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ovoid, 5-6 mm. long, acute, finely strigulose ; seeds 3-8, oblong-angled, about 2 mm. long, dark 

 brown, irregularly reticulate without long ridges. 



Open woods, often in granite soil, Boreal Zones; Gearhart Mountain, south central Oregon, through the Sierra 

 Nevada to Tulare County, California; also in adjacent Nevada. Type locality: Ebbetts Pass and near Lake 

 Tenaya, California. June-Aug. 



2, Phacelia procera A, Gray. Tall Phacelia. Fig. 4061. 



Phacelia procera A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 323. 1875. 



Perennial, 5-15 dm. tall, sparsely appressed-hirsutulous and glandular in the inflorescence; 

 stems simple, erect. Basal leaves ovate to lanceolate, 7-12 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, tapering into 

 a petiole of about equal length, toothed to pinnately incised or pinnatifid, the teeth or lobes 

 lanceolate, entire or incisely toothed ; cauline leaves alternate, numerous, like the basal but short- 

 petiolate; flowers numerous, subsessile in a rather dense, broad panicle of frequently geminate 

 cymes, 3-15 cm. long, the cymes ascending in fruit; calyx-lobes narrowly lanceolate, 3-5 mm. 

 long, 1-1.5 mm. broad, appressed-hirsute and glandular, scarcely accrescent; corolla greenish 

 white, deciduous, pelviform, 5-6 mm. long, 7-9 mm. broad, hairy within, the lobes ovate, 2-3 mm. 

 long, revolute, the whole slightly longer than the calyx ; stamens long-exserted, 8-10 mm. long, 

 the anthers oval, about 1 mm. long ; scales oblong, adnate, united over the base of the filaments ; 

 style about 10 mm. long, cleft about one-half ; capsule ovoid, 6-8 mm. long, acute, glandular- 

 hirsutulous ; seeds 12-16, about 2 mm. long, ovoid-angled, black, irregularly reticulate. 



Wet places in thickets and meadows. Boreal Zones; Cascade Mountains of Washington to the northern Coast 

 Ranges and Sierra Nevada of California, east to Idaho. Type locality: Sierra Nevada, Nevada and Sierra Coun- 

 ties, California. June-July. 



3. Phacelia sericea (Graham) A. Gray. Silky Phacelia. Fig. 4062. 



Eutoca sericea Graham, Bot. Mag. 56: pi. 3003. 1829. 



Fhaceha sericea A. Gray, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 34: 254. 1862. 



Phacelia lenta Piper, Bull. Torrey Club 28: 44. 1901. 



Phacelia sericea var. cacspitosa Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 107. 1913. 



Perennial from a woody root crown, or sometimes biennial, 1-4 dm. tall, densely silvery and 

 appressed-silky throughout, or the foliage greenish and subglabrate; stems simple, erect or 

 ascending from the base. Basal leaves alternate, oblong to oblong-ovai, 2-6.5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. 

 broad, tapering into a petiole of about equal length, pinnately lobed or pinnatifid, the lobes 

 oblong, entire or toothed; cauline leaves alternate, numerous, like the basal but short-petiolate 

 to sessile; flowers short-pedicellate, numerous, in a narrow, thyrsoid panicle of very short cymes, 

 2-15 cm. long, the cymes ascending in fruit; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, 

 3-4 mm. long, 0.5 mm. or less broad, hirsute at least marginally, nonaccrescent ; corolla bluish 

 purple to white, pelviform, marcescent, 5-6 mm. long, 6-8 mm. broad, hairy within, the lobes 

 ovate, 2-3 mm. long, the whole longer than the calyx; stamens long-exserted, 10-15 mm. long, 

 hairy at base, the anthers oblong-oval, less than 1 mm. long ; scales lanceolate to oblong, mem- 

 branaceous, free from the stamens ; style long-exserted, 6-8 mm. long, cleft one-third to one-half ; 

 capsule ovoid, 4-6 mm. long, acute, hirsute; seeds 8-18, oblong-ovoid, 1.5-2 mm. long, dark 

 brown to black, regularly reticulate, with longitudinal ridges. 



Talus slopes, Boreal Zones; Olympic and Cascade Mountains of Washington to the Blue, Steen, and Warner 

 Mountains of southern Oregon and northeastern California; also north and east from British Columbia and 

 Alberta to the Great Basin and the Rocky Mountains. Type locality: Rocky Mountains. June-Aug. 



4. Phacelia Bolanderi A. Gray. Bolander's Phacelia. Fig. 4063. 



Phacelia Bolanderi A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 322. 1875. 



Perennial, 3-12 dm. tall, appressed-hirsute to subglabrate and glandular throughout; stems 

 usually branched, decumbent or ascending from the base. Basal leaves alternate, oval, 6-10 cm. 

 long, 3-6 cm. broad, tapering or truncate, with a slender petiole of greater or equal length, 

 coarsely toothed or lobed, or pinnatifid at base with a pair of oblong lobes ; cauline leaves alternate, 

 numerous, like the basal but often short-petiolate ; flowers rather numerous, short-pedicellate in 

 broad cymes, 3-8 cm. long, the cymes spreading widely in fruit; calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, 

 6-7 mm. long, 1 .5-2 mm. broad, glandular-hispid on the margins, often slightly accrescent ; corolla 

 lavender, pelviform to subrotate, deciduous, about 10 mm. long, 10-20 mm. broad, the lobes 

 obovate, about 5 mm. long, the whole much longer than the calyx ; stamens slightly exserted, 

 about 10 mm. long, sparsely hirsute, the anthers oval, about 1 mm. long ; scales narrow, adnate ; 

 style slightly exserted, about 10 mm. long, cleft about two-thirds ; capsule ovoid, 6-8 mm. long, 

 acute, hirsute; seeds 30-60, irregularly cylindrical, 1-1.5 mm. long, light brown, foveolate. 



Moist banks, chiefly in the Redwood belt. Humid Transition Zone; coastal, from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Sonoma 

 County, California. Type locality: Cottonaby Creek, Mendocino County, California. May-June. 



5. Phacelia ramosissima Dougl. Branching Phacelia. Fig. 4064. 



Phacelia ramosissima Dougl. ex Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2: 21. 1830. 

 Phacelia decumbens Greene, Pittonia 5: 17. 1902. 



Perennial, 5-12 dm. tall, hispid, finely cinereous-pubescent and hirsute or hispid throughout 

 and glandular-viscid at least in the inflorescence ; stems several from the woody root crown, 

 usually diffuse, simple or widely branched. Basal leaves oblong to broadly ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 

 2-6 cm. broad, pinnate, the oblong or oval lobes toothed, incised, or once or twice pinnatifid, the 

 petiole usually much shorter than the blades ; cauline leaves like the basal but short-petiolate or 



