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or knee; capsule dehiscing by pores at the base of the style; seeds with the 

 longitudinal wing-like ridges fimbrillate. 



High remote ridges of the Coast Ranges: Santa Lucia Mts., Jepson; Caz- 

 adero, Carruth; Howell Mt. ; Mt. St. Helena; Lake and Mendocino cos. In- 

 dividuals rare, growing in chaparral or chamise; the known stations few. 

 June. 



2. A. glandulosum Lindl. Stem stout, branching, 3 to 5 ft. high, very 

 leafy; herbage glandular-pubescent; leaves lanceolate, sessile, gradually di- 

 minishing into the bracts of the inflorescence; bracts equaling or shorter than 

 the oblong tube of the corolla; sepals oblong-lanceolate, unequal; "filaments 

 all moderately dilated upwards." 



Mt. Hamilton (ace. to Greene) ; Santa Cruz, and southward. 



3. A. vagans Gray. At first simple and erect, at length branching and 

 very diffuse, the branches */> to 1% ft. long; branchlets slender or filiform, 

 more or less twisting and disposed to be prehensile ; leaves ovate, mostly 3 to 

 5 lines long, or oblong to lanceolate and mostly y± to 1 in. long, petioled, 

 the uppermost (especially those of the prehensile branchlets) reduced and 1 

 line long or less ; calyx-segments very unequal, linear, except the large upper- 

 most one ; this oblong or elliptic-oblong, nearly equaling the tube of the light 

 purple corolla; corolla 5 to 6 lines long; filaments dilated at apex; style 

 slender, as long as the capsule; seeds muriculate-roughened. 



Dry open wooded hills or in canons of the Coast Eanges from Mt. Hamil- 

 ton northward to the Oakland Hills, Sonoma Co. and Vaca Mts. Common 

 on the higher hills and often abundant. July-Sept. Var. breweri Jepson. 

 Slender and less diffuse, with smaller corolla (3 lines long) considerably 

 exceeding the less unequal sepals. — Napa Valley to Clear Lake and northward 

 (A. breweri Gray). Var. bolaxderi Gray. Rather widely spreading, the 

 branches 14 to 20 in. long, sparsely hispid with gland-tipped hairs; leaf -blade 

 iy 2 in. long or less, ovate (those of the filiform branchlets orbicular), the 

 lower on petioles 8 lines long, the upper on petioles about 1% lines long; 

 upper sepal very large, elliptic-oblong, nearly as long or distinctly shorter 

 than the tube of the y 2 in. long corolla. — Redwood region, Marin Co. 



4. A. strictum (H. & A.) Gray. Erect nearly simple glabrous annual, 

 1 to 2 ft. high, often climbing by tortile filiform peduncles; low T est leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, the upper becoming linear or the floral ones filiform and 

 much shorter than the peduncles ; calyx-segments linear-lanceolate, little un- 

 equal; corolla violet-purple, 5 lines long, the hairy prominent palate nearly 

 closing the throat ; fruiting calyx about equaling the crustaceous capsule, this 

 tipped with a straight (not deflexed) style of equal length. 



South Coast Ranges: Santa Inez Mts. northward to Arroyo Grande, Los 

 Gatos (Muhl., iii, 118), and Mt. Tamalpais. Rare in our region. Apr.-May. 



3. LINARIA Juss. 

 Annual or perennial herbs. Lower leaves opposite and the upper alternate, 

 entire in ours. Flowers in bracteate racemes, or solitary and axillary. Calyx 

 5-parted. Corolla bilabiate, more or less tubular, personate and with a spur 

 at base on the lower side; upper lip erect, middle lobe of lower smallest. 

 Stamens 4. Capsule dehiscing below the summit by 1 or 2 simple or lacerate 

 perforations or chinks, many-seeded. (Name derived from Linum, Flax.) 



Annual or biennial; flowers blue 1. L. canadensis. 



Perennial; flowers yellow 2. L. vulgaris. 



1. L. canadensis Dum. Toad FLAX. Annual or biennial; (lowering stems 



