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known" which "may well be only a form of this [P. gymno- 

 clada^ perhaps not collected in that district." 



Under date of June 26, 1896, M. L. Fernald of the Gray 

 Herbarium writes; " Yours is the first material we have had 

 since the type of Phacelia Cooperae and there can be no 

 doubt that it is distinct from P. gymnoclada, Torr." 



From this it would appear that P. Cooperae must have a 

 limited range, or surely others would have collected it since 

 June 1, 1886. I first found a small specimen in Santa Bar- 

 bara in 1895 and subsequently a moderate number of better 

 specimens in the Ojai Valley, Ventura Co., Cal., although 

 seeming somewhat rare. This season it was considerably 

 more plentiful in the Ojai and apparently well established 

 along most of the streams of that valley. It is confined 

 usually to sandy bars along stream- beds, blooming in May. 

 It varies from four or five to fifteen inches in height, vigor- 

 ous specimens much branched from the base and spreading, 

 but " primary branches " not " decumbent " as in P. gymno- 

 clada. 



It is worthy of remark that I have but once seen it away 

 from the near vicinity of streams and that was in a field, re- 

 cently freed by burning from Adenostoma fasciculatum, per- 

 haps two hundred yards from the San Antonio Arroyo. The 

 persistence of seeds and their quick germination in such 

 burned localities is always very surprising. No trace of P. 

 Cooperae was found in the adjoining uuburned tracts of 

 Adenostoma though clear spaces were frequent, sufficient to 

 give ample opportunity. 



P. Cooperae seems to be well established in the Ojai Val- 

 ley and probably extends through a limited portion of the 

 Coast ranges perhaps from Point Conception to Ventura. If 

 of wider range it is to be hoped other observers will report it. 



It is one of the prettiest of the small-flowered Phacelias 

 with its profusion of pink yellow-throated flowers and should 

 be worthy of cultivation. Specimens were sent to the Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, San Francisco, in 1895 and again this sea- 

 son, as well as to the Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass. — 

 Frank W. Hubby, Cleveland, O., June 29, 1896 



