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flexed subulate lobe one-half to one-third shorter; peduncles 2-3 inches long, 

 or about twice the length of the leaves (rarely equal), 3-6 flowered; flowers 

 large, three-quarters to one inch loug, calyx ten-nerved, obliquely tubular - 

 campanulate; teeth shorter than the tube, two upper slightly shorter, banner, 

 purple blue; the short wings and keel whitish; staminal sheath very oblique; 

 stigma finely villous, a line or so on both sides; pod glabrous, one inch or 

 more in length, flat linear-oblanceolate, narrowing to a short stipe; 12-14 

 seeded. 



Mr. Samuel Brannan, Jr., placed in the Academy Herb, a new plant col- 

 lected by him on the top of Granite Mount, Oak Creek, Kern County, April 

 1st, 1871. 



Phacelia Brannani. K. 



A low spreading annual, four inches to a span high, much br-anched from 

 the base, densely minute canescent puberulent throughout, and viscid villous- 

 glandular above; racemes scorpoid, becoming opposite the upper leaves; 

 leaves oblong in outline — 2-3 inches long, Y^-% inch broad — petiole %-% the 

 length, bipinnate, lobes subsessile, few pinnatifid above, oblong, crenate and 

 incisely-crenate toothed or subpinnatifid with roundish lobules of variable 

 size and order; corolla open funnel form with a broad campanulate border; 

 lobes rounded, bright blue, genitals included; filaments naked, somewhat in- 

 folded at the base; style shortly bifid, hirsute below; calyx lobes shorter than 

 the tubes, spatulate-linear, about twice the length of the oval hirsute capsule; 

 seeds oblong, compressed, centre depressed, the thickened margin transversely 

 corrugated; about 12-seeded. 



Lathyrus spiendens. K. 



Stem-climbing, perennial, quadrangular, somewhat striate, snbpubescent, 

 mostly glabrous, often glaucous; leaflets about eight, scattered, very variable, 

 linear to lanceolate and ovate-lanceolate or oblong on the same specimens, 

 acute, mucronate, strongly three to five-nerved and veined, reticulate, glab- 

 rous above, rarely subpubescent beneath, petiolules hirsute; common petioles 

 about equal, subtrigonal, slightly channeled above or margined, puberulent, 

 relatively stout, tendrils two to five-parted; stipules small, semi-saggitate and 

 semi-lunate, upper longer lobe acuminate, subfalcate, entire, or rarely lacin- 

 iate, notched or toothed, lower mostly repanddeutate; peduncles stout, about 

 equal, rarely becoming a little longer than the leaves, seven to ten-flowered, 

 flowers very large, scarlet-purple, pedicels pubescent, two to three times the 

 length of the calyx, articulated; calyx obliquely campanulate, pubescent, 

 eighteen-nerved, upper teeth remote, very short, triangular-acute; the lateral, 

 sublanced nearly twice as long as the upper, and a third less than the lower 

 subulate tooth, which is about equal to the tube; banner about one inch in 

 length and nearly as broad, emarginate, reflexed; keel an inch or more in 

 length by half an inch in depth, acute or subacute; wings narrow, shorter; 

 style clavate, somewhat flattened and folded, or grooved on the outside next 

 to the keel, villous along the inside, one-third to one-half its length ; pods 

 three inches in length, glabrous, compressed, symmetrical, 10 to 20 seeded, 



