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Descriptive Flora 



Lithospermum Unearifolium Goldie. Puccoon. Gromwell. 



Leafy plants 6 to 12 inches high, sparingly branched at the 

 thick red roots and having tubular, yellow flowers with 5 frilled 

 lobes in leafy clusters at the end of the stems. Leaf -blades about 

 2 inches long, narrow, entire, covered with white hairs. Corolla 

 tubular, % to 1 inch long, orange-yellow, with 5 rounded, frilled 

 lobes. Calyx lobes about 14 inch long, narrow, hairy. Late 

 February, March and April. Dry, rocky hills and hillsides. 

 Common. 



Lifhospermum mirabile Small. 



Similar to the above species but basal leaves are narrowly 

 oblanceolate to spatulate, stem leaves narrowly oblong (% to 

 iy 2 " long), blunt at the tips, and corolla lobes entire. Not com- 

 mon. 



Onosmodium bejariense DC. False Gromwell. 



Stout-stemmed, almost bristly hairy plants tipped with coiled 

 clusters of drooping, tubular, greenish-white, 5-lobed flowers, 1 

 inch or less long. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades oblong, en- 

 tire, strongly veined, hairy, dark green above, lighter underneath. 

 Corolla 5-lobed at the tip, the lobes greenish and tips turned in- 

 ward and closing around the threadlike pistil which extends 

 about 14" beyond the tube. Stamens 5, inclosed within the 

 corolla and fastened to the upper part of the inner wall. April, 

 May and June. In shaded soil. 



This plant was first collected at San Antonio. The specific 

 name was given for "San Antonio de Bejar", the old name of 

 San Antonio. 



Onosmodium helleri Small. 



Similar to Onosmodium bejariense but corolla tube is shorter 

 (less than y 2 " or 8-10mm long), rachis slightly zigzag, leafy 

 bracts broad almost ovate, lobes of corolla longer (about as long 

 as the tube), and plant is not as tall and stout, ranging from 1 to 

 2 feet instead of 1 to 3 feet. 



