more appropriate one of Nuttall. 



§ 1. Axisocheila. Calyx diphyllous : corolla cleft to the middle ; the lower 

 lip only half the length of the upper, entire, hardly saccate : stamens 4, with 

 one-celled anthers (and rarely a vestige of the lower cell) : both divisions of the 

 calyx 6-nerved : no gland at tip of leaves : corolla " bright yellow." 



C. laxifloms, Gray. A foot or two high, much branched, very hirsute, above some- 

 what viscid: leaves short, linear, entire, or the uppermost 3-cleft : flowers approximate or 

 scattered on the leafy branchlets (8 lines long), either sessile and ebracteolate or short- 

 peduncled and "1-2-bracteolate : corolla little longer than the calyx : filaments villous 

 below : seeds coarsely favose, not appendaged. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 120, & Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 1. c. 383. — Hills and ravines, Arizona, Thurber, Palmer, Rothrock. The habitat " Salt 

 Lake, Utah, Fremont," needs confirmation. 



§ 2. Adenostegia, Gray, 1. c. Calyx diphyllous : corolla 2-lipped at summit ; 

 lower lip about equalling the upper, 3-crenate : flowers short-peduncled or sub- 

 sessile, 2-4-bracteolate : upper leaves and bracts commonly with a depressed gland 

 or callosity at the truncate or retuse apex : corolla greenish-yellow or purplish. — 

 Adenostegia, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 537. 



* Corolla more exserted and conspicuous, fully inch long : stamens 4 : anthers 2-celled : seeds 

 coarsely favose. 



C. "Wrightii, Gray. A foot or two high, loosely branched, almost glabrous, or above 

 puberulent-scabrous : leaves setaceous-filiform, 3-5-parted ; floral similar, the tips not 

 dilated : flowers several in the mostly dense terminal heads : corolla purplish, with rather 

 long lips : anthers villous. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 120, & Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. — S. W. borders 

 of Texas to N. Arizona, Wriyht, Rothrock. 



# # Corolla almost included, half to three-fourths inch long. (Natives of California and adjacent 

 districts.) 



+— Stamens 4: anthers 2-celled: filaments villous: both divisions of calyx 5-6-nerved; the pos- 

 terior entire or emarginate. 



++ Seeds rather numerous, about 20, delicately favose. 

 C. ramosus, Nutt. 1. c. A span or two high, diffusely much branched, cinereous-puber- 

 ulent : leaves filiform, all but the lower usually 3-7-parted ; no distinct apical gland or 

 dilatation: flowers few in the small terminal heads or upper axils: corolla dull yellow, 

 barely half inch long. — Watson, 1. c. ; Gray, 1. c. — Dry interior region of Oregon and W. 

 Nevada, to Wyoming. 



■H- ++ Seeds fewer and larger, mostly apiculate or appendiculate at one end; the coat close, 



minutely and closely lineolate with sinuous lines or reticulations, or at maturity smooth and even 



through their obliteration : callous gland generally apparent at the tip of some of the upper leaves 



or bracts. 



C. filifolius, Nutt. Tall, 1 to 3 feet high, loosely branched above, roughish-puberulent 



and somewhat viscid or nearly glabrous below, commonly more or less hispid above, 



especially the margins of the floral leaves : leaves 3-5-parted or some of the lower entire ; 



the divisions from filiform to linear ; those of the upper and the more dilated bracts usually 



broadening upward and with retuse tip : heads rather many-flowered, often proliferous : 



corolla purplish, over half inch long. — Benth- 1- u. Adenostegia rirjida, Benth. in Lindl. 



Nat. Syst. & DC. 1. c. 537. (Name replaced in the same volume by the then unpublished 



one of Nuttall.) — Dry and moist banks, throughout all but perhaps the northern part of 



California. Varies greatly in foliage, pubescence, &c, but generally well marked by the 



hispid- or setose-ciliate bracts and floral leaves. 



