SOME CALIFORNIAN SPECIES OF PHACELIA. 55 



this a dense almost plush-like short indument: leaves 

 pinnately divided, the lowest with about three pairs of 

 pinnse, a third the size of the terminal elliptic-lanceolate 

 segment, this 2 inches long or more; pubescence of all the 

 leaves appressed: corolla small, campanulate, dull yellowish, 

 subpersisteut: lobes of fruiting calyx very narrowly elliptic- 

 lanceolate, sparingly hispid, and with a distinct midvein as 

 well as equally prominent short transverse veinlets: capsule 

 small, broadly ovate, acute, strigose-hispidulous and slightly 

 pubescent, 2-seeded: seeds red-brown, ovate-lanceolate, 

 deeply favose. 



Var. ampliata. Less robust, seldom 2 feet high, and 

 with several basal branches half as tall as the main stem and 

 equally floriferous almost throughout, the numerous racemes 

 more slender and less virgately arranged: lowest leaves 

 occasionally simple, or with few pinn?e; the pubescence of 

 these shorter, denser and more canescent. 



Var. (?) Bernardina. Strict and simple like the type, 

 but basal leaves and lower part of stem very hispid with 

 somewhat deflexed hairs, the shorter and softer pubescence 

 scanty or wanting: calyx segments larger and ampler, oblan- 

 ceolate, obtusish, hispid-ciliate, scarcely veiny. 



The type of this species is a common plant of northern 

 California and adjacent Oregon, and is well illustrated in my 

 number 832 of the collection of 1876. It ranges southward, 

 along the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada well toward 

 Donner Lake; but further eastward, as in the Washoe 

 Mountains, it takes on the remarkable form described as 

 var. ampliata. I doubt if either this variety or the type 

 may prove to have any geographic or genetic connection 

 with the plant of similar habit, which Mr. Parish finds 

 near San Bernardino. This is more likely to prove quite 

 distinct. None of these have any' close relationship with the 

 Patagonian " P. circinata,^^ to which they have been, 

 referred; and the same remark applies equally to the next 

 namely : 



P. mutabilis. Biennial, erect, slender, 10 to 18 inches 

 high, not much branched, sparingly leafy, the radical leaves 

 few and ascending, not forming a depressed tuft, sparsely 



