400 



S4 K« ►PHULAKIACELE. 



and southward to Southern California. Also on the Antioch sand- 

 hills. Apr. -June. . 



o. C. Greenei Gray. Slender, diffusely branched, 6 to 8 in. nigh, 

 glandu'lar-puberulent: leaves linear, or tapering to apex, entire or 

 obscurely dentate: pedicels sometimes as long as the calyx; corolla 

 deep azure-blue: upper lip much shorter than the oblong throat, 

 about half the length of the lower, and very prominently wing- 

 crested or toothed at its origin: lateral lobes of lower lip small; gland 

 small. 



Crevices of high rocks near the Geysers. Sonoma Co, Greene, June 

 19, 1874: Biackf Butte. Mendocino Co.. 1884. Ration; stony bed of 

 winter rivulet. Blue Lakes grade from Ukiah, Davy, May 30. 1900. 



5. TON EL LA Nutt. 



Slender branching annuals. Leaves opposite, entire, dentate or 

 ternatelv divided. "Flowers small, almost like those of Collinsia. 

 Corolla scarcely declined, onlv slightly bilabiate, the lobes subrotately 

 spreading and "not obviously dissimilar. Fifth stamen represented by 

 a small gland. Seeds 1 to 4 in each cell. (Origin of name unknown.) 



1. T. tenella (Benth.). Very slender (with almost filiform 

 branches), 6 in. high: leaves heteromorphic. the lowest rotund to 

 ovate, entire or with deep notch on each side near the apex. 2 to 4 

 lines long, on petioles longer than the blade: the upper palmately 

 3-parted or -divided into obfong segments, the middle segment longest; 

 bracts entire, shorter than the pedicels: pedicels in 2's or 3 ! s. as much 

 as 1 in. Ions: corolla minute, little exceeding the calyx, white or very 

 Dale blue. The lobes or some of them purple-dotted; capsule exceeding 

 the calvx; seeds 1 to each cell.— (T. collinsioides Nutt) 



Seeniinglv uncommon within our limits, but easily overlooked: 

 Los Gatos." Bioletti; Sonoma: Humboldt Co. and northward to 

 Oregon. 



6. SCROPHULARIA L. Pigwort. 



Fvank perennial herbs with opposite leaves. Flowers small, dull 

 reddish, cvmose. the cymes disposed in a narrow terminal panicle. 

 Calvx 5-parted into broad rounded lobes. Corolla with a somewhat 

 -lobular tube, the two upper lobes longer than the two lateral, all 

 erect except the short defiexed lower one. Stamens with anthers 4. 

 the fifth sterile and adnate to the tube of the corolla, appearing like a 

 scale under the upper lip. Capsule septicidal. many-seeded. (From 

 the Latin scrofula?, the plant a one-time remedy tor scrofula.) 



1. S. Californica Cham. Three to 6 ft. high, glabrous except the 

 finely glandular-pubescent inflorescence: leaves ovate, cordate at base, 

 -errate^or incised-serrate; flowers about 4 lines long. 



Common in moist place.-, mostly along gulches in the hills: Coast 

 Ranges; Sierra Nevada; Southern California. May -June. The yar. 

 fioribunda Greene has the panicle with very flexuous branches 

 and grows along rock outcroppings: Pellejo Hills (Solano Co.) and 

 elsewhere. 



