494 HYDROPHYLLACEAE 



12. Phacelia cicutaria Greene. Caterpillar Phacelia. Fig. 4071. 



Phacelia cicutaria Greene, Pittonia 5: 20. 1902. 

 Phacelia heterosepala Greene, op. cit. 21. 



Annual, 2-6 dm. tall from a slender taproot, densely hispid and hispidulous throughout, and 

 somewhat glandular ; stems simple or branched, erect or ascending. Lower leaves alternate, oblong- 

 ovate to ovate, 4-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, pinnate, the usually 5-9 oblong to ovate-lanceolate 

 divisions incised or toothed, the petiole slender, usually shorter than the blade ; cauline leaves like 

 the basal, but shorter-petiolate ; flowers numerous, short-pedicellate in dense, few-branched cymes, 

 the cymes 5-15 cm. long, erect in fruit ; calyx-lobes linear or slightly dilated at apex, 6-8 mm. long, 

 0.5-1 mm. broad, densely bristly-hispid, up to 1 cm. long in fruit; corolla yellowish white, broadly 

 campanulate, deciduous, 8-12 mm. long and broad, the lobes obovate, 4-5 mm. long, the whole 

 longer than the calyx ; stamens about equaling the corolla or slightly exserted, 8-12 mm. long, the 

 filaments glabrous, the anthers oblong, about 1 mm. long ; scales conspicuous, the free portion oval ; 

 style about as long as the stamens, cleft about to the middle ; capsule ovoid-globose, 3-4 mm. long, 

 sparsely hispid; seeds 2-4, 2.5-3 mm. long, dark brown, coarsely foveolate. 



Rocky stream banks, Transition Zone; Sierra Nevada foothills from Butte County to Kern County, California. 

 Type locality: Knights Ferry on the Stanislaus River. March-May. 



Phacelia cicutaria var. hispida (A. Gray) J. T. Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 120. 1942. {Phacelia 

 ramosissima var. hispida A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 10: 319. 1875; P. hispida A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 

 21; 161. 1878. Not Buckl. 1862; P. eximia Eastw. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 204. 1905; P. hispida v.ir. hetiophila 

 J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49:29. 1917.) Plants usually widely branched; leaves merely incised to 

 pinnate and the divisions incised; inflorescence paniculately branched and rather lax; calyx-lobes conspicuously 

 dilated; flowers longer-pedicellate; corolla lavender; scales wholly adnate; capsule globose, 3 mm. long; seeds 

 usually 4, 1.5-2 mm. long. Coast Ranges of central California, throughout cismontane southern California to 

 Lower California. Type locality: Mount Wilson, California. 



Phacelia cicutaria var. Hubbyi (J. F. Macbride) J. T. Howell, Leaflets West. Bot. 3: 120. 1942. (Phacelia 

 hispida var. Hubbyi J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49:29. 1917; P. tanacetifolia var. Hubbyi Jepson & 

 Hoover in Jepson, Fl. Calif. 3: 258. 1943.) Inflorescence shaggy-hirsute, the cymes dense. Santa Barbara 

 County to northern Los Angeles County, California. Type locality: Ojai Valley, Ventura County. 



13. Phacelia cryptantha Greene. Limestone Phacelia. Fig. 4072. 



Phacelia hispida var. brachyantha Coville, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 4: 158. 1893. 



Phacelia cryptantha Greene, Pittonia 5: 21. 1902. 



Phacelia eremica Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 823. 1925. 



Phacelia cryptantha var. derivata Voss, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 33: 174. 1935. 



Annual, 1-5 dm. tall from a slender taproot, short-glandular-pubescent and hispid, the inflo- 

 rescence densely hispid ; stems branching widely, erect or ascending, forming low, rounded tufts. 

 Lower leaves alternate, oblong-oval, 3-9 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. broad, pinnate or pinnatifid, the 

 usually 7-11 divisions oblong to oval, remote, toothed, the slender petiole usually shorter than the 

 blade ; cauline leaves like the basal ; flowers numerous, on short but slender pedicels, in lax, simple 

 or few-branched cymes, the cymes 2-10 cm. long, erect in fruit; caly.x-lobes linear-oblanceolate 

 (a filiform claw but broadly dilated above), 4-7 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. broad, up to 10 mm. long, 

 1 .5 mm. broad in fruit, hispid ; corolla lavender, campanulate-funelform, deciduous, 4-7 mm. long, 

 3-4 mm. broad, the lobes obovate, 2-3 mm. long, the whole about as long as the calyx ; stamens 

 included, 3-4 mm. long, the filaments glabrous, the anthers oval, about 0.5 mm. long ; scales adnate, 

 inserted in the upper part of the tube, with or without a free, acute tip ; style included, 3-4 mm. 

 long, hispid at base, cleft more than one-half ; capsule globose, 2 mm. long, hispid ; seeds 4, ovoid, 

 1 . 5-2 . 5 mm. long, dark brown, foveolate. 



Moist canyons of arid desert ranges, Sonoran Zones; Death Valley and Mojave and Colorado Deserts, Cali- 

 fornia, to Nevada and Arizona. Type locality: Surprise Canyon, Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California. 

 April-May. 



14. Phacelia vallis-mortae Voss. Death Valley Phacelia. Fig. 4073. 



Phacelia vallis-mortae Voss, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 33: 175. 1935. 



Annual, 1-4 dm. tall from a slender taproot, sparsely hispid, and glandular-pubescent through- 

 out ; stetTis weak, reclining, branching. Lower leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, 3-6 cm. long, 2-5 cm. 

 broad, pinnate, the 7-9 oblong or lanceolate divisions incised, toothed, or entire, the petiole slender, 

 usually shorter than the blade ; cauline leaves like the basal but shorter-petiolate ; flowers rather 

 few, short-pedicellate in few-branched or simple cymes, the cymes 2-6 cm. long, erect in fruit ; 

 calyx-lobes linear-oblanceolate, 4-6 mm. long, . 5-1 mm. broad, densely bristly-hispid, up to 1 cm. 

 long in fruit ; corolla lavender, broadly campanulate, deciduous, 6-10 cm. long, 8-12 mm. broad, the 

 lobes obovate, 4-5 mm. long, the whole longer than the calyx; stamens shorter than to about 

 equaling the corolla, 4-8 mm. long, the filaments glabrous, the anthers oblong, about 1 mm. long; 

 scales conspicuous, with slender, free tips, the transverse portion inconspicuous ; style about equal- 

 ing the corolla, 6-10 mm. long, parted to below the middle ; capsule ovoid-globose, 3-3.5 mm. long, 

 hirsutulous ; seeds usually 4, ovoid, about 3 mm. long, brown, foveolate. 



Arnong desert shrubs, Sonoran Zones; desert regions of southeastern California to southern Utah and north- 

 ern Arizona. Type locality: Keene's Spring, Amargosa Range, Death Valley, California. April-June. 



15. Phacelia malvaefolia Cham. Stinging Phacelia. Fig. 4074. 



Phacelia malvaefolia Cham. Linnaea 4: 494. 1829. 



Eutoca loasaefolia Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17:277. 1835. 



Phacelia loasaefolia Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 143. 1859. 



Annual, 3-9 dm. tall from a taproot, densely bristly-hispid and finely pubescent throughout ; 



