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the foliage green or greenish; stem usually solitary, simple or branching only at the base, 

 ascending or erect. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate, 4-10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, 

 simple or pinnate with one or two pairs of small lateral leaflets at base, much smaller than 

 the terminal, all acute, prominently veined, the petiole stout, densely hispid, usually longer 

 than the blade; cauline leaves numerous, mostly ovate and entire; flowers numerous in dense 

 corymbose or subcapitate, scattered cymes, the cymes 2-8 cm. long, spreading in fruit ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate to oblanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad, densely glistenmg brownish- 

 hispid but green on the back, subequal, little enlarged in fruit ; corolla greenish white, 3-5 mm. 

 long, 3-4 mm. broad; stamens 7-9 mm. long, the filaments pubescent above the middle, the 

 anthers about 0.5 mm. long; style 6-9 mm. long, pubescent below; capsule globose-ovoid, 

 2-3 mm. long, hispid; seeds 1-4, ovoid, 1.5-2 mm. long, dark brown. 



Moist usually coniferous woods, Humid Transition Zone; Vancouver Island through western Washington 

 and Oregon to the Coast Ranges of central California (Santa Clara County). Type locality: "hills behind Oak- 

 land and Berkeley, Cal." April-July. 



Phacelia leptosepala Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 36: 676. 1909. Low, cespitose perennial; leaves narrowly 

 lanceolate; calyx-lobes linear, densely glistening brownish-hirsute. Moist rocky slopes, Boreal Zones; British 

 Columbia 'and the Cascade Range of Washington and northern Oregon; Olympic Mountains; east to Montana. 

 Type locality: Vermilion Lake, British Columbia. 



30. Phacelia mutabilis Greene. Changeable Phacelia. Fig. 4089. 



Phacelia mutabilis Greene, Erythea 4: 55. 1896. 



Phacelia magcllanica f. griseophylla Brand, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 4: 218. 1912. 



Phacelia nemoralis var. pseudo-hispida Brand, op. cit. 210. 



Phacelia calif ornica var. rubacea Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 820. 1925. 



Biennial or weakly perennial, 1-4.5 dm. tall from a slender taproot, appressed-hispid and 

 hirsutulous throughout, the foliage green or grayish; stems usually several, slender, ascending, 

 simple. Leaves thin, the lower weakly clustered, lanceolate to ovate, 1-8 cm. long, 1-3 cm. 

 broad, pinnate and the terminal leaflet much larger than the lateral, or entire, obtuse or acute, 

 not very conspicuously veined, the petiole slender, usually exceeding the blade; cauline leaves 

 scattered, mostly entire; flowers numerous in short, paniculate or racemose cymes, the cymes 

 1-5 cm. long, ascending in fruit; calyx-lobes linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 3-4 mm. long, 

 0.5-1 mm. broad, hispid and hirsutulous, in fruit 6-10 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. broad (or some 

 broadly dilated at the tip), often purplish; corolla deep lavender to yellowish white, 4-6 mm. 

 long, 4-5 mm. broad, often becoming entangled in the stamens and hence tardily deciduous; 

 stamens 6-8 mm. long, the filaments pubescent, the anthers about 0.5 mm. long; style 6-8 mm. 

 long, puberulent ; capsule ovoid, 2-3 mm. long, hirsute, acute ; seeds 1^, oblong-ovoid, 1 . 5-2 mm. 

 long, brown. 



Pine woods, Transition and Boreal Zones; Cascade Mountains, from Mount Rainier to Mount Shasta, thence 

 in the Coast Ranges to Glenn and Lake Counties, California; and in the Sierra Nevada to Kern County. Type 

 locality: "towards Castle Peak." June-Aug. 



31. Phacelia frigida Greene. Timberline Phacelia. Fig. 4090. 



Phacelia frigida Greene, Pittonia 4: 39. 1899. 



Phacelia dasyphytla Greene ex J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 49: 35. 1917. 



Phacelia heterophylla var. pygmaea Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 819. 1925. 



Cespitose perennial, 0.5-3 dm. tall from a branched caudex, coarsely hispid and hispidu- 

 lous throughout, the foliage greenish gray to white, coarsely hispid, the inflorescence hispid; 

 stems slender, several, decumbent or ascending. Lower leaves densely rosulate, mostly lan- 

 ceolate, 1.5-4 cm. long, 0.5-1 cm. broad, usually all entire, acute, prominently veined, the 

 petiole slender, usually longer than the blade ; cauline leaves few, entire, reduced ; flowers 

 numerous in dense paniculate to subcapitate cymes, the cymes 1-4 cm. long, ascending in fruit; 

 calyx-lobes linear, 3-5 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. broad, conspicuously hispid-ciliate, in fruit 

 6-8 mm. long, 0.5-1 mm. broad, often purplish; corolla lavender to white, 4-6 mm. long and 

 broad; stamens 6^8 mm. long, the filaments pubescent to glabrate, the anthers about 0.5 rnm. 

 long ; style about 8 mm. long, pubescent below ; capsule ovoid, about 3 mm. long, acute, hispid ; 

 seeds usually 1, lance-ovoid, about 2 mm. long, brown. 



Talus slopes in the high mountains, mostly above 7^000 feet. Boreal Zones; southern Sierra Nevada north to 

 Crater Lake, in the Cascade Mountains; White Mountains. Type locality: Mount Shasta. July-Sept. 



32. Phacelia corymbosa Jepson. Serpentine Phacelia. Fig. 4091. 



Phacelia magellanica f. ferruginea Brand, Pflanzenreich 4^^: 100. 1913. 



Phacelia calif ornica f. immunda J. F. Macbride, Contr. Gray Herb. No. 53: 18. 1918. 



Phacelia dasyphylla var. ophitidis J. F. Macbride, op. cit. 59: 32. 1919. 



Phacelia corymbosa Jepson, Man. Fl. PI. Calif. 820. 1925. 



Cespitose perennial, 1.5-4 dm. tall from a branched caudex, hispid and hispidulous through- 

 out, the stems and inflorescence glandular-puberulent, the foliage green or greenish; stems 

 several to numerous, erect or ascending, simple. Lower leaves densely rosulate, linear-lanceolate 

 to oblong, 2-7 cm. long, 0.6-1 cm. broad, entire or the larger with one or two pairs of smaller 

 leaflets at base, acute, prominently veined, the petiole slender, shorter to longer than the blade ; 

 cauline leaves few, entire, reduced ; flowers numerous in dense or open, corymbose cymes, the 

 cymes 2-8 cm. long, spreading in fruit; calyx-lobes narrowly lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 

 0.5-1 mm. broad, hispid, in fruit 6-10 mm. long, 1-2.5 mm. broad, sometimes unequal; corolla 

 white, 5-7 mm. long and broad ; stamens about 10 mm. long, the filaments pubescent to glabrate, 



