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the plant as if it had been a real Ellisia. Mr. Nuttall's two 

 species seem good, and are now capable of clearer definition 

 than he gave them. 



E. chrysanthemifolia. 



One to three feet high, stoutish and widely branching, 

 very leafy; leaves ample and twice or thrice pinnatihd; 

 racemes short and close, not much surpassing the leaves; 

 calyx not stellate-spreading or accrescent in fruit; the lobes 

 ovate, acutish: corolla light blue: free seeds, oblong-oval, 

 corrugated, the concealed ones thin-meniscoid, smooth. 

 E. foliosa, Nutt., 1. c. Ellisia chrysanthemifolia, Benth. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc; A. DC. Prod. ix. 292; Gray, 1. c. in part. 



Common from San Francisco to San Diego, and on the 

 islands to Guadalupe. Mr. Nuttall's specific name for this 

 plant is good, but must yield before the prior one of Mr. 

 Bentham. 



E. paniculata, Nutt., 1. c. 



More slender than the last and less viscid: leaves fewer 

 and mostly once pinnatifid: racemes loose and elongated, 

 forming an ample panicle : calyx in fruit accrescent and 

 spreading; segments oblong-oval, obtuse: corolla yellowish: 

 free seeds more strongly corrugated than in the last; the 

 concealed ones less meniscoid and with distinct traces of 

 corrugation. 



Probably not common in California. The specimens now 

 in hand are all from Lower California where they were col- 

 lected by Mr. Orcutt recently; the collector not unnaturally 

 taking them for a new species of Ellisia. 



Phacelia floribunda. 



Annual; a foot or two high, widely branching; soft-hirsute 

 throughout, and minutely glandular; leaves two or three 

 inches long, one-third as wide, loosely bipinnately parted, 

 the ultimate lobes crenate: spikes very numerous, crowded 



