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lobes, the lobes i/o to 1^4 inches long, often a little downwardly curved, the petioles 

 broadly winged and conspicuously auriculate-clasping; racemes 2 to 5-flowered, 

 peduneled, boi-ne in leaf axils at the base of terminal 1-flowered peduncles ; corolla 

 deep purple or violet, paler outside, basin-shaped, the throat constricted just below 

 the top, the spreading limb 6 to 13 lines broad ; scales broad or semi-fanshaped, the 

 pairs slightly joined over the base of the filaments, diverging upward and wholly 

 adnata, slightly toothed or eiliate; capsule globose, 6-seeded, the seeds globose, 

 foveolate-reticulate. 



Moist shady places in the foothills, 100 to 3000 feet : Coast Ranges (mostly near 

 the coast) from Marin Co. to San Luis Obispo Co. ; east side of the San Joaquin Val- 

 ley; Sierra Nevada foothills from Calaveras Co. to Kern Co. ; cismontane Southern 

 California. Mar.-May. 



Field note. — The foliage leaves spread horizontally and are remarkably rigid for an Ellisia. 

 This feature seems useful to the climbing habit and is complementary to the weak stems. The 

 bractlets of the calyx are reflexed during anthesis but spread rotately in the fruiting phase. 



The corolla, sometimes deep purple, sometimes pale blue and bordered by a narrow whitish 

 zone at base, attracts the interest of the botanical traveler, both for its structural peculiarities 

 and its pleasing color tones. WhOe California was still a province of Spain, the young beauties 

 of the Spanish people at Santa Barbara decorated dresses for festivals with the flowers of this 

 species, which readily cling to fabrics by their hooked spines. 



Locs. — Coast Ganges: Angel Isl., Marin Co., Chesnut ; Sycamore Caiion, Mt. Diablo, Bower- 

 man 722 ; Niles Canon, Alameda Co., Chesnut 4' Drew ; Stanford, C. F. Baker 399 ; San Jose 

 Caiion near Carmel Bay, E. Ferguson 324; Mt. San Luis, Summers. San Joaquin Valley (east 

 side): Stockton, Sanford 188; Modesto, Hoover 369; Tulare, Davy. Sierra Nevada foothOls 

 Telegraph City (3 mi. ne.), Calaveras Co., Mutter 126; Columbia, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 679 

 Knights Ferry, ne. Stanislaus Co., Hoover 781; Mariposa Creek, Mariposa Co., Constance 2128, 

 Kelshaw Corners (3 mi. sw.), Madera Co., Constance 2201; Tollhouse, Fresno Co., Constance 

 2214; betw. Dunlap and Pinehurst, s. Fresno Co., Newlon 147 ; Limekiln Creek, Tulare Co., Jepson 

 2790; Kernville, T. Brandegee. Cismontane S. Cal.: Los Alamos, n. Santa Barbara Co., Jepson 

 8449; Santa Barbara, Jepson 9120; Monrovia Canon, San Gabriel Mts., Peirson 441; Santa Cata- 

 lina Isl. (Erythea 7:142) ; San Clemente Isl., Murbarger 7; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King ; Mt. 

 Soledad near La JoUa, San Diego Co., Newlon 317. 



Kefs. — Ellisia aumta Jepson. Nemophila aurita Lindl., Bot. Eeg. t. 1601 (1833), type 

 from Cal., Douglas; Sweet, British PI. Gard. n. ser. 4: t. 338 (1838) ; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 434 

 (1901), ed. 2, 337 (1911), Man. 812 (1925). Viticella aurita Mcbr., Contrib. Gray Herb. 59:29 

 (1919). Fholistoma auritum Lilja, Bot. Notiser 1839:40 (1839). 



3. E. racemosa (Nutt.) Jepson comb. n. Stems weak, simple or branched, 

 % to 11/3 feet long; herbage hispid or bristly-hispid, the stems retrorsely so with 

 the short thorn-like bristles scattered ; leaf -blades round-ovate in outline, mostly 

 very coarse, 1 to 2 inches long, pinnately parted, the ovate or oblong lobes entire 

 or toothed ; flowers solitary on a terminal peduncle, its basal leaf with a 2 to 5-flow- 

 ered raceme in its axil; corolla white to lavender, open-campanulate, 2 to 3 lines 

 wide, IV2 times as long as the calyx ; scales narrow, the pairs joined at base, at apex 

 with 2 or 3 free laciniae; capsule globose, shorter than the calyx, 1 to 8-seeded; 

 seeds angular-subglobose, foveolate. 



Hillslopes and ravines, 50 to 800 feet : Santa Barbara Islands ; coastal San 

 Diego Co. South to Lower California. Mar.-Apr. 



Locs. — Santa Barbara Isls. : Prisoners Cove, Santa Cruz Isl., Maiel Peirson ; Avalon, Santa 

 Catalina Isl., Condit ; San Clemente Isl., Murbarger 76b. San Diego coast: Mt. Soledad, Newlon 

 282 ; San Diego, T. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Ellisia racemosa Jepson. Nemophila racemosa Nutt.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 

 315 (1875), type loc. San Diego, Nuttall; Jepson, Man. 812 (1925). Viticella racemosa Mcbr. 

 Contrib. Gray Herb. 59:30 (1919). 



4. EUCRYPTA Nutt. 



Annuals. Leaves once to three times pinnately divided or dissected or toothed. 

 Petioles, except the lowest, auriculate-dilated at base. Calyx deeply parted, its 

 lobes elliptic or oval, accrescent, without appendages. Flowers in loose axillary and 

 terminal racemes. Corolla white or purple, bowl-shaped, nearly equaling to twice 



