542 . OROBANCHACE,E thalesia 



BOSCHNIAKIA 



T. ii ii i flora. Britton Mem. Torr. Club v, 298. Aphyllon uniflora Gray. 

 Stem usually less than an inch long, nearly subterranean, bearing several 

 ovate-oblong scales and 1-4 slender erect scape-like glandular-puberulent 

 naked 1-flowered peduncles 3-8 inches high : calyx campanulate. pubescent 

 and glandular. 4-5 lines high, its lanceolate-acuminate lobes as long as the 

 tube or longer: corolla violet or white, puberulent outside, 8-12 lines long, 

 the curved tube about 3 times as long as the limb, the short lobes oval or 

 obovate, obtuse: capsule ovoid; longer than the calyx. In woods and 

 thickets, California to Brit. Columbia and across the Continent. 



T. purpurea Heller Bull. Torr. Bot. Club xxiv, 313. Rootstock 

 stout, fascicled or sparingly branched, 2-3 inches long mostly subterranean, 

 bearing a few broad acute prominently veined glabrous scales, and few to 

 several stout glandular-pubescent channeled scape -like peduncles 4-6 inch- 

 es high: calyx glandular-pubescent, equally 5-lobed, the lobes prominently 

 3-nerved, the lateral nerves close to the margin, twice the length of the 

 tube, long-acuminate from a triangular base : corolla deep violet-purple, 

 16-18 lines long, glandular-pubescent ; lobes broadly oblong or obovate, 

 usually notched or sometimes merely rounded, fringed with short glandu- 

 lar hairs, marked with 3 yellowish veins: stamens smooth; the anthers 

 obovate, short-acuminate at base : ovary glabrous. Mouth of the Potlatch 

 Idaho. 



T. fasciculate Britton 1. c. Glandular- pubescent throughout: stems 

 erect, 2-4 inches high, bearing several oblong to lanceolate scales and 3-20 

 naked 1-flowered peduncles 1-4 inches long : calyx broadly campanulate, 

 3-5 lines high; its lobes triangular-lanceolate or triangular-ovate, acute, 

 equalling or shorter than the tube : corolla nearly an inch long, yellowish, 

 often tinged with purple, the curved tube 3 times as long as the limb, the 

 lobes oblong, obtuse: capsule ovoid to globose. On sandy banks, Brit. 

 Columbia to California and Indiana. 



3 BOSCHNIAKIA. C. A. Meyer Bong. Veg. Sitcha. 159. 



Erect simple brown or reddish densely scaly glabrous herbs, 

 parasitic on Ericaceous shrubs or trees, with numerous flowers in 

 a simple dense scaly-bracted cone-like spike. Flowers all alike 

 and fertile, sessile, or short-pedicelled. Calyx short, cupuliform, 

 posteriorly truncate or obliquely shorter, and with 3 distant teeth 

 in front. Corolla ventricose: upper lip erect or fornicate, entire ; 

 lower 3-parted. Stamens slightly exserted : anther-cells closely 

 parallel and muticose at base. Stigma dilated and bilamellar or 

 4-lobed. Seeds with a thin reticulated or favose coat. 



B. strobilacea Gray Pacif. R. Rep. iv, 118. Stems clustered, 4-12 

 inches high stout and thick, brownish-red : scales ovate or the upper ones 

 more or less cuneate below, much imbricated : flowering from near the 

 ground : pedicels stout, a line or two long : calyx with a pair of setaceous 

 bractlets at base, irregularly 2-5-toothed, the teeth subulate from a broad 

 base, 3-4 lines long, about as long as the tube: corolla bilabiate, 8-10 lines 

 long, upper lip entire, its margins involute, lower lip 2-lobed, naked: sta- 

 mens densely woolly at base, shorter than the upper lip, anthers woolly: 

 style a little longer than the stamens; stigma irregularly 3-5-lobed : capsule 

 globose, 4-valved, 1-celled: seeds globose, a line long, light-colored, with a 

 spongy coat. In open woods, southern Oregon to California. 



B. Hookeri Walp. Rep. iii, 479. ? Stem comparatively slender, 3-6 

 inches high: scales oblong to broadly ovate, lax or densely imbricated: 

 flowers sessile: calyx ebracteolate, 4-toothed, the triangular acute teeth 

 a line or two long, about as long as the tube: corolla 6-8 lines long, upper 



