FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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to 1 in. long, petioled, the uppermost (especially those of the prehen- 

 sile branchlets) reduced and 1 line long or less; calyx-segments very 

 unequal, linear, except the large uppermost one; this oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, nearly equaling the tube of the light purple corolla; 

 corolla 5 to <> lines long; li laments dilated at apex; style slender, as 

 long as the capsule; seeds muriculate-roughened. 



Dry open wooded hills or in canons of the Coast Ranges: Mt. 

 Hamilton; Niles; Mt. Diablo; Vaca Mountains; Kenwood, etc. 

 July-Aug. Passes into the 



Var. Breweri (A. Breweri Gray). Slender and less diffuse, with 

 smaller corolla (3 lines long) considerably exceeding the less unequal 

 sepals. — Napa Valley to Clear Lake, and northward. 



Var. Bolanderi Gray. Rather widely spreading, the branches 14 

 to 20 in. long, sparsely hispid with gland-tipped hairs; leaf-blade 1£ 

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

 lower on petioles 8 lines long, the upper on petioles about lj lines 

 long; upper sepal very large, elliptic-oblong, nearly as long or dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the tube of the \ in. long corolla. — Redwood 

 region, Marin Co. Herbage thought to be glaucous. 



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

 annual, 1 to 2 ft. high, often climbing by tortile filiform peduncles; 

 lowest leaves ovate-lanceolate, the upper becoming linear or the floral 

 ones filiform and much shorter than the peduncles; calyx-segments 

 linear-lanceolate, little unequal; corolla violet-purple, o 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 Mountains northward to Arroyo 

 Grande, Monterey Co.). Reported from Mt. Tamalpais bv Greene. 

 Apr. -May. 



3. LIN ARIA 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; 

 flowering stems one or several, erect, 6 to 18 in. high, with linear 

 mostly alternate leaves, those of the procumbent radical snoots broader 

 and oftener opposite or whorled; flowers in a raceme; pedicels erect, 

 not longer than the slender curved spur of the blue corolla. 



Sandy soil, rather uncommon: Alameda; hillside above Mill 

 Valley, H. P. Chandler. 



2. L. vulgaris L. Bl t tti:k-am>-K(;(;s. Perennial, erect, 1 to 2.] 



