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158 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Phacelia curvipes Torr. in Wats. Bot. King Smv. 252 (1871). Type locality, 

 "foot-hills near Carson and Washoe Cities and on the Trinity Mountains, Nevada; 

 4,500-6,500 feet altitude." 



Near Willow Creek, Panainint Mountains (No. 779), and in the Tejon Mountains 

 (No. 1190). This plant waa found only in the Upper Sonoran zone. It is now known 

 at occasional localities from Fort Tejon northward, in the Sierra Nevada, to the 

 vicinity of old Fort Independence and at a few points eastward in the desert moun- 

 tains of eastern California and western Nevada. 



Phacelia fremontii Torr. Hot. Ives Exped. 21 (1800). Type locality, ''Yampai 

 Valley," on the line of the present Atlantic and Pacific Railway, near the border be- 

 tween Mohave and Yavapai counties, northwestern Arizona. 



Recorded in .Johnson (Nos. 511, 510), Willow Creek, and Mill Creek canons, Pana- 

 inint Mountains; and between Keeler and Crystal Spring. 



Phacelia heterosperma Parish, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 37 (1K88). Type locality, " in 

 wet sand, hanks of Bock Creek, borders of the Mojave Desert, Los Angeles Co., 

 Calif." 



Willow Creek Canon, Panamint Mountains (No. 814). This species may prove to 

 he one of the forms of P. lemmoni, and Dr. Gray has so referred it in his herbarium. 



Phacelia hispida Gray, Proe. Ainer. Acad. x. 319 (1875), as P. ramoshsima his- 

 pida; Gray, Syn. Fl.ii.pt. i. 101 (1878). Type locality, " Santa Barbara to San 

 Diego, California." 



In Johnson Canon, Panamint Mountains (Nos. 483,518), and in Shepherd Canon, 

 Argus Mountains (No. 733). 



Phacelia hispida brachyantha var. nov. 



Annual, commonly branching from the base, 1 to 3 cm. high, the stem and leaves 

 pubernlent and sparingly hispid ; leaves pinnatifld to pinnate, divisions oblong and 

 obtusely toothed; racemes rather densely flowered, on peduncles usually a little 

 longer than themselves; pedicels 2 to 4 rum., or the lowest sometimes 7 mm., long, 

 Sparingly hispid; calyx densely hispid, the lobes narrowly linear-oblanceolate, acute 

 to obtuse at the apex, filiform at the base, in flower about 5 nun., iu fruit reaching 10 

 mm., long; corolla campamilate-funuelform, pale purple, equaling the calyx lobes; 

 appendages 10 vertical, short, semi-ovate lamelhe inserted just below the middle of 

 the tube, at the base attached to the filament and forming a V-shaped pocket ; stamens 

 and style included, the latter cleft more than one-half its length, short-hispid below ; 

 ovary ovate, hispid above; ovules 4; capsule about 3 nun. long, globular-ovate, 

 abruptly short-pointed, pubernlent and sparingly hispid, dehiscence tardily loculi- 

 cidal by two valves; seeds 4, oblong, scrobiculate, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, quadrant i form 

 in transection; fruiting calyx campanulate in outline, pendent, deciduous, together 

 with the capsule, by the breaking of the pedicel. 



Phacelia hixpida has corollas one and one-half times to twice as long as the calyx 

 (therefore 8 to 10 mm. long), and exserted stamens and styles. Both forms are 

 adapted for seed dissemination in a peculiar manner. The recurved fruiting pedicel 

 is smaller at one point, and here it breaks at maturity. The calyx and capsule may 

 now be attached to the fur of passing animals by the divergent, hispid hairs of the 

 former, or, as they are light and airy, they may be blown along the surface of the 

 ground. The tardily dehiscent capsules retain the seeds long enough to scatter them 

 widely. 



Type specimen in the United States National Herbarium. No. 607, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected April 13, 1891, in Surprise Canon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo 

 County, California, by Frederick Funston. It was found also in Willow Creek 

 Canon, Panamint Mountains (No. 835), and specimens have been distributed here- 

 tofore under the name P. hispida from Thumb Butte, near Prescott, Arizona (Busby, 



