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HYDROPHYLLACEAE 



Shady places on wooded slopes in the foothills or in boulder pockets of desert 

 ranges, 10 to 3500 feet : South Coast Ranges (mostly the inner range) from Contra 

 Costa Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; San Joaquin Valley (along streams) ; Sierra 

 Nevada foothills from Stanislaus Co. to Kern Co.; Tehachapi Mts. ; Mohave and 

 Colorado deserts; cismontane Southena California. South to Lower California. 



Mar.-June. 



Locs. — Coast Eanges: Antioeh (foothills near), Davy 989; Corral Hollow, n. Mt. Hamilton 

 Eange, Jepson 9585 ; Evergreen, s. of San Jose, Davy 52 ; Jamesburg, Carniel Valley, Constance 



# Hoover 2054 ; Little Eabbit 

 Valley, San Benito Co., Jep- 

 son 16,131 ; Paso Robles, Con- 

 dit 4" White; Alcalde, sw. 

 Fresno Co., T. Brandegee. 

 San Joaqnin Valley : Oakdale 

 (4 mi. s.), Stanislaus Co., 

 Boover 337; Barris Hill. ne. 

 of Dinuba, B. P. Kelley ; Tu- 

 lare, Davy. Tehachapi Mts. : 

 Keene, MacFadden 59e ; Bena 

 sta. (e. of), Allison Krames. 

 Sierra Nevada foothills: La 

 Grange, Stanislaus Co., Boo- 

 ver 1706 ; Citrus Cove, Fresno 

 Co., I. T. WalJcer; Middle 

 Tule River, Tulare Co., Pur- 

 pus 5080 ; lower Kern Canon, 

 Greenhorn foothills, Allison 

 Krames. Inyo Co. : Johnson 

 Canon, Panamint Range, Jep- 

 son 19,781. Mohave Desert: 

 Waterloo Wash, Old Dad Mts., 

 Jepson 20,524; Granite Mts. 

 (sw. of Av.awatz Mts.), Jep- 

 son 17,293 ; Newberry (lava 

 sw. of), Neu-lon 511; Ord 

 Mt., Jepson 5871; Coolgardie 

 Yucca Mesa, Jepson 6629; 

 Hawes sta., Newlon 487; Wil- 

 low Sprs., 8 mi. w. of Rosa- 

 mond, Munz 10,029. Colorado 

 Desert: Cabezon, San Gorgo- 

 nio Pass, Parish; Mission 

 Creek, nw. of Garnet sta., 

 Clary 1616; Andreas Caiion, 

 San Jacinto Mts., Newlon 

 434 ; Deep Caiion, Santa Rosa 

 Mts., Clary 1617; Grapevine 

 Caiion, e. San Diego Co., T. 

 Brandegee. Cismontane S. 

 Cal. : Cuyama Valley, n. Santa 

 Barbara Co., Eastwood; Riv- 

 erside, Jepson; Cuyamaca 

 Mts., Neivlon 363; La JoUa, 

 Chandler 5129. 

 Eefs. — Ellisia membk-ivnacea Benth., Trans. Linn. Soc. 17:274 (1835), type from Cal., Doug- 

 las; Season, F\.W. Mid. Cal. i35 (1901), ed. 2,339 (1911), Man. 814, fig. 785 (1925). Macrocalyx 

 membranaceus Ktze., Rev. Gen. PI. 1:434 (1891). Nemophila metnbranacea Greene, Man. Reg. 

 S.F.Bay 252 (1S94). E. membranaceavaT.hastifoliaBTand; Engler, Pflzr. 4"'i:38 (1913), type 

 loc. Cedar Mt., Mt. Hamilton Range, Elmer 4438. Pholistoma membranaeeum Constance, Rhod. 

 42:39 (1940). 



2. E.aurita (Lindl.) Jepson comb. u. Fiesta Flower. Climbing Nemophila. 

 Stem weak and straggling, 2 to 6 feet long, angled or winged, the angles or wings, 

 and commonly the midribs of the leaves beneath, armed with retrorse prickles which 

 enable the plant to climb over other plants ; herbage puberulent ; leaf-blades 1 to 3 

 (or 6) inches long, coarsely, unequally and irregularly pinnately parted into 3 to 7 



Fig. 397. Ellisia membranacea Benth. a, fl. branch, X 1% ; 

 b, fl., X 7; c, pistil, X 22; d, gland, X 28. 



