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corolla longer than the calyx; filaments exceeding the tube; appendages linear, the free edge 

 hairy, or obsolete ; style 2-3 mm. long, conspicuously exserted from the calyx ; seeds 2-4, brown 

 or greenish, about 1.8 mm. long, smooth or minutely roughened; cucullus usually shallow, 

 deciduous. 



Light shade under trees or brush, Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; west slope of the southern Sierra 

 Nevada, California. Type locality: Salt Creek, Kaweah, Tulare County. April-June. 



Nemophila pulchella var. grScilis (Eastw.) Constance, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 19: 394. 1941 {Ncmophila 

 gracilis Eastw. Bull. Torrev Club 28: 154. 1901.) Very diffuse; most of the leaves alternate, shallowly lobed or 

 toothed; corolla white, rotate, smaller, scarcely exceeding the caly.x; style 1-1.5 mm. long barely exserted from 

 the calyx; seed usually solitary. Mariposa County to Kern County, California, in the Upper bonoran Zone. 

 Type locality: "near Fresno," Fresno County, California. 



Nemophila pulchella var. fremontii (Elmer) Constance, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 19: 395. 1941. (Nemo- 

 phila fremontii Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41: 319. 1906.) Leaves all opposite, the lowest forming a conspicuous rosette; 

 pedicels short; auricles 0.5 mm. long or represented by a few reflexed bristles or none; corolla senii-rotate, approxi- 

 mately equaling the calyx; corolla-scales reduced to hairy lines; style 0.5-1 mm. long, not exserted from the calyx; 

 seeds usually 2-4. Light shade of the Upper Sonoran Zone; Tehachapi Mountains and Kern River Canyon, around 

 the southeastern end of the San Joaquin Valley and north in the Inner Coast Ranges to Stanislaus and Monterey 

 Counties, California. Type locality: Fremont's Peak, San Benito County, California. 



4. EUCRYPTA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 159. 1847. 



Branched, viscid, scented, hispid, erect or diffuse annual herbs from slender taproots. 

 Lowest leaves opposite, the others alternate, pinnately divided, petiolate, or the catiline 

 sessile or clasping. Flowers several in open, terminal or axillary cymes, the pedicels 

 filiform. Calyx divided one-half to two-thirds, the sinuses naked. Corolla white, yellow- 

 ish, or blue, deciduous, campanulate, shallowly lobed, longer than the calyx. Stamens 

 included, equal and equally inserted on the corolla; appendages minute or none and a 

 V-shaped transverse fold between each pair of filaments near the throat. Style shortly 

 bifid. Mature capsule unilocular (appearing falsely 5-locular), globose, or ovoid, ex- 

 ceeded by the enveloping or stellate-spreading, slightly accrescent calyx, loculicidally 

 dehiscent. Ovules several on both surfaces of the two large parietal placentae, which are 

 attached to the capsule wall by a dorsal ridge and their edges. Seeds usually 5-15, dimor- 

 phic (the internal, lenticular and smooth; the external, terete and corrugated) or homo- 

 morphic (all corrugated), brown or black. [Name Greek, meaning well and hidden, re- 

 ferring to the extra, concealed seeds.] 



A genus of 2 species of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico. Type species, Eucrypta panicu- 

 lata Nutt. 



Mature calyx stellate-rotate beneath the capsule, the lobes spreading; seeds dimorphic. 1. E. chrysanthemi{olia. 



Mature calyx campanulate, its lobes erect and enclosing the capsule; seeds homomorphic, vermiform. 



2. E. micrantha. 



1, Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia (Benth.) Greene. Common Eucrypta. Fig. 4058. 



Ellisia chrysanthemifolia Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 247. 1834. 



Eucrypta paniculata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 159. 1847. 



Eucrypta foliosa Nutt. loc. cit. 



Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1 : 200. 1885. 



Ellisia Torreyi \ar. Orcuttii A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 1. 2^: 413. 1886. 



Usually erect, stout, 1-4 dm. tall. Lower leaves oblong to broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 2-5 cm. 

 broad, pinnatifid, the 9-13 oblong-lanceolate lobes again 1-2-pinnatifid with mostly obtuse teeth, 

 the upper leaves narrower and less divided, auriculate-clasping at base; flowers usually 8-15, 

 the pedicels usually recurving in fruit; calyx-lobes obtuse, 1-2 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad; 

 corolla 5-8 mm. broad, yellowish white, the lobes orbicular, corolla-tube longer than the calyx ; 

 style 1-1.5 mm. long; capsule 2-4 mm. in diameter; each placenta with 2 ovules on each surface 

 so that 8 are produced in each capsule; seeds dimorphic, the internal oval or orbicular and 

 meniscoid, smooth, 1-1.5 mm. long, the external oblong-ovoid, terete, corrugated, 0.8-1 mm. 

 long, both dark brown. 



Under rocks or brush. Arid Transition and Sonoran Zones; central Coast Ranges of California to the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, the Santa Barbara Islands, and Lower California. Type locality: California. March- 

 June. 



Eucrypta chrysanthemifolia var. bipinnatifida (Torr.) Constance, Lloydia 1: 147. 1938. (Phacelia 

 micrantha var. f bipinnatifida Torr. Ives Rep. 21. 1860; Ellisia Torreyi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 20: 302. 

 1885.) Weak and diffuse; lowest leaves 2-4.5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. broad, pinnately divided into 7-9 oblong lobes, 

 these shallowly pinnatifid, with rounded divisions; flowers usually 4-8; corolla 2-3 mm. broad, equaling to slightly 

 longer than the calyx; capsule 2-3 mm. in diameter. Deserts of southeastern California to Nevada, Arizona, and 

 Lower California. Type locality: Yampai Valley, Sitgreaves Pass, Black Mountains, Arizona. 



2. Eucrypta micrantha (Torr.) Heller. Desert Eucrypta. Fig. 4059. 



Phacelia micrantha Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 144. 1859. 

 Phacelia pinetorum M. E. Jones, Zoe 4: 279. 1893. 

 Ellisia micrantha Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^51: 42. 1913. 

 Eucrypta micrantha Heller, Muhlenbergia 2: 163. 1906. 



Weak and diffuse, 0.5-2.5 dm. tall, the stems often stipitate-glandular. Lower leaves oblong 

 or oval, 1-3 cm. long, 0.5-2 cm. broad, pinnatifid. the 7-9, oblong or spatulate, often falcate 

 divisions entire or few-toothed, the upper leaves auriculate-clasping at base ; flowers 4-12 on 

 each branch of the inflorescence, the pedicels usually erect in fruit ; calyx-lobes oblong to spatu- 



