COULTER'S SNAPDRAGON.
Antirrhinum Coulterianum, Benth. Figwort Family.
Stems.—Two to four feet high; smooth below. Leaves.—Linear to oval; distant. Tendril-shoots long and slender, produced mostly below the flowers. Flowers.—White or violet; in densely crowded villous-pubescent spikes, two to ten inches long. (Otherwise as A. vagans.) Hab.—Santa Barbara to San Diego.
The flowers of this pretty snapdragon are usually white, and the lower lip, with its great palate often dotted with dark color, takes up the major part of the blossom. They are sometimes violet, however, when they much resemble the flowers of the toad-flax, but are without their long spur.
A. Orcuttianum, Gray, is a similar species, but more slender, with fewer and smaller flowers, whose lower lip is not much larger than the upper, and whose flower-spikes are disposed to have the tortile branchlets in their midst. This is found near San Diego and southward.