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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



1410. 

 1411. 



Collinsia grandiflora 

 Tonella tenella 



Mendocino county. 



Slender and small, flowers 

 minute. Coast Ranges. 



1412. Beard Tongue Pentstemon 



A large genus of about thirty species distributed from the Coast Range hills 

 to the high Sierras, with a few semi-shrubby ones in the desert regions. The 

 flowers are showy and easily recognized and may be red, blue, purple, white, or 

 yellow in many different shades. 



1413. Monkey-Flower Mimulus 



A large genus of about thirty species in the State, with yellow, pink or red 

 flowers. The masses of yellow so abundant by cold springs or streams in the Si- 

 erras are frequently produced by some one or other of the species of Mimulus. 

 Jepson describes ten species with red, crimson, or scarlet flowers and five species 

 with yellow flowers in his Flora of Western Middle California.^ Hall mentions 

 eleven in his Botany of the San Jacinto Mountain. The Botany of the Death Val- 

 ley expedition lists fourteen species. They are difficult of determination and good 

 specimens both in flower and fruit should be collected. 



1414. Bush Monkey- 

 Flower 



1415. 



1416. 



1417. Hedge-Hyssop 

 1418. 



1419. 



1420. 



1421. 

 1422. 

 1423. Speedwell 



1424. 



1425. 



1426. Xeckweed 



1427. Brooklime 



Diplacus glutinasus and 

 vars. 



Diplacus longiflorus 



Stemodia durantifolia 



Gratiola Virginiana 

 Gratiola ebracteata 



Ilysanthes gratioloides 



Limosella aquatica 



Synthyris rotundifolia 

 Synthyris reniformis 

 Veronica Bnxbanmii 



Veronica scutellata 



Veronica serphyllifolia 

 Veronica peregrina 



Veronica Americana 



1428. 



1429. Painted Cup 



Sticky shrub with buff or 

 salmon-colored flowers. 

 Common, canyons in 

 Coast region. 



FAge of chaparral belt, 

 southern California. 



Sticky, hairy plant 6 inches 

 to a foot high. Sessile, 

 purple flowers, quarter of 

 an inch long. Southern 

 borders. 



Sierras. 



Wet valleys of north Coast 

 Ranges. 



Muddy shores. Interior val- 

 ley and Sierras. 



1 to 2 inches tall. Muddy 

 shores of ponds and lakes. 

 Coast and Sierras. 



Northern Coast Ranges. 



Modoc county. 



Introduced. Lawns and 

 gardens. 



Plumas county, Yosemite 

 valley and elsewhere. 



Plumas county. 



Common in low places 

 throughout the State. 

 Weedy tendencies. 



By springs and streams in 

 mountains, Coast and Si- 

 erras. 



High Sierras. 



Veronica alpina 



Castilleia 



A conspicuous group of plants with showy bracts surrounding the flowers. 

 The species are extremely variable as to size, width of leaves and color of flowers. 

 The same species may have yellow, crimson, scarlet or white flowers. 



They may be found from the coast to the highest mountains. It is difficult to 

 estimate the number of the species in the State as many names have been given to 

 forms sometimes placed in the genus Orthocarpus. There arc at least a dozen 

 species. 



