FIGWOBT FAMILY. .'577 



Corolla large, golden yellow, purple-dotted or splotched, strongly bilabiate; annual or 

 perennial : vars. of 13. M . langsdorffii. 



Slimy viscid-pubescent herbs, with mostly weak and decumbent stems and light yellow 

 subregular corollas. 

 Corolla Yi in. or less long; calyx-teeth short, Y* line long; leaves petioled; annual.... 



14. M. floribundus. 

 Corolla about 1 in. long; calyx-teeth Y2 length of the tube; leaves mostly senile; per- 

 ennial 15. M. moschatus. 



1. M. angustatus Gray. Acaulescent, glabrous; leaves linear, % to 1 

 in. long; calyx 2 to 3 lines long, the teeth very little unequal • corolla crim- 

 son, purple- and yellow-dotted, with filiform tube 1 to 1U in. long, 4 to (! 

 times the length of the short funnelfonn throat; limb broad, upper lip 

 exceeding the lower; capsule short-ovate, not flattened, almost as long as 

 thick; seeds favose-pitted. 



Borders of surface streams in the mountains north of San Francisco Bay 

 (Mt. George, Howell Mt.) ; also in the Sierra Nevada. Apr. -May 15. 



2. M. subuniflorus Greene. Acaulescent or nearly so, about iy 2 i n - high; 

 leaves rhombic-ovate to oblong, 2 to 4 lines long, entire or crenate-toothed ; 

 corolla crimson or red-purple, \y> in. long, the slender tube twice or thrice 

 the length of the calyx; the throat oblong-urn-shaped or campanulate; upper 

 lip conspicuous, erect; lower lip reduced to a narrow 2 or 3-crenate border or 

 consisting of a more prominent tooth-like middle lobe and the lateral lobes 

 obsolete; capsule % in. long, very gibbous. — (M. douglasii Gray.) 



Wet hillsides: Coast Eanges and Sierra Nevada. 



3. M. tricolor Hartw. Short-caulescent and erect or the branches 3 to 

 4 in. long and decumbent; leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong, % to 1 in. 

 long, entire or remotely toothed; corolla rose-purple, 1% to 2 in. long, with 

 little unequal lips and broadly funnelfonn throat bearing markings of crim- 

 son and yellow; capsule slightly gibbous, compressed. 



Edges of vernal pools, plains of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. 

 Apr. 15-May. 



4. M. kelloggii Curran. Erect, simple, 2 to 5 in. high, or occasionally 

 7 or 8 in. with several branches from the base, viscid-pubescent; leaves broadly 

 ovate to oblong (the lowest elliptic-ovate), mostly attenuate at base to a 

 petiole, Vl> to 1 in. long, generally dull purple beneath; calyx narrowly cyl- 

 indrical (6 lines long and 1 line broad), very oblique, the teeth very short 

 and obtuse; corolla-tube very long and slender, twice as long as the calyx, 

 expanding into the short funnelform throat and broad limb, the lower lip 

 only V2 as long as the upper and more spreading; capsule 4 to 5 lines long, 

 slender, bisulcate, slightly curved outwardly (with the calyx), or sometimes 

 contorted, simulating that of Oenothera micrantha. 



Mountain slopes: North Coast Eanges; Sierra Nevada (El Dorado Co.). 

 Apr. 



5. M. congdonii Robinson. Very similar to the preceding, but usually 

 smaller; corolla rose-purple, about 8 lines long, throat narrow, limb only 1 j •_> 

 to 2 lines in diameter; capsule 2 to 3 lines long, acute, compressed. 



Sierra Nevada; Mt. Tamalpais; rare in our limits. 



6. M. bolanderi Cray. Tobacco MiMi'i.rs. Simple or much branched 

 with erect branches, 5 to 16 in. high, glandular-pubescent and very viscid; 



- lanceolate or oblong, sometimes obovate, sometimes sparingly dentic- 

 ulate at apex, 1 to 1% in. long, sessile; calyx 2 to 3 lines broad, 5 to b' lines 

 long, strongly plicate-angled, somewhat contracted at the very oblique orifice, 

 its teeth acute, the upper much the longest; corolla dark red, b' to 9 lines 



