FIGWORT FAMILY. 



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1£ ft. high; herbage viscid-pubescent; leaves thick, oval or obovate, 

 mostly less than 1 in. long, or the upper larger and 3-lobed at apex; 

 bracts very short and broad (about 9 lines long and 5 lines wide) with 

 oblong lobes, the middle lobe twice as large as the lateral; calyx- 

 lobes broad, entire or notched at apex, almost equaling the corolla; 

 corolla small, about 8 lines long; lower lip very short. 



Sea cliffs and rocky headlands along the coast: San Francisco; 

 Monterey, etc. Aug. 



5. C. foliolosa H. & A. Woolly Painted Cup. Suffrutescent. 

 with many stems from the base, mostly 10 to 18 in. high, white- 

 woolly throughout; leaves linear and entire, rather crowded below 

 and fascicled in the lower axils, about 1 in. long or less, the upper 

 cauline and bracts 3-parted into linear lobes; bracts with lobes 

 spatulate-dilated at apex, the middle lobe largest and shallowly 

 3-lobed; spikes dense; flower about 9 lines long, only slightly curved; 

 galea protruding from calyx only 1 or 2 lines, shorter than or as long 

 as tube of corolla; calyx-lobes truncate or merely retuse; capsule 7 

 lines long; seeds bluish green. 



Dry Coast Range hills, mostly in rocky situations or on gravelly 

 soil, in some places exceedingly abundant, occupying many acres of 

 open hillside. Apr.-May. 



18. ORTHOCARPUS Nutt. Owl's Clover. 

 Annual herbs, or a few perennial species extra-limital. Leaves 

 alternate, incised or laciniate. the floral sometimes colored. Calyx 

 tubular or short-campanulate, 4-cleft, or cleft before and behind and 

 the divisions 2-lobed. Corolla tubular, the upper lip ("galea"} 

 similar to that of Castilleia, but not so greatly (or not at all) 

 exceeding the lower one. Lower lip 3-saccate, inflated, often very 

 conspicuous. Stamens 4; anthers in some species with but one cell. 

 (Greek orthos, upright, and karpos, fruit.) 



Corolla with moderately 3-saccate lower lip, the teeth or lobes conspicuous ; 

 bracts with colored tips. 

 Filaments glabrous; galea nearly straight, glabrous. 



Flowers whitish; spike slender, 3 in. long or more, lax below 



1. 0. attenuatus. 



Flowers dull white with purple marks; spike short and dense, 2 in. long 



or less 2. 0. castilleioides. 



Flowers purple; spikes dense, cylindric 3. 0. dtusiflont.". 



Filaments hairy; galea hooked at apex, bearded; flowers crimson 



4. 0. purpurasct ns. 



Corolla with conspicuously 3-saccate lower lip, much larger than the slender 

 and straight (but often longer) galea; bracts wholly herbaceous. 

 Stamens in anthesis exserted from the slightly folded galea; flowers 6 lines 

 long or less. 



Plants small and weak; flowers scattered, inconspicuous, dark red . . . 



5. 0. pusillus. 



Plants larger and more vigorous; flowers in mostly dense spikes, white 



or cream-color 6. 0. floribundus. 



Stamens not exserted from the involute-subulate galea ; flowers exceeding 

 l A in. 



Leaves dissected into linear segments; tube of corolla filiform. 



, Herbage greenish ; corolla yellow or pinkish white throughout 



7. O. faucibarbatu*. 



