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SCROPHULARIACE.E. 



Calyx-lobes mostly 2-cleft to middle; herbage villous-hirsute; leaves 



linear 3. C. parviflora. 



Calyx-lobes entire or with slightly 2-lobed summit. 



Herbage viscid-pubescent; leaves oval or obovate. ... 4. C. latifolia. 



Herbage white-woolly throughout; leaves linear. . . . 5. C.foliolosa. 



1. C. spiralis. Annual, erect, virgate, \\ to 2£ ft. high, the whole 

 plant glandular-pubescent and wet as if with dew; leaves ascending, 

 linear-lanceolate, \\ to 3 in. long, all entire; lower leaves with long 

 linear tips, these coiling spirally when wilting; bracts entire, the 

 uppermost with scarlet tips; lower flowers pedicellate; calyx equally 

 cleft or cleft slightly deeper behind; calyx-lobes incisely 2-cleft at 

 apex; corolla wholly green (except the lower lip) or sometimes 

 slightly yellowish, straight, well-exserted from calyx-tube, exposing 

 the bright scarlet teeth of the lower lip; corolla-tube longer than 

 galea. 



Moist rivulets, Butt's Canon, northern Napa Co., July 13, 1897. 

 C. stenantha Gray, to which this is closely allied, occurs from Mon- 

 terey to San Diego and in the southern Sierra Nevada, and is the only 

 other annual species in the state; it was first collected by Hartweg on 

 the Carmel River. 



2. C. affinis H. & A. Scarlet Cup. One to 2 ft. high, with few 

 virgate branches from the base, rather leafy below; herbage nearly 

 glabrous, somewhat villous, or slightly scabrous-puberulent; leaves 

 linear, entire, 4 in. long or less; raceme loose below; bracts scarlet, 

 3-parted, the middle lobe largest and 3-cleft at apex; flowers pedi- 

 celed, 1^ in. long; calyx-lobes notched or 2-cleft at apex, the teeth 

 acute; corolla yellowish, falcate, much exserted from the anterior 

 cleft of the scarlet or scarlet-tipped calyx, and exposing the lower 

 lip; galea about as long as tube, villous, bearded towards apex on the 

 back. 



Borders of woods in the Coast Ranges about San Francisco Bay: 

 Oakland Hills; San Francisco; etc. Mar.-May. The large lower 

 leaves have three strong callous nerves. Bracts very lcng, the lobes 

 rather nai*row, not broader above. Difficult to discriminate from 

 the next; best known by its bright scarlet pediceled flowers, callous- 

 nerved leaves, and the at length rather loose raceme. 



3. C. parviflora Bong. var. Douglasii. Indian Paint Brush. 

 Stems from base rather few; herbage villous-hirsute; leaves linear, 

 varying to linear-lanceolate or -oblong, entire or with a few linear- 

 laciniate lobes, 1£ to 2\ (or the lower even 3£) in. long; bracts petal-like 

 above, equally 3-parted or the middle lobe somewhat larger and 

 3-cleft at summit; spikes lax below; calyx-lobes colored red, rarely 

 yellow, laciniately 2-cleft at summit or to below the middle; corolla 

 straight, the galea about as long as tube, little or not at all exserted. — 

 (C. Douglasii Benth.) 



Wooded canons: Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. Common and 

 variable. Bracts variable in color, tipped with red, yellow, or white. 

 The bracts of the yellow form from the Oakland Hills are not cleft 

 to the middle. 



4. C. latifolia H. & A. Seaside Painted Cup. One-half to 



